[Developers] RFE: wrap trans/blurb calls in JSON

[Shug Boabby]

actually... hold that thought, obtaining JSONP through GWT was
actually quite trivial from the code I was using. All working now...
somebody please document this! No need for the horrible iframe hack
anymore, but I would suggest that JSON be supported too :-D

2008/7/22 Shug Boabby <shug.boabby at gmail.com>:
> excellent... although it's not quite there. I need to be able to
> obtain proper JSON so that I can  counteract the Same Point of Origin
> restrictions. Perhaps it is possible to do this with JSONP, but I'm
> using GWT and the code I'm using can only handle JSON.
>
> 2008/7/22 Nick Thompson <nix at metaweb.com>:
>> trans/raw does actually accept a "callback=" argument that will make
>> it return JSONP (not JSON, but you can chop off the jsonp wrapper).
>>
>> JSONP handling for binary types (e.g. images) may not work, there have
>> been limited use cases for this.  the right thing is probably to base64
>> the binary content, maybe you could construct a data: url with it or
>> something to actually display an image in the browser.
>>
>> Using JSONP for text/* types is well-tested - it's how Mjt applications
>> fetch articles, for example.
>>
>>     nick
>>
>> Shug Boabby wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have a request... would it be possible to return trans/blurb calls
>>> as JSON, if say a parameter 'json=true' was set? This would be great
>>> as it would allow programmatic access to the blurb instead of having
>>> to use an iframe.
>>>
>>> Note that the documentation on accessing trans/blurb is completely
>>> broken, many of the sentences are just missing words. I suspect this
>>> may be something to do with the use of iframe tags or something in
>>> your markup.
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