Why does $.getJSON silently fail?

Question

It seems very inconvenient that jQuery\'s $.getJSON silently fails when the data returned is not valid JSON. Why was this implemented with silent failure? What is the easies

Answer 1

Straight from the documentation:

Important: As of jQuery 1.4, if the JSON file contains a syntax error, the request will usually fail silently.

As the documentation page says, getJSON is simply a shorthand method for

$.ajax({
    url: url,
    dataType: 'json',
    data: data,
    success: callback
});

To get failure behavior, you can use $.ajax like this:

$.ajax({
    url: url,
    dataType: 'json',
    data: data,
    success: callback,
    error: another callback
});