Get json object by calling a URL with parameters_问答_开发者

This seems like a simple problem but I have a coder's mental block:

The concept:

I type a URL, i.e - www.mysite.com/getStuff?name=Jerry&occupation=Engineer&Id=12345

and instead of getting back a webpage or something I want to get back a json object so that I can parse on a different page.

The catch:

I can certainly accomplish this by calling a MVC controller with those parameters and returning a json object. However, Let's say I need to create this json object inside a js file that takes those parameters' values from the URL and开发者_开发知识库 I get my json back as the result.

The questions

Can I pass parameters to a js file and return a json object? Or Can I call a js file from a controller and pass it these parameters to and retrieve a json object?

Do I even need to call a controller via a URL, or can I just call a js file giving it parameters from a URL and then returning the json?

What is the proper/best way of handling this scenario, with MVC, js, jquery...anything??

Thanks a lot guys!

You have a couple of options

1) Generate the json in javascript

To do this you will need to create a simple page which includes a javascript JSON encoder (such as https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSON-js). This would be hosted at "/getStuff/index.html" and would be called by typing "www.mysite.com/getStuff/?arg=val..." For example:

<html>
    <head>
        <script src="json.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript">
                    //this function will take the window.location.search string of ?name=val and
                    //create an object like {'name':'val'}
            var parseUrl = function(urlParams) {
                var retObj = {};
                var urlParameters = null;

                if (!urlParams || urlParams.length == 0) {return retObj}
                if (urlParams.charAt(0) == '?') {
                    urlParameters = urlParams.substring(1);
                }else {
                    urlParameters = urlParams;
                }
                if (urlParameters.length == 0) {return retObj}
                var parameterPairs = urlParameters.split('&');
                var x;
                for (x in parameterPairs) {
                    var parameterPair = parameterPairs[x];
                    parameterPair = parameterPair.split('=');
                    retObj[parameterPair[0]] = parameterPair[1];
                }
                return retObj;
            };
            var createJson = function(){
                var params = parseUrl(window.location.search);
                //do work here
                var retObj = {}; //suppose this is the result of the work
                document.print(JSON.stringify(retObj)); //use the included JSON encoder
            };
        </script>
    </head>
    <body onload="createJson();">
    </body>
</html>

2) Use an MVC framework

Every MVC framework in existance will give you access to the search params used in the page request. Some will require you to provide them in /function/arg1/arg2 style (so /getStuff/jerry/engineer/12345, in your case). Others use a more traditional /function/?argName=argVal... approach. Once you have the arguments, it is a trivial matter to write them to the page in JSON format (http://php.net/manual/en/book.json.php).

Decisions, Decisions

Personally, I would use the MVC method, as it requires the least running around to get the JSON you want. However, unless you are familiar with an MVC framework (such as cake) you will probably find the process of getting up and running to be a bit arduous - these frameworks are designed for serving page content and getting them to serve up JSON is not always clearly documented.

Use jquery to parse the URL by inserting this into a <script> tag before creating the json object. from link from LekisS

$.extend({
  getUrlVars: function(){
    var vars = [], hash;
    var hashes = window.location.href.slice(window.location.href.indexOf('?') + 1).split('&');
    for(var i = 0; i < hashes.length; i++)
    {
      hash = hashes[i].split('=');
      vars.push(hash[0]);
      vars[hash[0]] = hash[1];
    }
    return vars;
  },
  getUrlVar: function(name){
    return $.getUrlVars()[name];
  }
});

// Get object of URL parameters
var allVars = $.getUrlVars();

// Getting URL var by its nam
var byName = $.getUrlVar('name');

In a separate script tag create your json object. You will need to include the Json2.js plugin to convert objects to JSON. So include this script also before the JSON object creation.

Once you have the appropriate scripts and variables you can create a json object using those parameters as needed by calling them as shown at the bottom of the example using jquery. You can also look up which JSON conversion (i.e, to string or object) you want from the Json2.js script file.

Now we have everything inside a bunch of scripts but where do we get json object through URL calling?

So the answer is simple:

Create a simple html page with these scripts where the last script finally creates and returns the json. Upload to server and use URL parameters like

www.mysite.com/getStuff?para1=value&para2=value2 to get the json object.