As we saw earlier in the chapter, a reader helps us in data loading and converting the incoming data into a model, which can then be added to a store. Based on the type of data, Sencha Touch provides two readers – JsonReader and XmlReader. In this recipe we will see how to make use of the JsonReader to read the JSON data and prepare a model out of it.
Make sure that you have set up your development environment by following the recipes outlined in Chapter 1.
Carry out the following steps:
Create and open a new file named
users.jsonand paste the following into it:{"users": [{ "id": "1", "name" : "Ajit Kumar", "age" : "32", "phone": "555-555-5555", "email": "[email protected]" }, { "id": "2", "name" : "Alok Ranjan", "age" : "32", "phone": "123-456-7890", "email": "[email protected]" }, { "id": "3", "name" : "Pradeep Lavania", ...