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chatycat99
chatycat99

Reputation: 107

JSON Format Issues

Right now I am getting my JSON url response as I would like to pretty print this URL

[{"chat":"ed test","displayname":"Ed Student","created_at":"2014-03-29 21:42:35"},
{"chat":"test from sue","displayname":"Sue Student","created_at":"2014-03-29 21:42:25"},{"chat":"Test from instructor","displayname":"Jane Instructor","created_at":"2014-03-29 21:42:18"}]

but I would like to get it to look like this:

[

   {

     "chat":"ed test",
     "displayname":"Ed Student",
      "created_at":"2014-03-29 21:42:35"},
    {
      "chat":"test from sue",
      "displayname":"Sue Student",
    }
]

and so on.

My code is following:

$.ajax({

        type: "POST",
        url: "chatlist.php?PHPSESSID=9c2b21f6309fd0cb8c157b54eafb7381",
        cache: true,
        async: true,
        dataType:"json",
        data: JSON.stringify(messages, null, 4),
    success: function(data){ 
            $("#messages").empty();
            for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
                entry = data[i];
                $("#messages").append("<p>"+htmlentities(entry.chat)+'<br/>&nbsp;&nbsp;'
                        +htmlentities(entry.displayname)+' '+htmlentities(entry.created_at)+"</p>\n");
                    console.log(JSON.stringify(data[i]));
            }
            OLD_TIMEOUT = setTimeout('messages()', 4000);
        }
  });

Is it possible to format the response URL that I am getting with this $.ajax call?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 167

Answers (3)

muescha
muescha

Reputation: 1539

jq is a command line json processor. you can use jq also for formatting json. when you saved your ajax call responses as json files then jq is the best way to format it on command line.

example:

$ echo '{ "foo": "lorem", "bar": "ipsum" }' | jq .
{
  "bar": "ipsum",
  "foo": "lorem"
}

see jq homepage with tutorials: http://stedolan.github.io/jq/

see also the similar SO question: How can I pretty-print JSON in (unix) shell script?

Upvotes: -1

chatycat99
chatycat99

Reputation: 107

In my PHP code I had 

echo(json_encode($messages));

When I should have had

echo(json_encode($messages, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT));

Which was printing out my JSON.

Upvotes: 1

Deepak Ingole
Deepak Ingole

Reputation: 15742

I think you are looking for,

JSON.stringify(value[, replacer [, space]])

Like,

var data = JSON.stringify(data, null, "\t"); // Using a tab character mimics standard pretty-print appearance

console.log(data);

Check

DEMO

Read:

JSON.stringify

Upvotes: 2

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