JSON data from google spreadsheet

Question

I went through this fiddle which have a sample of three dropdown with json data. I have a sample google spreadsheet here. Now is it possible to render this spreadsheet data to the example given at fiddle as json format. I know we can convert the spreadsheet to json as,

 var query = new google.visualization.Query('http://spreadsheets.google.com/tq?key=0AozvCNI02VmpdDkwR3RETmczbTI4ZFJhTXJkZHlUbEE#gid=0');
 query.send(handleQueryResponse);
 }
 function handleQueryResponse(response) {
    data = response.getDataTable();
    }

But using this the dropdown didn't works.

Answer 1

I'm not sure about the way you're doing it but it can be accomplished a different way. Please see this fiddle using your example data, and below for the code.

Basically you call the JSON data from your spreadsheet with the below HTML script tags.

<script src="http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/0An1-zUNFyMVLdEFEdVV3N2h1SUJOdTdKQXBfbGpNTGc/1/public/values?alt=json-in-script&amp;callback=importGSS"></script>

Please note I'm linking to a copy of your spreadsheet as it requires it to by published

Then the you can handle the data with the below script.

function importGSS(json){
    for(var i = 0; i < json.feed.entry.length; i++){
        var entry = json.feed.entry[i];
        $('#departments').append('<option>' + entry.gsx$subdivision.$t + '</option>');
        $('#subject').append('<option>' + entry.gsx$section.$t + '</option>');
        $('#services').append('<option>' + entry.gsx$station.$t + '</option>');
    }
}

You can obviously adapt to your own needs.