Using PhoneGap - AJAX JSON or JSONP requests ?

[Romain Pennes]

Hello,

I've been developing a Sencha Touch 1.1 project. It uses standard AJAX queries with Ext.Data.Store and JSON results. I tried the application in a browser by having the Html/JS files on the server which also returns JSON through AJAX queries.
It works greatly in that way.

Now, I've recently set up my Sencha Touch 1.1 project with PhoneGap to use it with Android. Which means I now have my Html/JS files wrapped in my Android app thanks to PhoneGap. The files are now in the phone, so to speak.

But my AJAX calls on the server don't work from the android app on my phone. (Even though the server can be reached from my phone).
I've been thinking the problem is due to the fact that i use standard AJAX JSON calls in the app.
Since the Html and JS files are located in the phone and i try to reach a distant server for my AJAX calls, do i need to setup JSONP calls with my app instead? Shouldn't standard AJAX/JSON queries work in that case?

[mitchellsimoens]

Is your url whitelisted?

[Romain Pennes]

Hello, thanks for your answer.

Is your url whitelisted?

No it is not because the URL is entered in the app by the user to point to his personal server.

Which means we can't know where the server is located until the user enters it in the app.
Therefore, we can't have a whitelist.

[Romain Pennes]

Thank you for your answer, I've finally managed to make it work.

I didn't know we could potentially allow access to any domain, which is what we need in our case.

<access origin=".*"/>

Including this line to the cordova.xml made the job.

Thanks.