Updated GORM Labs and JQuery PeriodicalUpdater

I just tried this:

			function submitMyForm(){
 
				$.ajax({
					type: "GET",
					url: this.action,
					success: function(html){
						console.log(html);
					},
					complete: function(htr){
						console.log(htr);
						return false;
						if(htr.status == 200){
							console.log(htr);
						}
 
					}
				});        
 
				return false;
			};

and the “complete” method does return to me the xmlHttpRequest object so I can fetch the responseText etc.. I’m not sure if this will help you at all – it was just a weak proof of concept.

There is also this option:

http://docs.jquery.com/Ajax/ajaxSuccess#callback

Which I think gets executed everything an ajax requiest is completed successfully.. It has a method signature like so:

function (event, XMLHttpRequest, ajaxOptions) {
  this; // dom element listening
}

Hope this helps
Bill

Hrm, weird.. I put up a very rough demo here: http://oak.sbcs.com/demo/jqpost.html that shows that my “complete” is getting back an htr object.. You need firebug enabled on the panel to see the results since I’m using console.log()

I dunno. I am using an older version of JQuery even (1.2.6)

I think htr.responseXML will return null unless your response header indicates a content type of XML (http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/#response-entity-body0). Since you are returning JSON I think responseXML will always be null.

Scratch that – now I see you can optionally have it return XML so you probably already tested it that way as well.

Now I realize I’m just bastardizing your code here but perhaps this will help:

 
				var returnData;
 
ajaxSettings.success = function(data){
					returnData = data;
				};
				ajaxSettings.complete = function(xhr,success) {
					if(success ==='success'){
						var data = xhr.responseText.trim();
						if(settings.success) { settings.success(returnData); }
						timerInterval = settings.minTimeout;
						if(callback) callback(returnData);
						returnData = '';
					}
 
 
				};

So basically I capture the parsed data in success to be returned in complete.. (this handles json parsing/xml, all that stuff that jquery does automatically) and gives you access to both it and the xhr..

However, I don’t really notice this periodically updating after the inital page load (I copied your source.json and manually changed it while watching the page..

In fact just to see if it would periodically run I updated getdata to this:

				function getdata() {console.log('running'); $.ajax(ajaxSettings); }

to show me that it was going to do it’s thing.. but I only ever see “running” logged one time.

Anyway, hope this helps

Hrm. Well I don’t get the xhr in success; but in complete as I illustrated in my 7:35am post today. In success I get the nicely evaluated JSON object data which I store in a class level variable called “returnData” so that I have access to it in complete (because in complete you get the raw JSON string and not the evaluated object out of xhr).

I’ll put my updated demo out on oak.sbcs.com – granted, this won’t have the recall stuff – but it should show you how it’s working for me.

My demo polls “source.txt” instead of source.json becuase that server won’t serve file extensions that aren’t registered with it.

http://oak.sbcs.com/demo/jqpost.html

Bill

It almost works :O(
On line 71 I get the following error in firefox:
xhr.responseText.trim is not a function
var rawData = xhr.responseText.trim();\r\n

It seems string.trim() isn’t implemented for some reason. I get the same error in chrome as well.