One correction. The success callback gets only gets a text status. It
needs the HTTP status
so probably should pass in xhr object just as is done for the error
callback.
On Sep 7, 3:08 pm, John Snyders <jjsnyd...@rcn.com> wrote:
> I would like to add my opinion.
>
> I strongly believe that204is a success condition and should end up
> calling the success callback with null for data (or possibly an empty
> object {} if that would cause less backward compatibility problems)
> and the actual status (in this case204).
>
> Parsererror is not the right status since there was nothing to parse.
> The success callback has the status code and can make any decisions it
> needs to based on it.
>
> I think that viewing success from the protocol is the correct
> perspective. So what if the ajax call said it would accept application/
> json that just means that if there is a response that is the format I
> would like it in. It REST it is very reasonable for a resource to
> return204. It may also return other status such as 200 if there is
> data to return. So the REST client needs to be ready for either
> *success* case.
>
> As it currently stands I need to have checking in the error call back
> to convert the "error" to success for the next layer up, which seems
> ugly to me.
>
> As someone pointed out all status codes 2xx, 3xx are success. Not sure
> 3xx status codes apply - doesn't XHR follow redirects on its own? Most
> 3xx cases are handled by XHR internally and the ones that are not are
> already handled by jQuery. Anyway I agree that all 2xx, 3xx cases
> should call the success callback.
>
> I do not think individual callbacks for each status code are a good
> idea.
>
> Thanks,
> -John
>
> On Jul 24, 5:09 am, Nick Fitzsimons <n...@nickfitz.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > 2009/7/23 John Resig <jere...@gmail.com>:
>
> > > I guess that's a tangential issue, not really related to JSON - if a
> > > server
> > > returns a204(with no content) should we call success with a null or
> > > undefined data argument?
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