Why is the parameter needed in funtion - javascript

I am trying to learn and understand XML. I found this example on W3schools.
There is a part where the function gets the parameter xml.
I dont understand why it needs this parameter is there someone who can explain this to me?
function loadDoc() {
var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200) {
myFunction(this);
}
};
xhttp.open("GET", "cd_catalog.xml", true);
xhttp.send();
}
function myFunction(xml) {
var i;
var xmlDoc = xml.responseXML;
var table="<tr><th>Artist</th><th>Title</th></tr>";
var x = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("CD");
for (i = 0; i <x.length; i++) {
table += "<tr><td>" +
x[i].getElementsByTagName("ARTIST")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue +
"</td><td>" +
x[i].getElementsByTagName("TITLE")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue +
"</td></tr>";
}
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = table;
}

xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200) {
console.log(this);
}
};
The this keyword refers to the context a certain function is running in. It might by an Object, usually its Window.
Examples
function hi(){
alert(this);//window
}
function person(){
this.hi=hi;
}
Mark=new Person();
Mark.hi();//mark
In your example, this is the xml object. You can access this.responseXML for example.
But js this doesnt behave like in other languages:
function inyourxmlcallback(){
alert(this);//xml
hi();//window
}
Function calls dont automatically bind this to the called functions. You need to do it manually:
hi.call(this);//xml object
W3 schools simply passes the context as a variable, to use it later.
Example:
var test=this;
alert(test);//window

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Pass parameters to GET-Request

G'morning folks,
I just have a small problem to fix this issue:
I have a page which should GET some data from a url when opening and the display in the own content. But the GET url contains Parameters from my url.
So:
1. Get Parameters from my URL like www.mydomain.com?test=1&test1=bla
2. open GET with this parameters (1 and bla) and display result
Here my current version:
<body>
<h3>Visa Informationen</h3>
<p id="data"></p>
<script>
var xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200) {
var myObj = JSON.parse(this.responseText);
document.getElementById("data").innerHTML = myObj.response.visa.content;
}
};
xmlhttp.open("GET", url, true);
xmlhttp.send();
</script>
<script>
function getURLParameter(name) {
var value = decodeURIComponent((RegExp(name + '=' + '(.+?)(&|$)').exec(location.search) || [, ""])[1]);
return (value !== 'null') ? value : false;
}
var param = getURLParameter('test');
if (param) document.getElementById("testnr").innerHTML = param;
var param1 = getURLParameter('test1');
if (param1) document.getElementById("testnr1").innerHTML = param1;
var url = "https://api01.otherdomain.com?test=" + param + "&test1" + param1 + "&trv=0&vis=1"
</script>
</body>
Any hint where the problem is with this code?
Kind regards,
Chris
It seems like you having issue with script execution order.
I assume that testnr element coming from your XML ajax request.
You have two script block in your HTML and it will executed while page load.
When second script block is running your fist XMLHttpRequest not completed so it not able to find given HTML tag document.getElementById("testnr").innerHTML
To overcome this issue you need to execute script only after XMLHttpRequest request is completed.
In your case :
var xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200) {
var myObj = JSON.parse(this.responseText);
document.getElementById("data").innerHTML = myObj.response.visa.content;
// Execute new created function here
SetValues();
}
};
xmlhttp.open("GET", url, true);
xmlhttp.send();
function getURLParameter(name) {
var value = decodeURIComponent((RegExp(name + '=' + '(.+?)(&|$)').exec(location.search) || [, ""])[1]);
return (value !== 'null') ? value : false;
}
function SetValues()
{
var param = getURLParameter('test');
if (param) document.getElementById("testnr").innerHTML = param;
var param1 = getURLParameter('test1');
if (param1) document.getElementById("testnr1").innerHTML = param1;
var url = "https://api01.otherdomain.com?test=" + param + "&test1" + param1 + "&trv=0&vis=1"
}
</script>
Okay, i fixed the matter.
Here my result which works fine for me:
<script>
function getURLParameter(name) {
var value = decodeURIComponent((RegExp(name + '=' + '(.+?)(&|$)').exec(location.search) || [, ""])[1]);
return (value !== 'null') ? value : false;
}
var param = getURLParameter('test');
var param1 = getURLParameter('test1');
var url = "https://api01.otherdomain.com?test=" + param + "&test1" + param1 + "&trv=0&vis=1"
</script>
<script>
var xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200) {
var myObj = JSON.parse(this.responseText);
document.getElementById("additionalContent").innerHTML = myObj.response.additionalContent;
document.getElementById("data").innerHTML = myObj.response.visa.content;
}
};
xmlhttp.open("GET", url, true);
xmlhttp.send();
</script>

XMLHttpRequest looping

I know this question has been asked before, but I tried to apply the answers with no results.
I'm trying to do multiple requests on the same domain with a for loop but it's working for the entire record of my array.
Here is the code I use:
function showDesc(str) {
var prod = document.getElementsByName("prod_item[]");
var xhr = [], i;
for (i = 0; i < prod.length; i++) {
var txtHint = 'txtHint10' + i;
(function(i) {
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
var url = "getDesc.php?q=" + str;
xhr.onreadystatechange = function () {
if (xhr.readyState == 4 && xhr.status == 200) {
document.getElementById(txtHint).innerHTML = xhr.responseText;
}
};
xhr.open("GET", url, false);
xhr.send();
})(i);
}
}
PHP
<select name="prod_item[]" id="prod_item.1" onchange="showDesc(this.options[this.selectedIndex].value)"></select>
<div id="txtHint100"></div>
and then I will use dynamic table for the prod_item field and div_id.
Is there any mistake in my code?

