How can I get jQuery to perform a synchronous, rather than asynchronous, Ajax request?

Question

I have a JavaScript widget which provides standard extension points. One of them is the beforecreate function. It should return false to prevent an

Answer 1

Because XMLHttpReponse synchronous operation is deprecated I came up with the following solution that wraps XMLHttpRequest. This allows ordered AJAX queries while still being asycnronous in nature, which is very useful for single use CSRF tokens.

It is also transparent so libraries such as jQuery will operate seamlessly.

/* wrap XMLHttpRequest for synchronous operation */
var XHRQueue = [];
var _XMLHttpRequest = XMLHttpRequest;
XMLHttpRequest = function()
{
  var xhr   = new _XMLHttpRequest();
  var _send = xhr.send;

  xhr.send = function()
  {
    /* queue the request, and if it's the first, process it */
    XHRQueue.push([this, arguments]);
    if (XHRQueue.length == 1)
      this.processQueue();
  };

  xhr.processQueue = function()
  {
    var call = XHRQueue[0];
    var xhr  = call[0];
    var args = call[1];

    /* you could also set a CSRF token header here */

    /* send the request */
    _send.apply(xhr, args);
  };

  xhr.addEventListener('load', function(e)
  {
    /* you could also retrieve a CSRF token header here */

    /* remove the completed request and if there is more, trigger the next */
    XHRQueue.shift();
    if (XHRQueue.length)
      this.processQueue();
  });

  return xhr;
};