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jQuery quicksearch plug-in tinkering with JSON

I've implemented the quicksearch plugin by Rik Lomas and I love it for an application in a custom CMS I'm building. I was wondering though, since I'm going to have a bizillion items in the table if there's a way to use the data from my json callback to populate the table as a user searches rather than the table contents themselves. So...

what is the best way to convert a json formated key value pair to ruby hash with symbol as key?

I am wondering what is the best way to convert a json formated key value pair to ruby hash with symbol as key : examole: { 'user': { 'name': 'foo', 'age': 40, 'location': { 'city' : 'bar', 'state': 'ca' } } } ==> { :user=>{ :name => 'foo', :age =>'40', :location=>{ :city => 'bar', :state=>'ca' } } } Is there a helper method can do t...

Getting PHP array to JavaScript through Json

Hey, I've got a PHP file that that echo's an array that has been encoded with json_encode. This file is used by the jQuery ajax function to retrieve the array. I am unable to figure out how to use the array though, I have managed to alert variables but not arrays. Here is my code: function sessionStatus(){ $(document).ready(function...

How to represent a sparse array in JSON?

I've got a sparse array that I want to represent in JSON. For example: -10 => 100 -1 => 102 3 => 44 12 => -87 12345 => 0 How can I do this? Can I do this? ...

Convert JSON to CSV or unstructured text

How might you take JSON output (e.g., from http://www.kinggary.com/tools/todoist-export.php) and strip the names to yield just the values from each pair, as CSV or human-friendly text? Want a more readable, human-editable backup of my friend's data on todoist.com ...

jqGrid row IDs and custom info with JSON data

Hello, I am having an issue with the using jqGrid with JSON data returned from the server. I have a grid that is displaying different types of objects – and since the objects are different types, two could have the same ID. jqGrid seems to use the id field if the data to set the dom id of the row, so I end up having two rows with the s...

Filtering the result of a JSON.parse response in Ruby (and the JSON gem).

Hey everybody, In a little app I'm building, I'm using the the twitter_oauth gem (source of the methods I'm using), which incidentally means I'm dealing with the JSON ruby gem. I'm using the messages method, whose source is as follows: def messages(page=1) oauth_response = access_token.get("/direct_messages.json?page=#{page}")...

How can I create a JSON structure dynamically from Go?

As in, serializing JSON. My current code doesn't work, and I think it must have something to do with the fact that _Map, _String, etc. are not public. // vim:ft=go:ts=2 package main import "json" import "fmt" import vector "container/vector" func main() { groceries := vector.New(0); groceries.Push(&json._String{s:"Eggs"}); gro...

How can i get Ajax to work with coldfusion using the Facebook FBML api?

I am trying to make a facebook FMBL application for a client, not iframe or FAcebook connect app. I am having trouble using CF PROXY and Jquery for my synchronous data connections. I know how to use it for typical web pages but the Facebook version is incredibly difficult to work with. I understand that Jquery cannot be used but what ab...

JQuery/MVC Search Issue

Hi All. This is not easy to explain so please bare with me. I have inherited a piece of work where the entry screen shows a summary of 20 calculated variables. E.g. Var A (250), Var B (79). Clicking on any of these links takes the user to a view with a list of fields - all 20 use the same controller but with a different GET for e...

How to Validate fields when calling Json post method to save data?

I'm working in an ASP.NET MVC application. In that I need to save records(example: Name, Email, comments) using Json request. I don't have any form tag and submit button on my page. So I'm calling Javascript method on button click event to save my records asynchronously. I'm not able to use jQuery's validate plugin. Is there any jquery c...

Whats the best way to return JSON *and* HTML in same ActionResult in ASP.NET MVC

I'm using ASP.NET-MVC and returning JSON or HTML from my MVC actions. I've come across some cases where I need to return BOTH JSON and HTML at the same time. For instance I may update a shopping cart and need to return an HTML representation as well as an updated JS object model. I've found a lot of questions on SO about when to return...

Problem with GZIP JSON AJAX response

Hello, I am facing a problem, while encoding the response that I send back for an AJAX request, using GZIP. Can anyone give me some pointers on this please? There is an AJAX request from the JSP, An action class (Struts) at the server side handles the request, The response is prepared as a JSON object, The JSON string is written to th...

Zend_JSON:Encode messing up - why!?!??!

My Zend_Json is messing up in encoding an object here. I'm encoding an associative array which has two elements: Element one is another associative array while element 2 is an HTML string. He's goofing up such that the Html string part contains just NULL!!?!?!?!? Heres the element UNencoded when I do a var_dump on it...sorry for the loo...

strange behaviour with json object coming from ajax call in safari/webkit

I'm using jquery to make an AJAX POST call to a web service, and getting a JSON object back, which gives me back some html code that i want to append to a div, it works fine in firefox but the problem is that safari doesn't do the appending, here is the example: $.ajax({ type: "POST", url: "ConnMgr.asmx/Request", data: JSON.strin...

Using Unix Tools to Extract String Values

I wrote a small Perl script to extract all the values from a JSON formatted string for a given key name (shown below). So, if I set a command line switch for the Perl script to id, then it would return 1,2, and stringVal from the JSON example below. This script does the job, but I want to see how others would solve this same problem usi...

Why is Everyone Choosing JSON Over XML for jQuery?

I thought XML is highly portable and can be used as a mini database. I have seen XML used everywhere. I even see large companies switching over to JSON. Even Microsoft has integrated support for JSON. What is all the hype over JSON? ...

Json results prompting "Save As" dialog in browser instead of being processed. ASP.NET MVC

Hi, I know this has been an issue for others, but I've yet to find anything that fixes my problem. I have a partial view that is displayed in a lightbox (colorbox). It is a simple form. I want the form to submit and return a little bit of data. The data will be used in calling subsequent functions, and I want the main DIV just to be...

Java: cannot parse and display non-utf8 characters read from an http request

Hello, I'm using Java to parse this request http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?start=0&amp;rsz=large&amp;v=1.0&amp;q=rz+img+news+recordid+border which has as a result this (truncated for the sake of brevity) JSON file: {"responseData":{"results": <...> "visibleUrl":"www.coolcook.net", "cacheUrl":"http://www.google....

what is the name of the convention used in this syntax diagram

I found this diagram in the JSON specification: Where does this diagramming convention come from? Is it just some random convention cooked up by D.C.? ...