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Print JSON string from URL

I'm using ajax to parse JSON data from a URL. I need to capture the parsed array into a variable. How would I go about this? Thanks
function rvOffices() {
$.ajax({
url:'https://api.greenhouse.io/v1/boards/roivantsciences/offices',
type:'GET',
data: JSON.stringify(data),
dataType: 'text',
success: function( data) {
// get string
}
});
}
rvOffices();
var rvOfficesString = // resultant string

You can use JSON.parse(data) to convert the desired output to JSON, and then access the objects and array indexes from within that with .object and [array_index] respectively:
function rvOffices() {
$.ajax({
url: 'https://api.greenhouse.io/v1/boards/roivantsciences/offices',
type: 'GET',
dataType: 'text',
success: function(data) {
var json_result = JSON.parse(data);
//console.log(json_result); // The whole JSON
console.log(json_result.offices[0].name);
}
});
}
rvOffices();
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
You also don't need to pass any data, as you're performing a GET request.
Hope this helps! :)

So I guess you are not sure about the ajax call, so lets break it..
Ajax call is a simply method to make a request to remote resource (Get/post/put...) the type of request (GET/POST) depends upon your need.
so if you have an endpoint that return simply data as in your case a simple get/post request is sufficient.
You can send addition data with request to get the data from endpoint (say id of resource (say person) whose other fields you want to get like name, age, address).
here is link for ajax request in jQuery
here is jQuery parse json parse json in jQuery
So for example:
// let's say when you call this function it will make post request to fixed end point and return data else null
function rvOffices() {
var res = null; // let be default null
$.ajax({
url:'https://api.greenhouse.io/v1/boards/roivantsciences/offices',
type:'GET', // type of request method
dataType: 'text', // type of data you want to send if any.
success: function( data) {
res = $.parseJSON(data); // will do the parsing of data returned if ajax succeeds (assuming your endpoint will return JSON data.)
}
});
return res;
}
// lets call the function
var rvOfficesString = rvOffices();
// print the value returned
console.log(rvOfficesString);
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

You can try something like: -
$.ajax({
url:'https://api.greenhouse.io/v1/boards/roivantsciences/offices',
type:'GET',
dataType: 'text',
success: function(response) {
// get string
window.temp = JSON.parse(response);
}
});

Writing specific value from database to HTML via AJAX/jQuery

First time question, hoping for some advice:
Code on webpage:
<form id="inbound" action="javascript:validateinbound();">
<input type="submit" value="Go!" id="inbound">
<script>
function validateinbound() {
$('#inbound:input').each(function () {
var iv = $(this).val();
$('#response').hide();
$('#mydiv').fadeIn(1200);
$('#mydiv').delay(1200).fadeOut(600);
$(function () {
$.ajax( {
url: 'validateinbound.php',
data: "variable="+iv,
dataType: 'json',
success: function(data) {
var response = JSON.stringify(data);
$('#response').delay(3600).fadeIn(600);
$('#response').append("<p>Answer: </p>"+response);
}
});
});
});
};
</script>
</form>
This returns a string that I would like to work with that looks like this:
Answer:
[{"id":"1","answer":"Pull logging","question_id":"5","feature_id":"1","answer_id":"9"}]
Ideally what I would like to do is only select the 'value' to the maxmail_answer 'key' (hopefully those are the right terms?) to the webpage instead. Right now there is only one value but there will be more in the future so something that could parse this string for a specific key and only output those values.
Visually I would see:
Answer: Pull logging ( and then another Answer: for each value I pull out )
First time ever using this site and these languages so total noob and would appreciate some guidance.
Thanks!

You do not to stringify the JSON response, you can get the value of the key you want using the object notation . as follows:
function validateinbound() {
$('#inbound:input').each(function () {
var iv = $(this).val();
$('#response').hide();
$('#mydiv').fadeIn(1200);
$('#mydiv').delay(1200).fadeOut(600);
$(function () {
$.ajax( {
url: 'validateinbound.php',
data: "variable="+iv,
dataType: 'json',
success: function(data) {
//var response = JSON.stringify(data); // no need for this line
$('#response').delay(3600).fadeIn(600);
// catch the answer here
// your result returns within an array so you need to catch the first index
$('#response').append("<p>Answer: </p>"+response[0].answer);
}
});
});
});
};
Besides, ids are unique, you can only access a single element via id selector #, you do not need a .each

What you are receiving from your server is an array of objects in the JSON format. The sample that you have put has the length of "1" and therefore, if want to reach the "id" of the first array, it would be like this:
// var response = JSON.stringify(data); (// don't stringify it!
$('#response').delay(3600).fadeIn(600);
$('#response').append("<p>Answer: </p>"+data[0].id);

You need here a loop to go through your array of results and display each result
success: function(data) {
var response = JSON.stringify(data);
$('#response').delay(3600).fadeIn(600);
$.each(response,function(index,value){//the each loop
$('#response').append("<p>Answer: </p>"+value.answer);//get the answer using . notation
});
}

Json.stringify() returns your javascript object as json data, but i think in your case your response is a json data which you need to manipulate. Json.parse() does this for you and you can access your answer as a property of the javascript object.
success: function(data) {
var response = JSON.parse(data);
$('#response').delay(3600).fadeIn(600);
$('#response').append("<p>Answer: </p>"+response[0].answer);
}
if your json data has multiple result and you need to work through all of them use a loop.
$.each(response,function(index, object){
var response = JSON.parse(data);
$('#response').delay(3600).fadeIn(600);
$('#response').append("<p>Answer: </p>"+object.answer);
});

