Pure JavaScript REST API call

Question

When I call function CallMe, I get a result from service but my HTML element has text undefined, because of service is still loading data. I try async, await on Test() but no results. I want this to be pure JS. What I do wrong?

 CallMe(){
   document.getElementById('testId').InnerHTML = Test();
}

function Test(){
    var request = new XMLHttpRequest(); // Create a request variable and assign a new XMLHttpRequest object to it.
    request.open('GET', 'https://some service'); // Open a new connection, using the GET request on the URL endpoint
    request.send();

    request.onload = async function () {
        var data = await JSON.parse(this.response);
        return data[0][0][0];
      }
}

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14220321/how-do-i-return-the-response-from-an-asynchronous-call — epascarello, Nov 03 '18 at 23:27

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Sep 17 '20 at 14:19

function CallMe() {
    var request = new XMLHttpRequest(); // Create a request variable and assign a new XMLHttpRequest object to it.
    request.open('GET', 'https://some service'); // Open a new connection, using the GET request on the URL endpoint
    request.send();
    
    request.onload = async function () {
        var data = JSON.parse(this.response);
        document.getElementById('testId').InnerHTML = data // depending on your response targert your desired property.
    }
}

just do one method and when the call returns a response assign the value to your testId div

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 17 '20 at 14:36

Rather than using XMLHttpRequest to make ajax call I recommend using fetch api as it uses Promises, which enables a simpler and cleaner API, avoiding callback hell and having to remember the complex API of XMLHttpRequest. (ref: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/03/introduction-to-fetch).

Using fetch api the your code in pure js will look like below.

fetch('https://some service')
.then( res => res.json() )
.then(response => {
    document.getElementById('testId').innerHTML = data[0][0][0];
}) 
.catch(error => console.error('Error:', error));

Pure JavaScript REST API call

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