Question

I have Chrome 7.0 and am trying to access fields of a global object. The code is working perfectly in Firefox and IE, but Chrome’s debugger isn’t helping me get anywhere. I tried Safari and it’s also having trouble.

I can get the value of timer, but when I access status through the console I get "[object Object]". status.completedJobs returns undefined even after status = $.parseJSON(msg.d); (json string is valid).

I’m not sure what to do after this. Calling $.parseJSON(msg.d); from console works and I’m able to view the object’s fields with the debugger. How do I get the status Object properly assigned and globally accessible?

Here’s my code:

//Object that holds result of AJAX request
var status = new Object();
//Refresh timer variables
var timer;
var timer_is_on = 0;

$(document).ready(function() {
    update();
    doTimer();
});

/**
 * Performs the AJAX request and updates the page
 */
function update() {
    $.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        url: "Default.aspx/getStatus",
        data: "{}",
        contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
        dataType: "json",
        success: function(msg) {
            if (msg) {
                try {
                    status = $.parseJSON(msg.d);
                } catch (e) {
                    console.log(e);
                }
                updateProgressBar();
            }
        }
    });
}

function updateProgressBar() {
    var percent = Math.round(status.completedJobs / status.numJobs * 100);
    $('#progressPercentage').text(percent + '%');
    $('#progressbar').progressbar({
        value: percent
    });
}

/**
 * Used to initialize the timer.
 */
function doTimer() {
    if (!timer_is_on) {
        timer_is_on = 1;
        timedCount();
    }
}

/**
 * Executed on every time interval.
 */
function timedCount() {
    update();
    timer = setTimeout("timedCount()", 3000);
}

Answer 1

Try using another name than status, there is a predefined member of window(window is the global object in browser-based JS) called “status”. It also would be good if you assign the global variable to the window-object to avoid conflicts if there exists a variable in the current (not global) scope with the same name:

window['statusVar'] = $.parseJSON(msg.d);