Question

I am working with learning json right now and to get my feat wet so to speak I was wondering what would be the best way to get a file with json info and populate a site with it. The file would be something like this:

window.test =
{
    "header1":
    [
        { "title": "title1", "author": "author1"},
        { "title": "title2", "author": "author2"},
        { "title": "title3", "author": "author3"}
    ],
    "header2":
    [
        { "title": "title1", "author": "author1"},
        { "title": "title1", "author": "author2"},
        { "title": "title1", "author": "author3"}
    ]
};

Then would the code be something like this?

$(function() {
    $.getJSON('jsonFile.js',function(data){
        $.each(data, function(){
            console.log(header1.title);
            console.log(header2.title);
        });
    });
});

Again I am a newbie with JSON so any tutorials, suggestions, well anything to help me understand core concepts here would help.

Answer 1

Your json:

{ 
    "header1": 
    [ 
        { "title": "title1", "author": "author1"}, 
        { "title": "title2", "author": "author2"}, 
        { "title": "title3", "author": "author3"} 
    ], 
    "header2": 
    [ 
        { "title": "title1", "author": "author1"}, 
        { "title": "title1", "author": "author2"}, 
        { "title": "title1", "author": "author3"} 
    ] 
}

Your code:

$(function() {   
    $.getJSON('jsonFile.js',function(data){

        console.log(data.header1[0].title);   
        console.log(data.header2[0].title);     
    });   
});  

Optionally, do a each() over data.header1 and data.header2