Jquery Ajax GET method nothing happend when success

Question

I have a RESTful web service which runs on Glassfish Application Server. When I invoke the web services with /GET HTTP method on cURL, stored entries are fetched to console. I want to make a jQuery REST client - when I click the button, it must alert me to the returned JSON or XML entries. But in success method, nothing happened.

Answer 1

this should help you debug the issue

$('#rename').click(function () {
    //alert( $(this).closest('td').prev().prev().text());
    var name = prompt('enter the new name');
    if (name) $.ajax({
        url: url() + '/rename',
        type: 'POST',
        data: { value: name,
            id: $(this).closest('tr').find('td :first').attr('value')
        },
        success: function (result) {
            alert('success');
            if (result.content == 1) {//location.reload();
                alert(name);
                //$(this).closest('td').prev().prev().text(name);
            }
        },
        error: function () {
            alert('error');
        }
    })
});

basically added a couple of extra points.

1. How do you know success is happening and result.context just isn't equal to 1, so added the alert('success');

2. How do you know it's resturning success at all? Added

   error: function () { alert('error'); }

3. you were missing a ; at the end. :)