Comments on: jQuery.getScript()

By: Gazzah

Gazzah — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:51:14 +0000

Excellent - I should have remembered this from long time ago...
added the following:
var currentTime = new Date()
var URL = 'dataFiles/landSideDepartures.js?time=' + currentTime.getSeconds()
$.getScript(URL , function () {
....
and it works a treat.
Thanks Jimlay

Gary H

By: Jimlay

Jimlay — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:02:04 +0000

Gary,

The simplest solution is probably to append a random string or timestamp to your request url. I had this problem and there was some discussion below about different behavior in different versions of jQuery.

Just add ?time=TimestampToNearest30s

Then it will cache and work to your benefit and every 30s the request will get the new value.

By: Gary NH

Gary NH — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:24:51 +0000

I have a page that loads a script file every 30 secs (The script file is basically :
var numbers=[12,34,56,78] ) and is written by the server.
The file is caching so the data never changes. Any ideas?

Gary H

By: eager_learner

eager_learner — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 07:16:45 +0000

Hi everyone…
The script works fine if the request is successfull…
$.getScript(“test.js”, function(){
alert(“Script loaded and executed.”);
});

But how can we check whether the script is successfully loaded or not… If not, i just want to halt the execution…

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:34:59 +0000

Let's say I want to load a script, run it once, and then attach it to the window resize event. How would I use the script that is passed to the callback function?

$.getScript('path/to/script.js', function(s){
$(window).resize(function() {
// run the script again
});
});

By: Ux_web

Ux_web — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:32:11 +0000

You mean, in the loadScript options?
I think that the loadScript func does not have that option so, where do you put the code to override the “cache: true” ?

Thanks

By: indieinvader

indieinvader — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 01:46:16 +0000

Well, in this case IE is right. `utf8` is wrong, utf-8 and UTF-8, on the other hand, are correct.

By: Ambrauer

Ambrauer — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:23:40 +0000

UPDATE - Pulled bug report here: http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/7578

By: Ambrauer

Ambrauer — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:07:44 +0000

Looks like this changed with v1.4+. In previous versions, the current timestamp would get appended (going to look for a bug ticket, because this seems like a regression), but in the latest, it does not. The culprit seems to be this line:
if ( s.dataType == “script” && s.cache == null )
which was updated to:
if ( s.dataType === “script” && s.cache === null )
and no longer evaluates to true (s.cache is undefined, so == will evaluate to true, wheras === to false).

By: CharismaSilverlight

CharismaSilverlight — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 04:27:08 +0000

thanks..now i remember ,sander falise comment about multiple js file was a good solution ^,^;
thankyou..i am almost feeling like on dejavu becouse i see their comment like had me seem before..oO(from this site too ^,^..already fix..don't worry..);