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JavaScript A Real World Example

Mary Paul
Mary Paul
13,792 Points

Getting "object, object" for all my employees in the widget (no reported errors)

So, I got the widget.js to display, but instead of employees it just says "object, object". Not quite what I'm going for. Thoughts?

snapshot of my workspace here: https://w.trhou.se/5jgqyc94mb

widget.js

function getJSON(url) {
  return new Promise(function(resolve, reject){
    var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
    xhr.open('GET', url);
    xhr.onreadystatechange = handleResponse;
    xhr.onerror = function(error){ reject(error); };
    xhr.send();

    function handleResponse() {
      if(xhr.readyState === 4) {
        if(xhr.status === 200){
          var employees = JSON.parse(xhr.responseText);
          resolve(employees)
        } else {
          reject(this.statusText);
        }
      }
    };

  });
}

var ajaxPromise = getJSON('../data/employees.json');



var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open('GET', '../data/employees.json');
xhr.onreadystatechange = handleResponse;
xhr.send();

function handleResponse() {
  if(xhr.readyState === 4 && xhr.status === 200) {
    var employees = JSON.parse(xhr.responseText);
    addEmployeesToPage(employees)
  }
};

function generateListItems(employees)  {
    var statusHTML = '';
    for (var i=0; i<employees.length; i += 1) {
        if (employees[i].inoffice === true) {
            statusHTML += '<li class="in">';
        } else {
            statusHTML += '<li class="out">';
        }
        statusHTML += employees[i].name;
        statusHTML += '</li>';
    }

    return statusHTML;
}

function generateUnorderedList(listItems) {
    return '<ul class="bulleted">' + listItems +  '</ul>';
}

function addEmployeesToPage(unorderedList) {
    document.getElementById('employeeList').innerHTML = unorderedList;
}



ajaxPromise.then(generateListItems)
  .then(generateUnorderedList)
  .then(addEmployeesToPage)
  .catch(function(e){
     console.log(e);
  });
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,275 Points

A great way to share code with multiple dependencies is to make a snapshot of your workspace and post the link to it here.

1 Answer

Abel Castillo
Abel Castillo
19,094 Points

Remove the repeated code, it already exist inside getJSON : var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest(); xhr.open('GET', '../data/employees.json'); xhr.onreadystatechange = handleResponse; xhr.send();

function handleResponse() { if(xhr.readyState === 4 && xhr.status === 200) { var employees = JSON.parse(xhr.responseText); addEmployeesToPage(employees) } };