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Progress Events

This example demonstrates how to display the progress of an asynchronous request. Rather than saying d3.json(url, callback), use d3.json(url) to first create the request object, then register a "progress" event listener with xhr.on before starting the request with xhr.get.

You can also use this pattern to listen to "load" and "success" events separately. For example:

var xhr = d3.json(url)
    .on("progress", function() { console.log("progress", d3.event.loaded); })
    .on("load", function(json) { console.log("success!", json); })
    .on("error", function(error) { console.log("failure!", error); })
    .get();

This pattern also lets you cancel in-progress requests using xhr.abort, register custom headers with xhr.header, and even change the HTTP method and request body using xhr.send.