JSONP Support

We are working on experimental JSONP support. This will only work for GET requests.

To make a JSONP request use the following syntax:

https://api.playnice.ly/v1/project/123/item/456/show/?callback=<method_name>

If there is an error then the data returned will have a property called ‘error_message’ which will describe the error (in fact this is the same object we described on the errors page).

Example jQuery Code

We love jQuery. Here’s a JSONP example:

// simple function to run the code when the "Go" button is pressed
$("#go").click(function(){
	
	// use the user inputted values
	var username = $("#username").val();
	var password = $("#password").val();
	var projectId = $("#project").val();
	var itemId = $("#item").val();

	// define the url we want. If we add the empty callback parameter 
	// then jQuery knows that we want to use JSONP.
	var url = "https://" + username + ":" + password + 
			  "@api.playnice.ly/v1/" + 
	          "project/" + projectId + 
			  "/item/" + itemId + 
			  "/show/?callback=?";

	$.getJSON(url, function(data) {
		if(data.error_message) {
			alert("There has been an error: " 
					+ data.error_message);
		} else {
			alert("The item title is: '" + data.subject + 
					"' . It is '" + data.status + "'");
		}
	});
});

You can see this in action on our JSONP example page

For more information on how to use JSONP see here