jQuery
jQuery is a popular, cross-browser JavaScript library designed to simplify client-side scripting. It's widely used and can be integrated into Logi applications, allowing you to take advantage of a variety of components, effects, and features.
The following topics discuss how to work with jQuery and the JSON data format within Logi definitions:
About jQuery and JSON
jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animation, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development and is the most popular JavaScript library in use today. jQuery is free, open source software and provides capabilities for developers to create plug-ins on top of the JavaScript library. You can download the library and documentation, and learn more about it at the official jQuery website.
Logi Info features elements that make it easy to include the jQuery libraries, either from local copies or remotely via a URL, in your report definitions.
Google provides free online access to a number of development API libraries, including jQuery and jQuery UI. This allows you to work with jQuery without having to maintain a local copy of the libraries and the examples in this topic use this approach. More information is available at the Google Libraries API web page.
JavaScript Object Notation, or JSON, is a lightweight, text-based, open standard for data interchange and works with jQuery. It's derived from the JavaScript language for use representing simple data structures and associative arrays. The JSON format is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, serving as an alternative to XML. More information is available at the officialJSON website.
Logi Info features elements that make it easy to retrieve data from JSON data files into standard Logi datalayers and to convert datalayer XML data to the JSON format.