Isn't that a loose use of the term "success" originating in confusion
caused by abstraction?
We call it "success" because that's it's a word describing what we
expect it to do. The browser's actual xhr has no concept of "success" on
it's own, that is determined by the library/application based on
completion, http error codes, etc... The real "success" we are firing
that method in jQuery on to xhr is actually the concept of completion of
the xhr call, coupled with a non-fatal status code. The browser ends up
firing "success" because by calling abort we cancel all the remote
interaction and bring it to it's finished state, hence it is complete.
readyState == 4 is really "DONE", not "success", it's an indication that
the xhr has been opened and whether it succeeded, failed, or aborted the
request is over and is no longer doing anything.
I think calling error: with a statusText of "abort" would be the more
intuitive way of handling this.
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]
John Resig wrote:
It's not really clear what it should call - maybe it should only call
the complete request and neither the error or success. When I looked
into it recently some browsers called success and some called nothing
(Opera). I normalized it to success across the board but I'm open to
further debate.
--John
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 7:47 PM, alexander farkas
<a.farkas...@googlemail.com> wrote:
Is it intended, that aborting an Ajax will call the complete calback
with the status "success" + the success-callback? In most cases noone
wants to handle an aborted request in his success-callback. I think,
you should introduce a new xhr-event/callback 'abort'.
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