how to wait for an ajax call to return

Question

I\'m trying to use JQuery although i\'m struggling to successfully wait for a ajax call to succeed before executing further code. Is there a way to wait for an ajax to call

Answer 1

You can use success or complete callbacks. Success fires if the server returns a 200. Complete will fire when the request is finished, regardless of the response status.

$.ajax({
    url: "/path/to/action",
    success: function() {
        alert("do something if it's successful");
    },
    complete: function(request, status) {
        alert("do something when it's finished, regardless of success.");
    }
});

or you can do a synchronous call:

$.ajax({
    url: "/path/to/action",
    async: false
});