I have the following jQuery code. I am able to get the following data from server [{\"value\":\"1\",\"label\":\"xyz\"}, {\"value\":\"2\",\"label\":\"abc\"}]
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If your data is already in array form, it's really simple using jQuery:
$(data.msg).each(function()
{
alert(this.value);
alert(this.label);
//this refers to the current item being iterated over
var option = $('<option />');
option.attr('value', this.value).text(this.label);
$('#myDropDown').append(option);
});
.ajax()
is more flexible than .getJSON()
- for one, getJson is targeted specifically as a GET request to retrieve json; ajax() can request on any verb to get back any content type (although sometimes that's not useful). getJSON internally calls .ajax().
Here is an example of code, that attempts to featch AJAX data from /Ajax/_AjaxGetItemListHelp/
URL. Upon success, it removes all items from dropdown list with id
= OfferTransModel_ItemID
and then it fills it with new items based on AJAX call's result:
if (productgrpid != 0) {
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "/Ajax/_AjaxGetItemListHelp/",
data:{text:"sam",OfferTransModel_ItemGrpid:productgrpid},
contentType: "application/json",
dataType: "json",
success: function (data) {
$("#OfferTransModel_ItemID").empty();
$.each(data, function () {
$("#OfferTransModel_ItemID").append($("<option>
</option>").val(this['ITEMID']).html(this['ITEMDESC']));
});
}
});
}
Returned AJAX result is expected to return data encoded as AJAX array, where each item contains ITEMID
and ITEMDESC
elements. For example:
{
{
"ITEMID":"13",
"ITEMDESC":"About"
},
{
"ITEMID":"21",
"ITEMDESC":"Contact"
}
}
The OfferTransModel_ItemID
listbox is populated with above data and its code should look like:
<select id="OfferTransModel_ItemID" name="OfferTransModel[ItemID]">
<option value="13">About</option>
<option value="21">Contact</option>
</select>
When user selects About
, form submits 13
as value for this field and 21
when user selects Contact
and so on.
Fell free to modify above code if your server returns URL in a different format.
In most of the companies they required a common functionality for multiple dropdownlist for all the pages. Just call the functions or pass your (DropDownID,JsonData,KeyValue,textValue)
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
GetData('DLState',data,'stateid','statename');
});
var data = [{"stateid" : "1","statename" : "Mumbai"},
{"stateid" : "2","statename" : "Panjab"},
{"stateid" : "3","statename" : "Pune"},
{"stateid" : "4","statename" : "Nagpur"},
{"stateid" : "5","statename" : "kanpur"}];
var Did=document.getElementById("DLState");
function GetData(Did,data,valkey,textkey){
var str= "";
for (var i = 0; i <data.length ; i++){
console.log(data);
str+= "<option value='" + data[i][valkey] + "'>" + data[i][textkey] + "</option>";
}
$("#"+Did).append(str);
}; </script>
</head>
<body>
<select id="DLState">
</select>
</body>
</html>
This should do the trick:
$($.parseJSON(data.msg)).map(function () {
return $('<option>').val(this.value).text(this.label);
}).appendTo('#combobox');
Here's the distinction between ajax
and getJSON
(from the jQuery documentation):
[getJSON] is a shorthand Ajax function, which is equivalent to:
$.ajax({ url: url, dataType: 'json', data: data, success: callback });
EDIT: To be clear, part of the problem was that the server's response was returning a json object that looked like this:
{
"msg": '[{"value":"1","label":"xyz"}, {"value":"2","label":"abc"}]'
}
...So that msg
property needed to be parsed manually using $.parseJSON()
.