I'd like to know if there is a better approach to creating re-usable ajax object for jquery.
This is my un-tested code.
var sender = {
function ajax(url, type, dataType, callback) {
$.ajax({
url: url,
type: type,
dataType: dataType,
beforeSend: function() {
onStartAjax();
},
error: function(XMLHttpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown) {
callback.failure(XMLHttpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown);
},
success: function(data, textStatus) {
callback.success(data, textStatus);
},
complete: function (XMLHttpRequest, textStatus) {
onEndAjax();
}
});
},
function onStartAjax() {
// show loader
},
function onEndAjax() {
// hide loader
}
};
<script type="text/javascript">
var callback = {
success: function(data, textStatus) {
$('#content').html(data);
},
failure: function(XMLHttpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown) {
alert('Error making AJAX call: ' + XMLHttpRequest.statusText + ' (' + XMLHttpRequest.status + ')');
}
}
sender.ajax(url, type, dataType, callback);
</script>
You can set the basic options that you always have the same separately.
for instance if you always use the same thing here:
type: type,
dataType: dataType,
for those types, you can set them separately.
Here is how you do that type of thing:
$.ajaxSetup({
type: "POST",
contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
data: "{}"
});
NOW those are set and you can simplify your individual ajax calls.
EDIT:
NOTE: Setting parameters to $.ajax override these defaults. Thus presetting “data” to an empty JSON string is safe and desired. This way, any $.ajax call that does specify a data parameter will function as expected, since the default will not be used. This helps avoid issues that can be difficult to find on a deployed site.
Here is what I did:
var ajaxclient = (function (window) {
function _do(type, url)
{
return $.ajax({
url:url,
type:type,
dataType:'json',
beforeSend: _onStartAjax
}).always(_onEndAjax);
}
function _onStartAjax()
{
console.log("starting ajax call");
}
function _onEndAjax()
{
console.log("finished ajax call");
}
return {
do:_do
}
}(this));
Example usage:
ajaxclient.do("get","http://...").done(function(data) {console.log(data);})
I'd probably go the whole hog and have an Ajax Object create.
var ajax = new MySuperAjax(url, data);
ajax.onComplete = function(){}
or similar. You seem to have a halfway between a function which has some defaults it extends with those you apss in and an object for it.
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