Using a for loop in a jQuery AJAX request

Question

I'm new to JavaScript and jQuery, so I'm not even sure this is possible

I'm trying to run an AJAX request in which a search runs through an array of titles so that I can then later store other information that is returned for later use. Can I put a for loop inside the query parameter to achieve this? My code is below but it's not returning anything right now.

$.ajax('http://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie', {
    type: 'GET',
    dataType: 'jsonp',
    data: {
        api_key: myApiKey,
        query: for (var i = 0; i < movies.length; i++) {
            console.log(movies[i]);
        },
        success: function (result) {
            console.log(result);
        }
    }); // end search ajax request

You can't do that with that code, but you can wrap the whole thing in a loop. — alex
– alex, Commented Mar 7, 2014 at 2:10

xdazz · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-07 02:12:42Z

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You can't use for loop as a value of a object property.

If the api accepts an array to as the query parameter, then just pass the array to it.

        data : {
            api_key : myApiKey,
            query : movies
        }

If it accepts a string with comma splited string, then convert the array to string by join method.

        data : {
            api_key : myApiKey,
            query : movies.join()
        }

And if the api doesn't support multiple move search for one query, you have to make a ajax request inside a loop.

answered Mar 7, 2014 at 2:12

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Danielle Webb Over a year ago

Thanks. Putting the ajax request inside a for loop was what worked. Just took me a bit to think about how to write that. But it's working now.

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