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10/30/2014 - 2:10 AM

Setting a variable to JSON dataset without having to put logic that needs to follow the retrieval of the JSON object inside the JSON callbac

Setting a variable to JSON dataset without having to put logic that needs to follow the retrieval of the JSON object inside the JSON callback.

json-variable-outer.js
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var json = (function () {
    var json = null;
    $.ajax({
        'async': false,
        'global': false,
        'url': my_url,
        'dataType': "json",
        'success': function (data) {
            json = data;
        }
    });
    return json;
})();
json-variable-outer-var.js
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var myData = getSomething();

function getSomething(){
    var result = null;
    $.ajax({
        async: false,
        url: "url",
        dataType: "json",
        success: function (data) {
             result = data;
        }
    });
    return result;
}
json-variable-outer-getjson.js
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function getSomething () {
    $.getJSON("url", data, myCallback)
    
    }

function myCallback(data){
    // Do some processing!
}
json-outer-pass-to-function.js
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function get_something(){
    $.getJSON("get_something.php",function(json){          
        processMyJson(json);
    });    
}
function processMyJson(json){
    console.log(json);
}