* Jennifer Ahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-12 18:20]:
> I'm sure that JSON and all the other goodies are perfect tools
> for implementing ajax, but i would like to learn what's really
> going on in teh black box before I use it.
JSON is not a “blackbox.” (Does that even mean anything?) It’s
simply a data format. It’s no different from XML in this respect,
it’s just a much simpler format than XML that looks exactly like
Javascript (though that doesn’t mean you should `eval` it, as
Jonathan said) and deserialises to plain old in-memory Javascript
data structure. Therefore it’s much easier to work with on the
client than XML is: you write regular Javascript object/array
accesses instead of painstakingly examining a DOM.
That’s it. That’s all there is to it.
> So far, my javascript is able to send an xmlhttprequest to my
> catalyst controller method which then does some processes and
> outputs data into an xml document. i'm having trouble sending
> that document over to my xmlhttprequest.responseXML object. in
> my controller:
> my $writer = new XML::LibXML::Document;
> ... do some process and spit out into an xml document...
> $c->response->content_type('text/xml');
> $c->response->write($writer);
>
> When the xmlhttprequest is ready, I plan to parse the
> req.responseXML object using XMLSerializer in my javascript
> code.
The code to send JSON looks pretty much identical.
use JSON::XS;
$c->res->content_type('application/json');
$c->res->body(encode_json($c->stash));
Regards,
--
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
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