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JavaScript Asynchronous Programming with JavaScript Asynchronous JavaScript with Callbacks Implement a Callback

Posted by John Norris
John Norris
21,145 Points

Uncaught TypeError: callback is not a function at XMLHttpRequest.xhr.onload | callbacks.js:13

I receive the following error in the console when I click the button. I cannot figure out why. Please help. Thank you!

Uncaught TypeError: callback is not a function at XMLHttpRequest.xhr.onload | callbacks.js:13

const astrosUrl = 'http://api.open-notify.org/astros.json';
const wikiUrl = 'https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/summary/';
const peopleList = document.getElementById('people');
const btn = document.querySelector('button');

// Make an AJAX request
function getJSON(url, callback) {
  const xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
  xhr.open('GET', url);
  xhr.onload = () => {
    if(xhr.status === 200) {
      let data = JSON.parse(xhr.responseText);
      return callback(data); // Line 13
    }
  };
  xhr.send();
}

// Generate the markup for each profile
function generateHTML(data) {
  const section = document.createElement('section');
  peopleList.appendChild(section);
  section.innerHTML = `
    <img src=${data.thumbnail.source}>
    <h2>${data.title}</h2>
    <p>${data.description}</p>
    <p>${data.extract}</p>
  `;
}

//getJSON(astrosUrl);

btn.addEventListener('click', () => {
  getJSON(astrosUrl), (json) => {
    json.people.map( person => {
      getJSON(wikiUrl + person.name, generateHTML);
    });
  };
event.target.remove();
});

1 Answer

KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,968 Points

You have a couple of parentheses that need to be fixed in btn.addEventListener:

btn.addEventListener('click', () => {
  getJSON(astrosUrl), (json) => {
    json.people.map( person => {
      getJSON(wikiUrl + person.name, generateHTML);
    });
  };
event.target.remove();
});

There shouldn't be a closing parenthesis after astrosUrl here:

getJSON(astrosUrl), (json) => {

This leaves callback in getJSON() undefined - the cause of the error you receive.

There should be a closing parenthesis after } here:

  };
event.target.remove();