source: schedule/js/xmlrequest.js@ 16720

        function testData() 
        {
                //calls the xml request in a loop based on the current sources                
                var source = ['Mrk 421','Mrk 501'];
                for (i = 0; i<source.length; i++) {
                        testXMLData(i, source);
                }
        }

        function testXMLData(index, source) 
        {
                var testXML;
                testXML = new XMLHttpRequest();
                //NOTE: previous errors on the request was caused by appending "http://www.fact-project.org"
                testXML.open("GET","/smartfact/index.php?source="+escape(source[index])+"&time="+year+"-"+month+"-"+day,true);
                dataSource = new Array();
                testXML.onload=function() {
                        if (testXML.status==200)
                        {
                                line=testXML.responseText.split('\n');
                                dataSource.push(line);
                                if (dataSource.length == source.length)
                                        displayXMLData(dataSource, source); //this will be called when the last data from the list is read
                        }
                testXML.send();
        }

        function displayXMLData(dataSource, source)
        {
                //This function splits the lines of data per data source
                var dataGraph = new Array(source.length); 
                for (i=0; i<source.length; i++) {
                        dataGraph[i] = new Array(); //dataGraph contains the individual points for each source i
                        for(row=0;row<dataSource[i].length;row++)
                        {
                                rows=line[row].split(',');
                                dataGraph[i].push(rows[4]);
                                $('#data').append(i + ' GRAPH DATA ' + dataGraph[i]);
                        }
                }
        }