jQuery.getJson - is error in json file or in js?

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I'm new to js and jQuery, so still very much feeling around ... but this has foxed me for a couple of days.

I am trying to do this 101 thing - to use jQuery.getJson to read and then do something with the file that's over here: http://www.metakarma.org/agame.json

I can't figure out where the error is - in my js or in the file.

Here's what I'm trying in the js:

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function () {
        $.getJSON("http://www.metakarma.org/agame.json", function (data) {
            $.each(data.moves, function (i, amove)
            $("#debug").append(amove.role + ' ' + amove.message + '<p>');
            });
        });
</script>

When I use the js example to get the first 3 cat photos from Flickr on the jQuery reference page over here - http://docs.jquery.com/Getjson - it basically works as expected. But my code/file combo above produces complete silence.

I guess I have 2 questions: 1. how do I efficiently debug this? 2. what is the bug?

Very grateful for pointers out of my current hole! Tony

Robot Woods · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-09 00:39:31Z

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You can use a tool such as jsonlint.com to validate the JSON (yours is not due to the surrounding parentheses) to narrow it down to handling or data.

I'd also use a tool such as firebug/wireshark/httpfox, etc to watch the network traffic to see if your calls are returning data, or what else might be happening.

answered Jun 9, 2012 at 0:39

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Tony Curzon Price Over a year ago

Thank you. OK - took out the surrounding parentheses and now have valid JSON but still silence. Will now see what I can see in firebug

Robot Woods Over a year ago

now that the JSON is valid, maybe this will help: stackoverflow.com/questions/3030321/…

Tony Curzon Price Over a year ago

OK - the cross-server scripting restrictions were the cause of my problem here. First I had to not be running the js locally on MAMP and trying to read the json file off the server - I caught that by looking at the JS console in Chrome.

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