Freecodecamp: Render Images from Data Sources - Bracket Notation

[alexalexson143]

Challenge Render Images from Data Sources has an issue.
User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.87 Safari/537.36.
Please describe how to reproduce this issue, and include links to screenshots if possible.

My code:

<script>
  $(document).ready(function() {

    $("#getMessage").on("click", function() {
      $.getJSON("/json/cats.json", function(json) {

        var html = "";

        json.forEach(function(val) {
          html += "<div class = 'cat'>";

          // Only change code below this line.
          html += "<img src = '" + val["imageLink"] + "'>";

          // Only change code above this line.

          html += "</div>";

        });

        $(".message").html(html);

      });
    });
  });
</script>

<div class="container-fluid">
  <div class = "row text-center">
    <h2>Cat Photo Finder</h2>
  </div>
  <div class = "row text-center">
    <div class = "col-xs-12 well message">
      The message will go here
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class = "row text-center">
    <div class = "col-xs-12">
      <button id = "getMessage" class = "btn btn-primary">
        Get Message
      </button>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

Forgive me if I don't know the correct terms. Bracket notation (val["imageLink]") not accepted as a correct solution even though clicking Get Message does the same thing with Dot Notation (val.imageLink).

[ajain17]

This seems to be working val[imageLink]. I think it needs to be fixed. The correct way of getting value of a key should be using quotes. Take a look at this fiddle for explanation:
https://jsfiddle.net/ro73j30s/1/

I think we need to get it fixed. Can someone else confirm it?

[raisedadead]

_help needed in triage._
/cc @FreeCodeCamp/moderators

[dhcodes]

This is an issue with the test

As @ajain17 points out val[imageLink] does work, but only as a side effect of not escaping the . in the Regex test, thereby letting any value replace the [. The test needs to be re-written to strictly search for dot notation and also allow bracket notation with required quotes as in: val["imageLink"].

[Manish-Giri]

@dhcodes @raisedadead I'd like to give this a shot!

[systimotic]

@Manish-Giri How's progress on this?

[Manish-Giri]

@systimotic My bad - just getting to this, been working on some of my other PRs, and then the break...

[systimotic]

@Manish-Giri No problem! Thanks for the PR!