Wait for Ajax call in function to end, THEN return object to an outside variable

问题

I want to use JavaScript asynchronous, as it was intended. I want to assign the recieved data/objects to as many variables as I'll need (DataModel01, DataModel02, DataModel03 and so on). The idea is that my need for API data change all the time, and I want to only have to define once where to get the data (API endpoint), and in what local variable/object to store it.

The way I'm doing it, it returns the object with recieved data from the fetchDataJSON() function. However, how do I make the return wait for the Ajax to finish? I've tried several things, including timers and callbacks, and nothing works at all.

I saw the other questions regarding ajax and async, and generally it was suggested to use callbacks. So I believe I might be offtrack, but I need a hand to figure out a way to deal with this gracefully. Do I really need to mess with timers and ugly solutions like that?

function fetchDataJSON(endpointUrl) {
    var returnObj = [];

    // Ajax call
    $.ajax({
      type: "GET",
      url: endpointUrl,
      dataType: 'json',
      async: true,
      success: updateData,
      error: handleError
    });

    function updateData(data) {
        returnObj = data;
    }

    function handleError(XHR, message, error) {
        console.log("Failed XHR");
    }

    return returnObj; // Return JSON object
}

var DataModel01 = fetchDataJSON( "http://mydata.com/endpoint/sweetjson" );
var DataModel02 = fetchDataJSON( "http://mydata.com/endpoint/somethingelse" );

EDIT: I found a working solution now, yihar. I've marked the answer by Karman as accepted, as it was the one closest to the solution. My final solution, which was also inspired by a coworker, is as follows:

var DataModel01 = [];
var DataModel02 = [];

function fetchDataJSON(endpointUrl, callbackWhenDone) {
    // Ajax call
    $.ajax({
      type: "GET",
      url: endpointUrl,
      dataType: 'json',
      async: true,
      success: updateData,
      error: handleError
    });

    function updateData(data) {
        callbackWhenDone(data);
    }

    function handleError(XHR, message, error) {
        console.log("Failed XHR");
    }
}

fetchDataJSON(
    "http://mydata.com/endpoint/sweetjson",
    function(newData) { DataModel01 = newData; }
);

fetchDataJSON(
    "http://mydata.com/endpoint/somethingelse",
    function(newData) { DataModel02 = newData; }
);

回答1:

function fetchDataJSON(endpointUrl, callback) {
function updateData(data) {
    returnObj = data;

  callback(returnObj)
}

fetchDataJSON( "http://mydata.com/endpoint/sweetjson", getJson );

enter code here

function getJson(returnObj)
 {
    //do work with returnObj
  }