Rather than an entire other function, what about just a {delay: ms} to .ajax
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire)
Miloš Rašić wrote:
> Here's a suggestion for a feature that I think would be useful to AJAX
> developers. Sometimes, we need an AJAX feature that could allow a user
> to cause a large number of consequent AJAX requests, for example in
> auto-complete for searches (like Google Suggest) or filter forms that
> submit whenever something is changed in them. In a case like this,
> especially when the user has a slow internet connection, we have no
> way of knowing if the AJAX responses will arrive in the same order as
> the requests were sent. A solution to this is to wait for some time to
> make sure that the user has stopped manipulating the controls that
> cause AJAX requests before sending a request. At the moment, I do it
> like this:
>
> function submit_filter() {
> $('#item_list').html('loading...');
> $.post('some url',$('#filter').serialize(),function(data) {
> $('#item_list').html(data);
> });
> return false;
> }
>
> $('.ajax_control').change(function() {
> clearTimeout(ajaxTimeout);
> ajaxTimeout = setTimeout(submit_filter,2000);
> });
>
> Basically, whenever a control is changed a timeout for ajax request is
> reset to 2 seconds. A request is sent only when a user changes
> something an hasn't made new changes last 2 seconds.
>
> Since this is a frequent use case, it would be great if there would be
> a $.post_delayed() function which would have additional 2 parameters:
> an id, which would be used to identify related controls, and a time
> interval to wait before submitting the request.
>
> >
>
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