[bug] Error: SimpleJekyllSearch --- You must specify a json

[nakoo]

I changed recent version updated on github and I get this error message.
My json setting is just default. Please check it.

[lengerfulluse]

I got the similar error about can't found the search.json. My search json just put in the path root. Could you please help to check it?

[christian-fei]

Thanks for reporting, and sorry for the inconvenience :(

Could you please post the code how you initialize the library?

[daviddarnes]

If this is related to the initialising the plugin then I might have had the same issue basekit/docs.basekit.com#89

[nakoo]

@christian-fei: Here you go. =)

SimpleJekyllSearch({
searchInput: document.getElementById('input'),
resultsContainer: document.getElementById('results'),
dataSource: '/search.json'
})

[christian-fei]

Ah i see, it seems you're missing the 'json' field (instead of dataSource).
I did a terrible job at versioning this time, will do better in the future.

https://github.com/christian-fei/Simple-Jekyll-Search#json-stringjson-required

Please let me know if it works, and sorry for the waste of time

[nakoo]

@christian-fei: Oh, I didn't notice that. It works! Thanks =)

[daviddarnes]

@christian-fei that'll explain why my version breaks when I update. Could this be documented somewhere for people who upgrade their version of the package?

[lengerfulluse]

@christian-fei would you please help to take a look my code? It just keep with the error of 'failed to get JSON'(as the the screenshot state above).
Here is my javascript code:

<script src="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/dest/jekyll-search.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">
  SimpleJekyllSearch({
    searchInput: document.getElementById('search'),
    resultsContainer: document.getElementById('results-container'),
    json: '/search.json',
    searchResultTemplate: '<li><a href="{url}" title="{desc}">{title}</a></li>',
    noResultsText: 'No results found',
    limit: 10,
    fuzzy: false,
    exclude: ['Welcome']
  })
</script>

and my css code is as following:

       <div class="nav-search">
            <span class="search-input"><input type="text" id="search" placeholder="Article..." /></span>
            <span class="icon"><i class="fa fa-search"></i></span>
            <ul id="results-container"></ul>
        </div>

Thanks in advance!

[nakoo]

@lengerfulluse: Did you add simple_search_filter.rb file to _plugins folder?
https://github.com/christian-fei/Simple-Jekyll-Search#if-search-isnt-working-due-to-invalid-json
also check in json file whether to have set up 'remove_chars'.
I think the problem is occurred for the setting of full-text search.

[christian-fei]

@lengerfulluse I think it's because of an invalid JSON,

Simple-Jekyll-Search/src/JSONLoader.js

Line 14 in 77c80aa

callback(err, null)

Try to validate it here: http:https://jsonlint.com/

[lengerfulluse]

Wow, It did was caused by the setting of full-text search, which caused a invalid JSON.
Cool! Thanks @nakoo and @christian-fei !

[lengerfulluse]

Sorry guys, I just found that it only work in localhost( i run jekyll s , and search plugin can work well on localhost:4000). Unfortunately thing is that once i put the code into online(http:https://t.hengwei.me), it still got the same error of failed to get /search.json. Do you have ever met the similar problems? Thanks in advance!

[stramargio]

First of all, thanks in advance for your code!

Here the problem still remains...
JSON is well formatted, the path is in the right place, but it still got the same error:

Uncaught Error: SimpleJekyllSearch --- failed to get JSON (/search.json)

Here the way I initialize the plugin:

SimpleJekyllSearch({
  searchInput: document.getElementById('search-input'),
  resultsContainer: document.getElementById('results-container'),
  json: '/search.json'
});

And this is the well-formatted json... Any idea?

[una]

I was getting the same problem, @kentoo -- adding the plugin to strip characters solved it for me (it turns out I had some @ in a tag (for @import) and it was creating invalid json

[stramargio]

It's true! Thanks a lot.

[christian-fei]

Thanks @una !