Loading local JSON file

Question

I\'m trying to load a local JSON file but it won\'t work. Here is my JavaScript code (using jQuery):

var json = $.getJSON("test.json");
var data = e         


        

Answer 1

function readTextFile(srcfile) {
        try { //this is for IE
            var fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");;
            if (fso.FileExists(srcfile)) {
                var fileReader = fso.OpenTextFile(srcfile, 1);
                var line = fileReader.ReadLine();
                var jsonOutput = JSON.parse(line); 
            }

        } catch (e) {

        }
}

readTextFile("C:\\Users\\someuser\\json.txt");

What I did was, first of all, from network tab, record the network traffic for the service, and from response body, copy and save the json object in a local file. Then call the function with the local file name, you should be able to see the json object in jsonOutout above.