Thanks a bunch!
Looks like my JSON data is not correctly formatted or wrapped in the callback
function. Let me see if I can tweak it and see what happens.
David
> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:24:54 -0700
> Subject: [jQuery] Re: Autocomplete - trouble with getJSON callback function
> not executing?
> From: jmay...@gmail.com
> To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com
>
>
> The link to your json file didn't work, so I couldn't look it over.
> But incorrectly formatted json will result in a failure in getJSON()
> call and your callback would never be executed. Your json has to be
> perfect, so look it over very carefully.
>
> Here's a couple of common gotchas:
>
> [
> {
> "date": "1-Jun",
> "time": "2:00 PM",
> },
> {
> "date": "3-Jun",
> "time": "2:00 PM",
> },
> ]
>
> 1) Note that the "time" field on both records has a comma at the end.
> This is incorrect, the last field should have no comma at the end.
>
> 2) Same thing on the last record, there is a comma following the
> ending curly bracket. No comma should come after the last record.
>
> This file should fail if you try it, but will succeed when removing
> these commas. There are other formatting errors not quite as common.
> Basically, json files have to be perfect. A lot of people have json
> generators to ensure they will be correct.
>
> hth!
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