Highcharts to populate data for pie chart using json object

Question

hi my json object looks like this

[
  {\"name\":\"Tokyo\",\"data\":3.0},
  {\"name\":\"NewYork\",\"data\":2.0},
  {\"name\":\"Berlin\",\"data\":3.5},
  {\"n         


        

Answer 1

Actually the only difference between your data definition and the format that Highcharts requires, is that yours has a property called "data" where Highcharts expects "y". So you just need to loop over the data and set that property. See it live at http://jsfiddle.net/highcharts/uTyZk/.

// Original data
var data = [{
    "name": "Tokyo",
    "data": 3.0
}, {
    "name": "NewYork",
    "data": 2.0
}, {
    "name": "Berlin",
    "data": 3.5
}, {
    "name": "London",
    "data": 1.5
}];

// Highcharts requires the y option to be set
$.each(data, function (i, point) {
    point.y = point.data;
});


var chart = new Highcharts.Chart({

    chart: {
        renderTo: 'container',
        type: 'pie'
    },

    series: [{
        data: data
    }]

});