{"id":1492,"date":"2016-02-02T11:05:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T11:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grodansparadis.com\/wordpress\/?p=1492"},"modified":"2017-12-11T08:13:56","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T08:13:56","slug":"get-mdf-content-in-json-or-jsonp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grodansparadis.com\/wordpress\/?p=1492","title":{"rendered":"#VSCP HOWTO: Get MDF content in JSON or JSONP"},"content":{"rendered":"

To get a XML file in JavaScript can be difficult due to the same origin policy<\/a>.\u00a0 CORS<\/a> is on solution but using\u00a0 JSONP<\/a> is a much simpler solution also because JavaScript kind of like the JSON format.<\/p>\n

The problem here for VSCP is that the MDF (Module Description File)<\/a> is in XML format. We therefore need a conversion.<\/p>\n

This PHP scripts will handle this and out put a local xml file in JSON\/JSONP format<\/p>\n

\"Screenshot<\/a><\/p>\n

You can test the output for the Paris module<\/a><\/p>\n

here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In this case the local MDF file is paris_010.xml<\/a> and we request JSONP output using the function “callback”.<\/p>\n

If we skip the<\/p>\n

&jsonp=callback<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

we get pure JSON output instead<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The script can be downloaded here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To get a XML file in JavaScript can be difficult due to the same origin policy.\u00a0 CORS is on solution but using\u00a0 JSONP is a much simpler solution also because JavaScript kind of like the JSON format. The problem here for VSCP is that the MDF (Module Description File) is in XML format. We therefore […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[53,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-vscp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4raCZ-o4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grodansparadis.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grodansparadis.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grodansparadis.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grodansparadis.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grodansparadis.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/grodansparadis.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2946,"href":"https:\/\/grodansparadis.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions\/2946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grodansparadis.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grodansparadis.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grodansparadis.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}