Question

i have a problem with the jquery getjson.

This code works

$.getJSON('http://twitter.com/status/user_timeline/USERNAME.json?count=10&callback=?', function(twitter_data)
{
    alert('works');          
});  

and this code not?

$.getJSON('https://api.twitter.com/1/account/verify_credentials.json?callback=?', function(twitter_data)
{
   alert('no alert ?');
}); 

But why? Any ideas?

example – > http://jsfiddle.net/4wWJW/2/

Thanks in advance!
Peter

Answer 1

I’ve updated a version of your code here: http://jsfiddle.net/4wWJW/9/

Unfortunately the example you give includes a oauth_nonce which I believe is a one-time authentication token. So unfortunately this won’t work. You’ll need to be authenticated with your account to debug.

Instead of using jQuery.getJSON I’ve used the long-hand call to jQuery.ajax. This allows an error handler to be used. When the ajax call succeeds the success function is called, otherwise the error function is called.

I can see in this case that the call is not successful, e.g. a status code of 200 is not returned, and therefore the error function is called.

You could interrogate the jqXHR object and the other parameters to the error function to see what is happening.