How to reinitialize Owl Carousel after ajax call?

Question

I am trying to reinitialize owl carousel after a successful ajax call. The ajax call will change the data but the view should stay the same.I am having an issue where the view carousel structure will not reinitialize. I don't know where I did mistake.

Ajax Request

 $(document).on('click', '.category_list', function() {
    var category_id = $(this).attr('data-id');
    var _token = $('#_token').val();
    var param = 'category_id=' + category_id + '&_token=' + _token;
    $.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        datatype: "json",
        url: "/master/sub_category",
        data: param,
        success: function(result) {
            $('#test').html(result);
            var owl = $(".owl-carousel");
            owl.owlCarousel({
                items: 4,
                navigation: true
            });
        }
    });    
});

Controller Function

public function getImg() {
    $post_data = Request::all();
    $sub_img = $this->imgModel->getImgList($post_data);
    $sub_img_html = '';
    foreach ($sub_img ['data'] as $data_img ) {
        $img = '/img/sub_category/'.$data_img ['img'];            
        $sub_img_html .= '<div class="item">';
        $sub_img_html .= '<img src="'.$img.'" />';
        $sub_img_html .= '</div>';
    }
    echo $sub_img_html;
}

View

<div id="demo">
    <div id="test" class="owl-carousel">
        <?php
           if (!empty($img_category)) {
              foreach ($img_category as $imgcategory){
        ?>
        <div class="item">
          <img src='/img/sub_category/<?= imgcategory['subcategory_img'] ?>'/></div>
      <?php
           }
        }
     ?>
  </div>
</div>

Answer 1

As per your code I make changes please apply this I hope this code work full.

success: function(result) {            
            $('#demo').html('<div id="testing" class="owl-carousel"></div>');
            for(var i=0;i<result.length;i++){
                $(".owl-carousel").append('<div class="item"><img src="/img/sub_category/'+result[i].subcategory_img+'" /></div>');
            };
            var owl = $("#testing");
            owl.owlCarousel({
                items: 4,
                navigation: true
            });

Answer 2

I believe you will need to destroy and re-initalize the carousel. There is a destroy method you can call;

https://github.com/OwlCarousel2/OwlCarousel2/blob/develop/src/js/owl.carousel.js#L1391

or there is a refresh method;

https://github.com/OwlCarousel2/OwlCarousel2/blob/develop/src/js/owl.carousel.js#L608

or there is an update method;

https://github.com/OwlCarousel2/OwlCarousel2/blob/develop/src/js/owl.carousel.js#L569

I believe these can all be called;

$('.owl-gallery').owlCarousel('refresh');

Might be worth a try.