fetching a url using $.getJSON and parsing it correctly
- by sofia
This is probably really stupid but i can't find the problem with my code. It fetches a url that returns json and the function is then supposed to return a string:
function getit() {
var ws_url = 'example.com/test.js';
var user = false;
$.getJSON(ws_url, function(data) {
alert('user '+data.user);//shows john
user = data.user || false;
}
);
return user;//should return john but returns false
}
test.js will have something like this:
{"id":"12","username":"ses","user":"john","error":""}
or like this:
{"error":"123"}
I also tried if(data.user){}else{} but it didn't work either..
So what am i missing?
Thanks :)
