Create contact table from JSON data

Question

I started a demonstration project on HTML, JSON and jQuery recently. Thing I want to achieve now is get data from the JSON file and load it into my table. I am new to JSON so it

Answer 1

With reference to this post

JSON.parse unexpected character error

I come to know that you parse already parsed JSON

You can replace your script as follows:

    window.onload = function () {
       var contacts;
       $.getJSON('contact.json',function(contacts)
        {
          $(contacts.info).each(function(index, element){  
               $('#contacts').append('<tr><td>' + element.fullname + '</td><td>'
                 + element.email + '</td><td>'
                 + element.phone + '</td><td>'
                 + element.badgeid + '</td></tr>');       
           })  
        });
     };

Answer 2

Run your JSON through a JSON validator, for instance JSONLint.com. You have a syntax error in your JSON:

{
    "length": 2,
    "info": [
        {
            "fullname":"Noob Here",
            "email":"myemail@server.com",
            "phone":"123456",
            "badgeid": "11111",  <---- Do not put a comma before a curly brace
        },
        {
            "fullname":"Newbie There",
            "email":"hisemail@server.com",
            "phone":"589433",
            "badgeid": "11112",  <---- remove comma before curly brace
        }
    ]
}

Your JSON should instead look like this:

{
    "length": 2,
    "info": [
        {
            "fullname":"Noob Here",
            "email":"myemail@server.com",
            "phone":"123456",
            "badgeid": "11111"
        },
        {
            "fullname":"Newbie There",
            "email":"hisemail@server.com",
            "phone":"589433",
            "badgeid": "11112"
        }
    ]
}