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aj mitchell
aj mitchell
540 Points
Posted by aj mitchell
aj mitchell
540 Points

Office Status Project Revisited - where does employees.JSON file come from?

And why do we need .getJSON to convert to an array or object? Why not (if we created the employees.JSON) save a javascript file with objects in it, and not need to use the .getJSON at all?

$(document).ready(function() {
  var url = "../data/employees.json";       //where does this come from?
  $.getJSON(url, function (response) {         
    var statusHTML = '<ul class="bulleted">';
    $.each(response, function (index, employee) {
      if (employee.inoffice === true) {
      statusHTML += '<li class="in">';
    } else {
           statusHTML += '<li class="out">';
           }
           statusHTML += employee.name + '</li>';
    });    
    statusHTML += '</ul>';
    $('#employeeList').html(statusHTML);
  }); // end getJSON 
}); // end ready