A quick introduction

Jsdap is composed of 4 separate files: parser.js, xdr.js, api.js and vbscript.js. If you run make, they will be combined and compressed together with header.js into a single file jsdap.js, which should be used in your web applications.

The API is as simple as it gets:

loadDataset(url, callback [, proxy])

This will load the metadata from an OPeNDAP url, and return it to your callback function as a Javascript object identical to pydap's JSON response (http://pydap.org/2.x/responses/json.html).

Note that if the server is on a different domain you need to specify a proxy to handle the requests. There's a simple proxy written in Python that comes together with jsdap.

loadData(url, callback [, proxy])

This functions read the data from a .dods URL (http://example.com/dataset.dods?var1,var2&var3>0), returning it as a nested list. This is the data for the whole dataset, so the outer list corresponds to the dataset objects, and each contained list is the data of a given variable, an so on recursively.

There are a couple of demos of increasing complexity in the examples directory.

Limitations

Due to the XHR policy on not allowing cross-domain requests, you need a proxy to handle external datasets.

License

Jsdap is (c) 2007--2009 Roberto De Almeida, licensed under the MIT license.