My first attempt at it, and the testing function does not seem to work:
$.getJSON('questions.json', function(data) {alert(data);}) I am trying to alert all the contents of the JSON file which is really short. What am I doing wrong? and why am I getting [object Object]
JSON is a way of encoding an object as a string so that it can be passed around a network easily. When jQuery receives a string containing JSON data, it deserializes it -- it turns it back into a Javascript object. This object is passed to your success handler -- you're calling it data.
When you try to alert a Javascript object, it will give you [object Object], rather than a readable form.
You should use a Javascript console as provided by your browser to debug data like this, with the console.log method.
the value of data is a JSON object, so data itself, when passed via alert(); would dump as [object Object].
Try console.log(data); instead of alert();
For my debugging and testing I use firebug, which has a nice little console tab.
you data is json object, so you are getting [object Object] as alert.
questions.jsonreturning?