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JavaScript

Posted by Jonathan Hogg
Jonathan Hogg
9,142 Points

JSON files are not working but non-JSON files are

I'm doing a separate project and I have the following files (among others) in the same folder as my main Javascript file:

hello.js hello.json

When I run the get() function with hello.js, it works. When I run the get() function with hello.json, it does not work.

It shouldn't matter because I'm not actually parsing the data (the callback is just a console.log function), but I also validated that the data in hello.json was valid JSON data.

1 Answer

Alec Plummer
Alec Plummer
15,181 Points
Alec Plummer
Alec Plummer
15,181 Points

was this working for you?

$.get('/path/to/file', function(data) {
    console.log(data);
}, 'json');

if not, try something like this

$.getJSON('/path/to/file', function(data) {
    console.log(data);
});