Thread: Using JSONP to request information from IP Request

Hi there,

I am very new to JS so please bare with me. I am wanting to use promises in order to retrieve information from a JSONP request. Ive requested the country code however it appears to not be working. Ive done an if statement to ask if myFunction2 does not equal GB to show a random picture. However this field from this JSON request DOES equal GB.

Code:

<script>    
			var promise = new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
			  // do a thing, possibly async, then…
			 function myFunction2(){
                    $.ajax({
                    url: '//freegeoip.net/json/',
                    type: 'POST',
                    dataType: 'jsonp',
                    success: function (location) {
                        myipaddress = location.country_code;
                        return location.country_code;
                        }
                 })
			  };
			  if (myFunction2 !== "GB") {
			    resolve("Stuff worked");
			  } else {
			    reject(new Error("It broke"));
			  }
			});
			
			promise
				.then(result => console.log(result))
			  .catch(error => {
			  	fallbackimg = new Image();
			  	fallbackimg.src = "https://i.stack.imgur.com/N6iem.png?s=64&g=1";
			  	fallbackimg.alt ="";
			  	document.getElementById("demo").appendChild(fallbackimg);
			  });
		</script>

Could someone please advise where to look to correct this issue please

Thankyou
Rustic

Originally Posted by DaveyErwin

If myFunction2 is a function
that returns "GB" then its like this ...
if (myFunction2() !== "GB") {

Hi Davey,

Thankyou very much for pointing this out to me

Rustic