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    JavaScript and JSON Essentials
    JavaScript and JSON Essentials
    JavaScript and JSON Essentials
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    JavaScript and JSON Essentials

    By Sai Srinivas Sriparasa

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    The exchange of data over the Internet has been carried out since its inception. Delimiter-separated lists such as CSV and tag-separated languages such as XML are very popular, yet they are considered to be verbose by a section of developers. JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight text-based code to create objects to transfer data over the Internet. It is a data exchange format that is human-readable (like XML, but without the markup around your actual payload) and its syntax is a subset of the JavaScript language that was standardized in 1999.

    JavaScript and JSON Essentials is a step-by-step guide that will introduce you to JSON and help you understand how the lightweight JSON data format can be used in different ways either to store data locally or to transfer data over the Internet. This book will teach you how to use JSON effectively with JavaScript.

    This book begins with a brief refresher course on JavaScript before taking you through how JSON data can be transferred via synchronous, asynchronous, and cross-domain asynchronous HTTP calls. JSON is not just about data transfer; this book throws light on the alternate implementations of JSON as well.

    You will learn the data types that JavaScript uses and how those data types can be used in JSON. You will go through the concepts of how to create, update, parse, and delete a JSON object. You will also look at the different techniques of loading a JSON file onto a web page, how to use jQuery to traverse through an object, and how to perform access operations. You will also go over a few resources that will make debugging JSON quick and easy.

    Approach

    The book follows a tutorial-based approach and will teach you how to work with JSON tools, design JSON objects, and how to use different techniques to handle JSON data.

    Who this book is for

    This book is a great resource for developers who would like to learn more about JSON and who wish to apply it in their own projects. It will be useful to have some prior knowledge of HTML and JavaScript to help you understand the concepts covered in this book. Some familiarity with a server-side language such as PHP, C#, or Python would also be beneficial, but this is not compulsory.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateOct 24, 2013
    ISBN9781783286041
    JavaScript and JSON Essentials
    Author

    Sai Srinivas Sriparasa

    " Sai Srinivas Sriparasa is a web developer and an open source evangelist living in the Stamford area. Sai was the lead developer for building Dr. Oz’s website, and has led teams for companies such as Sprint Nextel, West Interactive, and Apple. Sai’s repertoire includes JavaScript, PHP, Python, HTML5, responsive web development, ASP.NET, C#, and Silverlight."

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    JavaScript and JSON Essentials - Sai Srinivas Sriparasa

    Table of Contents

    JavaScript and JSON Essentials

    Credits

    About the Author

    About the Reviewers

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    Preface

    What this book covers

    What you need for this book

    Who this book is for

    Conventions

    Reader feedback

    Customer support

    Downloading the example code

    Errata

    Piracy

    Questions

    1. JavaScript Basics

    Variables in JavaScript

    Arrays

    Objects

    The Carousel application

    Summary

    2. Getting Started with JSON

    The Hello World program with JSON

    Datatypes in JSON

    Languages that support JSON

    PHP

    Python

    Summary

    3. Working with Real-time JSON

    Accessing objects in JSON

    Performing complex operations

    Modifying JSON

    Summary

    4. AJAX Calls with JSON Data

    Requirements for AJAX

    Hosting JSON

    Making your first AJAX call

    Parsing JSON data

    Summary

    5. Cross-domain Asynchronous Requests

    Making GET and POST AJAX calls with JSON data

    The problem with cross-domain AJAX calls

    Introduction to JSONP

    Implementing JSONP

    Summary

    6. Building the Carousel Application

    Setting up the application

    Building the JSON file for the Carousel application

    Creating the Carousel application with jQuery Cycle

    Summary

    7. Alternate Implementations of JSON

    Dependency management

    JSON for storing metadata

    Comparisons with YAML

    Summary

    8. Debugging JSON

    Using the developer tools

    Validating JSON

    Formatting JSON

    Summary

    Index

    JavaScript and JSON Essentials

    JavaScript and JSON Essentials

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    About the Author

    Sai Srinivas Sriparasa is a web developer and an open source evangelist living in the Stamford area. Sai was the lead developer for building Dr. Oz’s website, and has led teams for companies such as Sprint Nextel, West Interactive, and Apple. Sai’s repertoire includes JavaScript, PHP, Python, HTML5, responsive web development, ASP.NET, C#, and Silverlight.

    I want to convey my sincere thanks to the team at Packt Publishing for making this book possible, Shaon, Akash, and Sumeet in particular. This is my first book, so I want to thank all of the readers in advance for having taken the time to read my book. Please contact me on my LinkedIn profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/saisriparasa for networking or for any questions that you have.

    My acknowledgments cannot be complete unless I thank my mom, dad, and sister for all their patience and support throughout my life. I hope you all enjoy this book and wish me luck for my next book.

    About the Reviewers

    Marco Lüthy is a Swiss-born creator, designer, developer, and engineer for Internet-enabled applications and has over 10 years of experience working on projects deployed over the Internet. Occasionally he likes to dabble in content creation of the written and photographic kind. Marco’s current focus is the Tokyo-based Internet media and application development firm Robotag Media, Inc., where he is co-founder and resident factotum working on making many useful, pretty things for us all to use and play with.

    Shameera Rathnayaka is an Apache Axis2 committer and a PMC member, and has been actively contributing to several Apache projects for the past few years. He holds a B.Sc. Engineering (Hons) in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. He first started his open source contributions with the Apache Axis2 project, where he implemented JDK 7 Enum support for Apache Axis2 as well as stream-based high performance solutions for JSON<-->XML lossless transformation. He is a Google Summer of Code participant with Apache Axis2 and Apache Airavata projects and has reviewed the book Instant GSON, Sandeep Kumar Patel, Packt Publishing.

    Shameera currently works as a Software Engineer at WSO2 Inc., an open source enterprise middleware company based in Sri Lanka, where he is a member of the WSO2 Carbon team. His main research interests are in distributed computing.

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    Preface

    JavaScript and JSON Essentials is a one-stop resource that can be used for understanding and implementing JSON in various web applications. This book provides a comprehensive insight into how JSON can

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