Question

I’ve been looking through Stackoverflow for answers and there seems to be more than one way of serializing (converting the JSON response back into HTML and/or other code so we may do something useful with it).

The way I am using is this..

$.getJSON(
    "https://www.googleapis.com/shopping/search/v1/public/products?callback=?",
    {
        key: "unique key code", 
        country: "US", 
        q: "iphone", 
        alt: "json" 
    },
    function(data) 
{

$.each(data.items, function(i, item)
  {
  //Do something with each object
  }

}

So I’m using the $.getJSON method to retrieve the JSON response then looping through each object and doing something.

Is this way fine? Should I be using another function to retrieve the JSON response?

Regards,
LS

Answer 1

if you set dataType to json jquery parses json for you

$.ajax({
dataType:"json",
...
success:function(data){
$.each(data.items, function(i, item)
  {
  //Do something with each object
  }   
}

});