Hi this is my first attempt to use MustacheJS with a JSON webservice in .net
Currently I am struggling I can't seem to find what I am doing wrong setting this basic example:
My Webservice is returing the following string:
[
{
"ShortDescription":"BOX",
"Description":"BOXING",
"Id":1
},
{
"ShortDescription":"EPL",
"Description":"ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE",
"Id":2
}
]
I have validated its syntax with this website: http://json.parser.online.fr/
and here is the HTML code I am using:
google.load("jquery", "1");
google.setOnLoadCallback(function () {
$(document).ready(
function () {
$.ajax({
url: "../data.asmx/geteagues",
type: "POST",
dataType: "json",
data: "",
contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
success: function (data) {
var template = "<h1>{{ShortDescription}} {{Description}}</h1>";
var html = Mustache.render(template, data);
$('#sampleArea').html(html);
alert(html);
}
})
}
)
});
I am posting the whole JS code, since I am not very good with javascript, basically I want to load always the latest JQuery version from google and then work my WS call.
The problem so far is that when I place a breakpoint in the following line:
var html = Mustache.render(template, data);
I see that the template is setn ok, and so does the data, same value as I posted above, but the .render function is returning:
I seems It didnt like the data.
So far all the examples I have seen for inline data come as the following structure:
{
"repo": [
{ "name": "resque" },
{ "name": "hub" },
{ "name": "rip" },
]
}
And then a template defined like this:
{{#repo}}
<b>{{name}}</b>
{{/repo}}
But the only difference of that against my data is that I dont have a "parent" like "repo"
At server side, I am using a .net library called JSON.net and in the documentation of how are collections being serialized:
james.newtonking.com/projects/json/help/html/SerializingCollections.htm
the final result does not include the parent node's name, which I thing is missing from my Mustache Template definition:
[
{
"Name": "Product 1",
"ExpiryDate": "2000-12-29T00:00Z",
"Price": 99.95,
"Sizes": null
},
{
"Name": "Product 2",
"ExpiryDate": "2009-07-31T00:00Z",
"Price": 12.50,
"Sizes": null
}
]
Is this what I am missing? the "repo" parent node from my data so I can iterate my Template?
Thanks in advance for your time.
-ed
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