Not able to bind data from local json to view polymer 2

Question

I am using Polymer 2 and want to bind data from a local json file. But each time I tried it it is not able to fetch the json file only.

There are 2 ways I have tried to achieve it with:

1) USING

<iron-ajax url="data/employees.json" handle-as="json" last-response="{{items}}" auto>
</iron-ajax>

Folder Structure:

<iron-list items="{{items}}" as="item">
    <template>
        <div class="item">
            <b>[[item.nickname]]</b>
            <p>[[item.phone]]</p>
        </div>
    </template>
</iron-list> 

I have also imported both iron-ajax and iron-list

2) USE $.get to extract data fron json in start and put it in a variable to bind it to view.

<script>
    class IronListClass extends Polymer.Element {
        static get is() {return 'iron-comp'}

        ready() {
            super.ready();
            var that = this;
            // $.get('data/employees.json', function(data) {
            //     that.employees = $.parseJSON(data).results;
            //     console.log(that.employees);
            // });
            $.get('data/employees.json', function(data) {
            this.employees = $.parseJSON(data).results;
            console.log(this.employees);
            }.bind(this));
        }        
    }
    window.customElements.define(IronListClass.is, IronListClass);
</script>

tried with that = this also.

Answer 1

You may load the json file as follow example as its working at my app already.

   <iron-ajax 
            auto 
            url$="{{url}}" 
            handle-as="json" 
            last-response="{{loadedItems}}"
           >
    </iron-ajax>

...

     static get properties() { return { 
        url :{
            type:String,
            value() {return "./data/employees.json"; }
        }

...

    static get observers() { return ['checkJsonFileLoaded(loadedItems)']}

    checkJsonFileLoaded(j) {
       if (j) {
           this.set('items', j);
           console.log(items); //u should see the loaded json file. If so than the problem is iron-list (to publish the result)
       }
    }