Sencha Touch Cookbook

Converting incoming JSON data into models using JsonReader

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.

Getting ready

Make sure that you have set up your development environment by following the recipes outlined in Chapter 1.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps:

1. Create and open a new file named users.json and paste the following into it:

   {"users": [{ "id": "1", "name" : "Ajit Kumar", "age" : "32", "phone": "555-555-5555", "email": "[e-mail]" ...