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agementsystemslikeWordPress(requiresJSONAPIplugin)andDrupalprovideaJSONservice/API

toretrievecontent.

Note:

l

ThespecifiedJSONfileisexpectedtobeUTF-8,UTF-16orUTF-32encoded.Abyteorder

markspecifiedasthefirstcharacterwillbestripped.Savinganychangeswillchangethe

encodingtoUTF-8.

l

Loadjson()iscachedperbatchrun(basedontheURL)inprint/email.

l

ThisonlineJSONviewerishandytodebugJSONdata:http://jsonviewer.stack.hu

Tip: Externalcontentisnotloadedwhileeditingascript.Totestascriptthatloadsexternalcon-

tent,youcandoapreflight;see"DoingaPreflight"onpage818.

loadjson(location)

Loadsjsondatafromthespecifiedlocation.

location

String;thesuppliedlocationshouldbeeitheraURLorarelativefilepath.Thefileprotocolissup-

portedaswellasthehttp/httpsprotocols.ThecompletesyntaxofafullyqualifiedURLwiththe"file"

protocolis:file://<host>/<path>.Ifthehostis"localhost",itcanbeomitted,resultinginfile:///<path>,for

example:file:///c:/somefolder/somejson.json.

Examples

ThissamplescriptretrievesJSONdatafromasnippet.

var localJSON = loadjson('snippets/jsonsnippet.json');

if(localJSON.post){

results.html("<h3>" + localJSON.post.title + "</h3><p>" + localJSON.post.modified + "</p>");

}

ThisscriptretrievesapostfromaWordPresssite.

var wpPost = loadjson('http://192.168.101.58/2013/06/leave-the-third-dimension-behind-and-focus-on-real-printing-innovation/?json=1');

if(wpPost.post){ 

results.html("<h1>" + wpPost.post.title + "</h1>"

+ wpPost.post.content);

}

ThisscriptretrievesmultiplepostsfromaWordPresssite.

var numPosts = 3;

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