JSON.parse() gives error

Hi Daniel,

Using your code as the basis for mine this parsing came back with all of the objects in the JSON file as objects.

var xmlRequest = new XMLHttpRequest();
xmlRequest.onreadystatechange = function(){
  "use strict";
  if(xmlRequest.readyState === 4){
      var employees = JSON.parse(xmlRequest.responseText);
      console.log(employees);
  }
};
xmlRequest.open('GET', 'data/employees.json');
xmlRequest.send();

Bummer.

I'm still getting an error so it's either Dw and/or Chrome that's giving me an issue? Not sure what else I can do at this point so I appreciate you double checking this for me.

Daniel,

That code that I wrote was just in the Workspaces area using Chrome. You mentioned "Dw"—is that Dreamweaver? Are you doing this development locally on your computer? If you are, you'll want to make sure you're using some kind of local server to serve us this page because you can't make an AJAX call to a file that's using the file:// in the address to load, it'll have to be done over HTTP.

Windows or Mac, you might want to consider installing MAMP - https://www.mamp.info/. The free one is fine... but that'll let you run everything in a local server if you're not already doing that. There are some other solutions to do this which you might already be doing.

Sorry for the confusion Tim. I am uploading everything to my server, but using Dreamweaver to code. Again not really sure why I'm getting errors.

I feel comfortable with jQuery ajax and getting .html pages to load asynchronously but I have decided to give up for now on this JSON. Way to difficult for no reason at this point.

Thanks for the help bud.

That's a great idea! Thanks so much man. here's the link http://www.danielmdesigns.com/test/ajax-fewd/employee_status.html

Then, of course, the error: Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token ; in JSON at position 142

Let me know if you can spot where I'm messing up?

Oh okay... so within your status.json just remove the semi-colon you have at the very bottom that closes out the array.

wow. it returns an object.... JSON is so weird

thanks so much for your help bud