Binding JSON string to ListView in Metro apps? - html

Question

I have a metro application(HTML5 & WinJS) in which am trying to display service data . Actually here am retrieving JSON data from my service but am unable to bind this data into listview . Anyone give me some working example.
Thank you.

Answer 1

You can use the WinJS.xhr() for this. You can read more about it on this link https://msdn.microsoft.com/pt-br/library/windows/apps/br229787.aspx and here is an example:
var path = "data/file.json";
function getData(path) {
WinJS.xhr({ url: path }).then(
function (response) {
var json = JSON.parse(response.responseText);
// Since this is an asynchronous function, you can't
// return the data, so you can:
// 1) retrieve the data to a namespace once the app loads.
var list = new WinJS.Binding.List(json);
Somenomespace.data = list;
// 2) or do all the binding inside the function.
var listView = document.getElementById("listViewID");
listView.winControl.itemDataSource = list.dataSource;
});
}

Answer 2

If you use the built in JSON.parse(jsonString) function you can loop through the content using a normal for loop as it then is a normal object and add it as usuall. Just remember to process or render the data.
Her is an example from code i had in a search page using listview:
var response = JSON.parse(data) ;
var originalResults = new WinJS.Binding.List();
for (x in response) {
originalResults.push(response[x]);
}
this.populateFilterBar(element, originalResults);
this.applyFilter(this.filters[0], originalResults);