JQuery $.getJSON load local JSON file not working

Question

My problem is very simple, I have a file with the name of new.json and I am trying to use JQuery to load and display the data. I have been writing JavaScript code:

$.getJSON("new.json", function(data){
        // I have placed alert here previously and realized it doesn't go into here
        $.each(data.streetCity, function(i,s){
            alert(s);
        });
    });
}

and the data in new.json looks as below:

{"streetCity":
    {
        "1":"Abergement-Clemenciat",
        "2":"Abergement-de-Varey",
        "3":"Amareins"
    }
};

Answer 1

Your problem is the ';' (semicolon) in the JSON file. JSON response doesn't need a semicolon. Remove that your example should work fine!

Answer 2

If you are using Chrome. Because Chrome don't allow xmlhttprequest to request local file. So jquery can not load your new.json

you can add

--allow-file-access-from-files

to the start command of chrome. This can allow xmlhttprequest to load local resource

Answer 3

If you are using jQuery 1.5+ you can chain an error handler onto the call to see what is going on:

$.getJSON("new.json", function(data){
        // I have placed alert here previously and realized it doesn't go into here
        $.each(data.streetCity, function(i,s){
            alert(s);
        });
    }).error(function(jqXhr, textStatus, error) {
                alert("ERROR: " + textStatus + ", " + error);
    });

new.json is probably in a different path than the calling page. Also, if your snippets are accurate you don't need that last curly brace in the script or the last semicolon in the json.