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I'm getting a 404/notfound error on that link. Can you send me a valid one? Thanks.

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Hi sorry, yes that is on a local test (not public facing/access) basically its only an api that returns the data element (json_encoded) as {"total":"40"} , or another call returns something like {"id":"1","name":"my name","total":"1") ..... which results in same error indicating that the very first : is where a missing ; before statement must be .... how must a custom plugin/ data source be defined (I have one obviously calling these apis) which used types JSON but now I define JSONP (so not sure if a datasource which worked/works with JSON can simply just change type to JSONP (or is there some changes that must be made to handle JSONP ?

Thanks

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Oh, I think the problem is that your JSONP file isn't really JSONP. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSONP. JSONP is actually a script file that must be formatted like javascript and calls back the function passed in the URL. So for that example above, the file would need to look like:

jQuery20302740955555920611_1401453890633({
"total": 62
});

The main thing is that the function name changes randomly so you need to make sure your API endpoint is taking this into account when it creates the JSONP file.

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