Wait until all jQuery Ajax requests are done?

Question

How do I make a function wait until all jQuery Ajax requests are done inside another function?

In short, I need to wait for all Ajax requests to be done before I exe

Answer 1

I'm using size check when all ajax load completed

function get_ajax(link, data, callback) {
    $.ajax({
        url: link,
        type: "GET",
        data: data,
        dataType: "json",
        success: function (data, status, jqXHR) {
            callback(jqXHR.status, data)
        },
        error: function (jqXHR, status, err) {
            callback(jqXHR.status, jqXHR);
        },
        complete: function (jqXHR, status) {
        }
    })
}

function run_list_ajax(callback){
    var size=0;
    var max= 10;
    for (let index = 0; index < max; index++) {
        var link = 'http://api.jquery.com/ajaxStop/';
        var data={i:index}
        get_ajax(link,data,function(status, data){
            console.log(index)
            if(size>max-2){
                callback('done')
            }
            size++
            
        })
    }
}

run_list_ajax(function(info){
    console.log(info)
})

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

Answer 2

If you need something simple; once and done callback

        //multiple ajax calls above
        var callback = function () {
            if ($.active !== 0) {
                setTimeout(callback, '500');
                return;
            }
            //whatever you need to do here
            //...
        };
        callback();

Answer 3

I found simple way, it using shift()

function waitReq(id)
{
  jQuery.ajax(
  {
    type: 'POST',
    url: ajaxurl,
    data:
    {
      "page": id
    },
    success: function(resp)
    {
      ...........
      // check array length if not "0" continue to use next array value
      if(ids.length)
      {
        waitReq(ids.shift()); // 2
      )
    },
    error: function(resp)
    {
      ....................
      if(ids.length)
      {
        waitReq(ids.shift());
      )
    }
  });
}

var ids = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5];    
// shift() = delete first array value (then print)
waitReq(ids.shift()); // print 1

Answer 4

On the basis of @BBonifield answer, I wrote a utility function so that semaphore logic is not spread in all the ajax calls.

untilAjax is the utility function which invokes a callback function when all the ajaxCalls are completed.

ajaxObjs is a array of ajax setting objects [http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/].

fn is callback function

function untilAjax(ajaxObjs, fn) {
  if (!ajaxObjs || !fn) {
    return;
  }
  var ajaxCount = ajaxObjs.length,
    succ = null;

  for (var i = 0; i < ajaxObjs.length; i++) { //append logic to invoke callback function once all the ajax calls are completed, in success handler.
    succ = ajaxObjs[i]['success'];
    ajaxObjs[i]['success'] = function(data) { //modified success handler
      if (succ) {
        succ(data);
      }
      ajaxCount--;
      if (ajaxCount == 0) {
        fn(); //modify statement suitably if you want 'this' keyword to refer to another object
      }
    };
    $.ajax(ajaxObjs[i]); //make ajax call
    succ = null;
  };

Example: doSomething function uses untilAjax.

function doSomething() {
  // variable declarations
  untilAjax([{
    url: 'url2',
    dataType: 'json',
    success: function(data) {
      //do something with success data
    }
  }, {
    url: 'url1',
    dataType: 'json',
    success: function(data) {
      //do something with success data
    }
  }, {
    url: 'url2',
    dataType: 'json',
    success: function(response) {
      //do something with success data
    }
  }], function() {
    // logic after all the calls are completed.
  });
}

Answer 5

$.when doesn't work for me, callback(x) instead of return x worked as described here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/13455253/10357604

Answer 6

Look at my solution:

1.Insert this function (and variable) into your javascript file:

var runFunctionQueue_callback;

function runFunctionQueue(f, index, callback) {

  var next_index = index + 1

  if (callback !== undefined) runFunctionQueue_callback = callback;

  if (f[next_index] !== undefined) {
    console.log(index + ' Next function avalaible -> ' + next_index);
    $.ajax({
      type: 'GET',
      url: f[index].file,
      data: (f[index].data),
      complete: function() {
        runFunctionQueue(f, next_index);
      }
    });
  } else {
    console.log(index + ' Last function');
    $.ajax({
      type: 'GET',
      url: f[index].file,
      data: (f[index].data),
      async: false,
      complete: runFunctionQueue_callback
    });
  }
}

2.Buil an array with your requests, like this:

var f = [
           {file: 'file_path', data: {action: 'action', data: 'any_data}},
           {file: 'file_path', data: {action: 'action', data: 'any_data}},
           {file: 'file_path', data: {action: 'action', data: 'any_data}},
           {file: 'file_path', data: {action: 'action', data: 'any_data}}
        ];

3.Create callback function:

function Function_callback() {
  alert('done');
}

4.Call the runFunctionQueue function with parameters:

runFunctionQueue(f, 0, QuestionInsert_callback);
// first parameter: array with requests data
// second parameter: start from first request
// third parameter: the callback function