First of all. Thank you to everyone who commented on this to help me get started in the right direction. I was able to get what I needed working!! Here is the solution:
<form id="inbound" action="javascript:validateinbound();">
<input type="submit" value="Go!" id="inbound">
<script>
function validateinbound() {
$('#controlpanel:input').each(function () {
var iv = $(this).val();
$('#response').html("");
$('#response').hide();
$('#mydiv').fadeIn(1200);
$('#mydiv').delay(1200).fadeOut(600);
$(function () {
$.ajax( {
url: 'validateinbound.php',
data: "variable="+iv,
dataType: 'json',
success: function(data) {
var newdata = JSON.stringify(data);
var response = JSON.parse(newdata);
$('#response').delay(3600).fadeIn(600);
$.each(response, function(array, object) {
$('#response').append("<p>Answer: </p>"+object.answer);
});
}
});
});
});
};
</script>
</form>
I needed to parse the data correctly. So I used JSON.stringify to get the data into a string that JSON.parse could use to manipulate the data. But function(index,object) wouldn't work because my output was not an index, but an array. So when changing to function(array,object) this allowed me to get my data just the way that I needed.
Again thanks to everyone for their help!

AJAX response into an object [duplicate]

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I have a stringified array of objects in a database that I'm retreiving with an $.ajax call. I'm trying to use a callback function to get that data into an array outside of my ajax function.
function getMap(){
return $.ajax({
url: "getMap.php",
type: "POST",
data: "",
dataType: 'JSON',
success: dataHandler
});
};
function dataHandler(data){
console.log(JSON.parse(data));
return JSON.parse(data);
}
var loadedMap = getMap();
console.log(loadedMap);
The console.log inside of the dataHandler function shows up in my Javascript console as a standard Array (clickable, can view all the data). The console.log at the very end shows up in the console as [object Object]. I can see the actual data inside of that object in a "responseJSON" field, but I can't seem to correctly get that into the loadedMap array.
What am I missing here?
Edit: I feel like my question is different from all of the answers to other questions. Mine seems to be more of a scope problem. A lot of the answers advocated the .done and .fail ways to handle AJAX.
var loadedMap = [];
function getMap(){
return $.ajax({
url: "getMap.php",
type: "POST",
dataType: 'JSON',
});
};
getMap().done(function(r) {
if (r) {
loadedMap = r;
} else {
console.log("No data");
}
}).fail(function(x) {
console.log("error");
});
console.log(loadedMap);
This code successfully gets the array where "loadedMap = r", but when you console.log the loadedMap on the outside, its undefined. How can we get the actual data to be outside the AJAX functions?

The function getMap does not return the response, it just calls dataHandler when the response arrives.
create a global variable and assign the vallue of the JSON.parse(data) to that variable. :
var myData;
function getMap(){
...
});
};
function dataHandler(data){
console.log(JSON.parse(data));
myData = JSON.parse(data);
}
getMap();

JQuery's AJAX returns a promise, so you can either go the callback route, as it looks like you were trying to do, or you can simplify it with promises:
function getMap(){
return $.ajax({
url: "getMap.php",
type: "POST",
data: "",
dataType: 'JSON',
success: dataHandler
});
};
getMap().then(function(data){
loadedMap = JSON.parse(data);
console.log(loadedMap);
});

Grabbing JSON data with AJAX

I have a JSON URL that I need to grab the variables from and use them as jQuery stings. I've tried several different approaches and all of them are unsuccessful.
Approach 1
$.getJSON('http://radio.silvertoneradio.com/rpc/incoleyl/streaminfo.get', function(data) {
alert(JSON.stringify(data))
});
Resilt
I receive an 200 OK message, but I do not get any data returned.
Approach 2
$.ajax({
url:"http://radio.silvertoneradio.com/rpc/incoleyl/streaminfo.get",
dataType:'jsonp',
success:function(data){
var obj = jQuery.parseJSON(data);
alert(obj.title);
}
});
Result
I receive on 200 OK but the obj value is NULL
Approach 3
$.getJSON("http://radio.silvertoneradio.com/rpc/incoleyl/streaminfo.get",function(ajaxresult){
window.artist = ajaxresult.track.artist;
});
Resilt
I receive an 200 OK message, but I do not get any data returned.

You didn't look with attention at the JSON object returned by the service.
What you're looking for is the data property of the returned object which is an array.
Something like this do work :
$.ajax({
url: "http://radio.silvertoneradio.com/rpc/incoleyl/streaminfo.get",
dataType: 'jsonp',
success: function (data) {
console.log(arguments);
alert(data.data[0].title);
}
});
JSFiddle to demo

JSON Data returned from Ajax on Safari is converted into a javascript list

This is something I recently found out, I have the following piece of code in JS:
$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
url: '/requestHandle',
data: data,
success: function(data) {
var places = JSON.parse(data);
// do something
},
error: function(data) {
// do something else
}
});
The data returned from my backend is indeed in JSON format, and var places = JSON.parse(data); this line works perfectly in Chrome and Firefox, it parses my JSON data into a JS list; however, in Safari, var places = JSON.parse(data); gives me error, because data is already a JS list. Instead of doing var places = JSON.parse(data), just changing to var places = data solved the error, I am wondering why it is converted automatically?
Thanks in advance

Your best solution would be to tell jQuery that the response is json so that you will always receive it as js object
$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
url: '/requestHandle',
data: data,
success: function(obj) {
// do something
},
error: function(data) {
// do something else
},
dataType: 'json' // reponse is json so it will always be pre-parsed
});