Question

My first attempt at it, and the testing function does not seem to work:

$.getJSON('questions.json', function(data) {alert(data);})

I am trying to alert all the contents of the JSON file which is really short.
What am I doing wrong? and why am I getting [object Object]

Answer 1

JSON is a way of encoding an object as a string so that it can be passed around a network easily. When jQuery receives a string containing JSON data, it deserializes it — it turns it back into a Javascript object. This object is passed to your success handler — you’re calling it data.

When you try to alert a Javascript object, it will give you [object Object], rather than a readable form.

You should use a Javascript console as provided by your browser to debug data like this, with the console.log method.