How to get multiple XMLHttpRequests to occur serially?

I have the following code, which works (sort of). When I run it, the page displays information about the two coins, but returns 'undefined' for the coin price. The call to alert() indicates that the getCoinPrice function is running AFTER the main code. How do you execute the code so that the function call happens serially? If that's not possible, would it be better to learn to use the Fetch API?
Here's the code, in its entirety:
<html>
<body>
<h2>Use the XMLHttpRequest to get the content of a file.</h2>
<p id="demo"></p>
<script>
function getCoinPrice(id) {
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
var URL = "https://api.coinmarketcap.com/v2/ticker/" + id + "/";
xhr.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (xhr.readyState == 4 && xhr.status == 200) {
var Obj = JSON.parse(xhr.responseText);
var price = Obj.data.quotes.USD.price;
alert(price);
return(price);
}
}
xhr.open("GET", URL, true);
xhr.send();
}
var xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200) {
var myObj = JSON.parse(this.responseText);
var coins = [ "BTC","ETH" ]
for(j=0; j < coins.length; j++) {
for(i=0; i < myObj.data.length; i++) {
if (myObj.data[i].symbol == coins[j]) {
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML +=
myObj.data[i].id + "," + myObj.data[i].name + "," +
myObj.data[i].symbol + "," +
getCoinPrice( myObj.data[i].id ) + "<br>" ;
}
}
}
}
};
xmlhttp.open("GET", "https://api.coinmarketcap.com/v2/listings/", true);
xmlhttp.send();
</script>
</body>
</html>

selection in a loop freezes my page

i'm a complete newbie when it comes to Js, trying to make some very simple script that takes a string of binary numbers from a txt document on my server using ajax, to then put it in a string var and change the first 0 it finds in a 1, using an if construct inside a loop.
Problem is, when the page tries to execute the if line, it simply freezes. Taking the same if construct out of the loop, the script is executed no problem, so i'm guessing it has something to do with either that or/and some fundamental misunderstanding of how Js scripts works in the first place.
Here is the script:
function loadPos()
{
var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.onreadystatechange = function()
{
if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200)
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = this.responseText;
};
xhttp.open("GET", "posizioni.txt", true);
xhttp.send();
}
function takeFirst()
{
var i=0;
var check=false;
var oldPos=[];
loadPos();
oldPos = document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML;
for(i=0;!check||i<10;i++)
{
if(oldPos[i]=="0")
{
oldPos[i]="1";
check=true;
}
}
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML=oldPos;
}
I don't see any use of loop in it if you can achieve the same without it. Please update your function to the following:
function takeFirst()
{
loadPos();
var oldPos = document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML;
if(oldPos.indexOf("0") > -1){
oldPos = oldPos.replace('0', '1');
}
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = oldPos;
}
I think you want for(i=0;!check && i<10;i++).
But there is another way to do this using break;
function loadPos()
{
var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.onreadystatechange = function()
{
if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200)
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = this.responseText;
};
xhttp.open("GET", "posizioni.txt", true);
xhttp.send();
}
function takeFirst()
{
var i=0;
var oldPos=[];
loadPos();
oldPos = document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML;
for(i=0;i<10;++i)
{
if(oldPos[i]=="0")
{
oldPos[i]="1";
break;
}
}
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML=oldPos;
}

Calling AJAX function after another one

I have something I cannot understand how to do it in AJAX. I have a sidebar and a div "content" in my page. The sidebar is made of button and onclick it call the classical function:
function loadDoc(url) {
var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (xhttp.readyState == 4 && xhttp.status == 200) {
document.getElementById("content").innerHTML = xhttp.responseText;
}
};
xhttp.open("GET", url, true);
xhttp.send();
}
It load the "url" of the button in the content. Well, at this point everything is ok. Now one of this url, say "TheUrl", is a document that contain title and so on, and a div "list" and in this list I would like to load an XML file. I have the function
function loadXML() {
var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (xhttp.readyState == 4 && xhttp.status == 200) {
myFunction(xhttp);
}
};
xhttp.open("GET", "file.xml", true);
xhttp.send();
}
function myFunction(xml) {
var i;
var xmlDoc = xml.responseXML;
var table="<ul>";
var x = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("ITEM");
for (i = 0; i <x.length; i++) {
table += "<li>" +
x[i].getElementsByTagName("ELEMENT")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue +
"</li>"
};
table += "</ul>";
document.getElementById("list").innerHTML = table;
}
But I have no idea how to load the function loadXML() after loadDoc("TheUrl") so that the Xml data appears in the div list that was create in the div content... I am clear ?? :D
I would like something like that in my sidebar:
<ul>
<li><button type="button" onclick=loadDoc("OtherUrl.html")>OtherUrl</button></li>
<li><button type="button" onclick=loadDoc("TheUrl.html").done(loadXML())>TheUrl</button></li>
</ul>
Thanks you in advance for your kind help.
You can just call the loadXML function in the onreadystaechange event of the first AJAX call like so:
xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (xhttp.readyState == 4 && xhttp.status == 200) {
document.getElementById("content").innerHTML = xhttp.responseText;
// call the other function
loadXML();
}

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