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The JavaScript JSON Cookbook

The JavaScript JSON Cookbook

By : Ray Rischpater, Brian Ritchie
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The JavaScript JSON Cookbook

The JavaScript JSON Cookbook

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By: Ray Rischpater, Brian Ritchie

Overview of this book

If you're writing applications that move structured data from one place to another, this book is for you. This is especially true if you've been using XML to do the job because it's entirely possible that you could do much of the same work with less code and less data overhead in JSON. While the book's chapters make some distinction between the client and server sides of an application, it doesn't matter if you're a frontend, backend, or full-stack developer. The principles behind using JSON apply to both the client and the server, and in fact, developers who understand both sides of the equation generally craft the best applications.
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Creating an XMLHttpRequest object

All modern web browsers provide an XMLHttpRequest class you can instantiate in your code, which you can use to issue asynchronous calls to obtain content over HTTP. You'll create one or more of these in your client-side JavaScript using the new operator.

How to do it...

You'll want to create an instance of this class early on in your JavaScript after the page loads, as shown in the following code:

function doAjax() {
var xmlhttp;
if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
  {
    // code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
    xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
  }
}

How it works…

The preceding code tests the root-level JavaScript window object for the XMLHttpRequest class, and if the browser defines the class, creates an instance of the class for us to use in the making of asynchronous requests.

See also

If you're working with a very old version of Internet Explorer, you may need to use a Microsoft.XMLHTTP ActiveX object. In which case, the test for window...

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