jQuery getJSON() async false

Today I searched jQuery getJSON() async false because I needed my jQuery Ajax call to be synchronous. It turns out that getJSON is just an Ajax shortcut in jQuery that can not have any extra parameters passed to it according to a post at Stackoverflow.com and then confirmed in the jQuery doc . So I had to turn my call back to normal jQuery.ajax().

//before
$.getJSON(url, data, function(json){
                                //success code
                           });

//after
$.ajax({
  url: url,
  dataType: 'json',
  data: data,
  async: false,
  success: function(json){
                  //success code
               }
});

As you can see the shortcut code is well, shorter, but not as flexible as the basic ajax function. Shortcuts are nice but shouldn’t be leaned on for heavy lifting.