Store ajax json response into javascript variable using jquery

If you wish to make an ajax call, and assign response json into a variable directly...here is a small hack :

function getJson(url) {
 return JSON.parse($.ajax({
     type: 'GET',
     url: url,
     dataType: 'json',
     global: false,
     async:false,
     success: function(data) {
         return data;
     }
 }).responseText);
}

var myJsonObj = getJson('myjsonurl');