Menu
I'm trying to reload a JSON file every 10 seconds with JQUERY.
The page is here: http://moemonty.com/chirp/chirp.html
The Code is here:
<html>
<head>
<title>the title</title>
<!-- included Jquery Library -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="./js/jquery-1.4.2.js"></script>
<!-- jquery library -->
</head>
<body>
<script>
$.ajaxSetup({ cache: false }); //disallows cachinge, so information should be new
function loadChirp(){ //start function
var url = "http://www.chirpradio.org/json";
$.getJSON("http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select%20*%20from%20json%20where%20url%3D%22"+url+"%22&format=json&callback=?",
function(data){
console.log(data.query.results.json);
document.write('The artist is: ' + data.query.results.json.artist + '<br/><br/>');
document.write('The artist is: ' + data.query.results.json["record-label"] + '<br/><br/>' );
document.write('The album is: ' + data.query.results.json.album + '<br/><br/>');
document.write('The record label is: ' + data.query.results.json["record-label"] + '<br/><br/>');
document.write('The feedback link is: ' + data.query.results.json["feedback-link"] + '<br/><br/>');
document.write('The database id is: ' + data.query.results.json["database-id"] + '<br/><br/>');
document.write('The time is: ' + data.query.results.json.timestamp.time + ' ');
document.write(data.query.results.json.timestamp["am-pm"] + '<br/><br/>');
document.write('The current dj is: ' + data.query.results.json["current-dj"] + '<br/><br/>');
setTimeout("loadChirp()",5000);
alert('The timeout was triggered.');
});
} //end function
$(document).ready(function(){
//DOCUMENT READY FUNCTION
loadChirp();
});
//DOCUMENT READY FUNCTION
</script>
</body>
</html>
It doesn't seem to be working.
834
Creating a function that calls the AJAX request and using this function in setInterval() and set Interval for 5 sec. Now the function executes every 5 seconds and fetches new data from the server. It repeatedly executes the function even when the previous AJAX request is not successfully executed and return.
The . reload() method can be triggered either explicitly (with a button click) or automatically. You can also use the . reload() method inside an Ajax success callback function and this is very simple.
How do you refresh a page when JSON data file changes? Create a timer, fetch the json file every X milliseconds. If the json contents has changed since the last fetch, reload the page. The sample code below uses JQuery to fetch the json file, and checks every 2000 milliseconds.
Approach: To solve this problem, we will first consider a JSON file named “capitals. json” and try to get this JSON data as a response using AJAX. Then we will create an HTML file “capitals. html” which contains a table which we will use to populate the data we are getting in response.
You probably want the previous set of returned data replaced by the new set, instead of appending it. In that case, using jQuery you can do:
<div id='content'></div>
<script>
function loadChirp(){
$.getJSON("http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select%20*%20from%20json%20where%20url%3D%22"+url+"%22&format=json&callback=?",
function(data) {
$('#content').html('The artist is: ' + data.query.results.json.artist + '<br/><br/>');
});
setTimeout("loadChirp()",5000);
}
</script>
etc...
63
I would expect the loop to work as quoted, but there could be a subtlety around the fact you're using JSONP. I would change the setTimeout call to:
setTimeout(loadChirp, 5000);
...for a couple of reasons. First off, using the function reference rather than a code string is a better idea generally, and second off, you're quite certain that you're getting the right function reference (whereas with the string, what reference you get depends on the context in which the code is executed).
But as Pointy pointed out in a comment, there's a separate issue: document.write will not do what you probably want it to do there. You can only use document.write to write to the HTML stream that's being parsed as part of the original page load. After the page load, you can't use it anymore. Consider using jQuery's append or appendTo and similar functions to add to the DOM after page load.
42
If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
Donate Us With
