JSON to JSX

[BEGINNER_X]

Hi All,

New to JSON.

My request is no need to hard code in script (.jsx). For that am using JSON.

We need the "dropdownlist" list "Customer1", "Customer2", "Customer3" that should comes from JSON file.

Could you please help for this.

var w = new Window ("dialog");
var myDropdown = w.add ("dropdownlist", undefined, ["Customer1", "Customer2", "Customer3"]);
myDropdown.selection = 1;
w.show ();

Thanks in Advance

[Manan Joshi · Accepted solution]

You can use eval to convert a JSON string into a JS object as follows

var a = eval('([ "Customer1", "Customer2", "Customer3" ])')
var b = eval('({"name":"John","age":30,"cars":[ "Ford", "BMW", "Fiat" ]})')

So in your code you could read a file with JSON string, convert it into JS object as shown above and then use the object to populate your UI like below

var myDropdown = w.add ("dropdownlist", undefined, a);  

Using eval can be a security threat so you could use a JSON library to parse out the string for you as JSON. You could try something like

GitHub - douglascrockford/JSON-js: JSON in JavaScript

-Manan

[ananth padmakarp64550037]

Hello Manan Joshi,