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JavaScript AJAX Basics (retiring) jQuery and AJAX The Office Status Project Revisited

Andrei Punei
Andrei Punei
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Posted by Andrei Punei
Andrei Punei
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How do you get the values from the JSON file??

The file is named employees.json altough in the callback function nested in the each method we used employee as defining the JSON file??

carlos medina
carlos medina
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If you can provide employees.json so I can view how it's formatted I can supply a thorough expanation

1 Answer

Pedro Sousa
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Pedro Sousa
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Pedro Sousa
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Pedro Sousa
Python Development Techdegree Student 18,546 Points

Hello Andrei,

I'm not 100% sure if I understood your question, but here's my try.

Did you noticed the data on the employees.json is an array? (everything is inside [ ]'s ).

Therefore, we are using query's .each function which takes an array, and a callback. You can name the parameters of the callback whatever you want.

For every position on the array, jQuery will call the callback and give it the current position to the first parameter and the current value to the second one.

Hope this helps.

Cheers, Pedro