JSON formatting issue?

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I am trying to populate an html table of JSON data. I was provided the JSON data and cannot determine why it isn't populating but suspect the JSON may not be formatted properly. When I use other sample data it works, then when I sub in the JSON I was provided it doesn't work. I've tried copying the JSON into a file on my direct server, linking to what I was provided (here: ) [^] and inserting it on myjson.com and reformatting the JSON data.

Here is my code:

HTML

<script>

$(function() {

var entries = [];
var dmJSON = "https://api.myjson.com/bins/6sjud?callback=?";
$.getJSON( dmJSON, function(data) {
   $.each(data.entries, function(i, f) {
      var tblRow = "<tr>" + "<td>" + f.rank + "</td>" + "<td>" + f.name + "</td>" + "<td>" + f.march_rank + "</td>" + "<td> " + f.april_rank + "</td>" +  "<td>" + f.may_rank + "</td>" + f.personal_volume + "</td>" + f.team_volume + "</td>" + "</tr>"
       $(tblRow).appendTo("#incentive tbody");
 });

});

});
</script>


<div class="wrapper">
<div class="profile">
<table id= "incentive" border="1">
<thead>
        <th>Rank</th>
        <th>Name</th>
        <th>March</th>
        <th>April</th>
        <th>May</th>
        <th>Highest Rank</th>
        <th>Personal Volume</th>
        <th>Team Volume</th>
    </thead>
  <tbody>

   </tbody>
</table>

</div>
</div>

Any ideas where I could be going wrong?

What I have tried:

I have tried reformatting the JSON and putting it into a new file on my own server to no avail.

Posted 1-Mar-18 3:46am

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Updated 1-Mar-18 6:27am

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Richard Deeming · Answer 1 · 2018-03-01T06:28:00

The JSON is perfectly well-formed:

{
  "affiliate": [
    {
      "rank": 1,
      "name": "Sally",
      "march_rank": "Gold",
      "april_rank": "Silver",
      "may_rank": "Silver",
      "highest_rank": "Silver",
      "team_volume": 12345
    },
    {
      "rank": 2,
      "name": "Zelda",
      "march_rank": "Gold",
      "april_rank": "Bronze",
      "may_rank": "Silver",
      "highest_rank": "Gold",
      "team_volume": 12345
    }
  ]
}

The problem is, you're trying to iterate over the entries property, which doesn't exist:

$.each(data.entries, ...

You need to iterate over the affiliate property instead.

You'll need to remove the ?callback=?" query-string, which is confusing jQuery.

You're also missing a couple of opening <td>s, and one column. And there's no personal_volume property in the JSON.

Demo[^]

Bryian Tan · Answer 2 · 2018-03-01T06:28:00

Solution 2

I think is the format, it should return [{...}] instead of {...}

Here an example.

CP_JSON_formatting_issue - JSFiddle[^]

Posted 1-Mar-18 6:28am

Bryian Tan