I am desperately trying to get a local build of a site to get a JSON file (also local) with no luck. The exact code worked perfect on my server, but once local, breaks.
I get the JSON with jQuery like so:
$.getJSON(
"lib/js/app.json",
function(data){
$.each(data, function(i,user){
+'<img src="'+user.thumbnail+'"/>
});
}
);
And receive this console error:
XMLHttpRequest cannot load file://localhost/Users/blakestruhs/new/lib/js/app.json. Origin null is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.
I'm dying for an answer here. Please help me.
I think you use a Webkit browser like chrome, right? Chome does'n see a relation between two local files. Use Firefox or run it on a webserver ;)
"Origin null is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin" in Chrome. Why?
JSON has to load over the HTTP protocol rather than the local file protocol.
The cross domain complaint is that it'll treat each file as a different domain so you need to run it in a web server.
either set up a local webserver or store your JSON in a variable instead and skip getJSON altogether.
Chrome doesn't allow ajax calls to be made to local files. Refer This
XmlHttpRequest isn't allowed cross-domain.
If you need to do a demonstration on a local pc, setup your web app to run on local webserver, and have the json source be returned be the same web application.
That's the only way I can think to make it work. You can't use Ajax calls on filesystem for security reasons.
I think if you access the page that calls the getJSON with the IP address then use the ip address instead of localhost for the json file, effectively they belong to the same domain and it should work
Instead of using getJSON, for browsers which support it (including Chrome) you can use the FileReader API.
var r = new FileReader();
r.onload = function(e) {
var obj = JSON.parse(e.target.result);
// do what you will with the object
}
// Start the async read
r.readAsText(file);
Note that the file variable needs to be a File or Blob object. The easiest way to get one is to let the user choose it from a file input element. If you need to read a file without asking the user, you might check out: https://stackoverflow.com/a/30896068/2476389
You should use http://localhost
over file://localhost
;
$.getJSON(
"http://localhost/Users/blakestruhs/new/lib/js/app.json",
function(data){
$.each(data, function(i,user){
+'<img src="'+user.thumbnail+'"/>
});
}
);