getJSON does not honor async:false

Question

I have this code below, which is supposed to return the result of the call. I need to do this synchronously so that I know everything is good, however it doesn\'t seem to work.

Answer 1

getJSON does not honor async:false

getJSON has no async: false option. You'd have to use ajax for that.

According to the documentation, getJSON is equivalent to:

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

...to which you can easily add an async: false option (for now, be forewarned that jQuery will be dropping support for that).

I need to do this synchronously so that I know everything is good

You don't need to do anything synchronously to "know everything is good", it's perfectly possible (and normal) to handle results (whether "good" or errors) asynchronously.

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In the comments on your question, you've written:

jsonp? This is the code I am using.

JSON-P is not the same as JSON (and getJSON doesn't do JSON-P unless you have callback=? or similar in the URL), and JSON-P is inherently asynchronous. Unlike a true ajax call via XMLHttpRequest, it's impossible to make JSON-P synchronous.