I am using the ThreeDots jQuery pulgin and it works great. I am having trouble using it on an ajax success event.
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: 'url',
success: function(value) {
$("#content").append(value);
$(".ellipsis").ThreeDots({max_rows:3});
}
});
I load some new data and append the new data to a div (this works great). When I call the ThreeDots function from inside the success event it takes about 1 minute to work and the browser is not responsive during this time. There are .ellipsis spans returned in the new data.
Is there a better way to be doing this? Is there something fundamentally wrong with my approach?
Update
#Nick, Thanks for your answer. I used this and I went one step further. The above still reruns on every ellipsis in content not just the newly returned ellipsis results.
I now do this:
$(value).appendTo("#content").find('.ellipsis' + document.getElementById('hidPage').value).ThreeDots({max_rows:3});
$("#hidPage").val(($("#hidPage").val()-0) + 1);
You can run the .ThreeDots() plugin only on the .ellipsis elements in the returned response, instead of re-running it on all of them, like this:
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: 'url',
success: function(value) {
$(value).appendTo("#content").find('.ellipsis').ThreeDots({max_rows:3});
}
});
You can't chain it the reverse way because .ThreeDots() isn't chainable (it returns a custom object), but the above version should work fine.
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I have built a weather website that calls the flickr API 1st, then calls the yahoo API for the weather. The problem is that the data from the ajax call - from the yahoo API is not here in time for the page to load its content.
Some of the things I have used to try and slow the ajax call down:
setTimeout
wrapping the entire function that $.ajax(success: ) calls into another function, wrapping it in setTimeout
taking the callback function out of $.ajax(success: ), and putting into the $.ajax(complete: ) param
taking the data object that $.ajax(success: ) passes in, and copying that to another var, then going outside of ajax call and putting the function that handles the data inside of $.ajaxComplete(), passing new object var
There are more ways that I have tried to go about this, but I have been at it for 3 days and cannot find a solution. Can someone please help me here
Here is a link to the project
My Weather App On codeine.io
function RunCALL(url)
{
var comeBack = $.ajax({
url: url,
async: false,
dataType:"jsonp",
crossDomain: true,
method: 'POST',
statusCode: {
404: function() {console.log("-4-4-4-4 WE GOT 404!");},
200: function() {console.log("-2-2-2-2 WE GOT 200!");}},
success: function(data){
weatherAndFlickrReport(data);},
error: function(e) {console.log(e);}
});
}
Are you using jQuery? If so, you have to chain your callbacks. Which, at a high level, would looks something like:
//You might want to use .get or .getJSON, it's up to what response you're expecting...
$.getJSON('https://example.com/api/flickr', function(response) {
//This your callback. The URL would end up being https://example.com/api/yahoo/?criteria=lalalalala
$.getJSON('https://example.com/api/yahoo/', { criteria: response.propertyYouWant}, function(yahooResponse) {
//Do something with your response here.
});
});
Edit: I have updated your snippet with a working solution (based on the above AJAX requests) which now shows both your JSON objects ready for consuming. Looky here.
I'm not sure if this will actually be possible, since load() is an asynchronous method, but I need some way to basically Load several little bits of pages, one at a time, get some data included in them via JavaScript, and then send that over via Ajax so I can put it on a database I made.
Basically I get this from my page, where all the links I'll be having to iterate through are located:
var digiList = $('.2u');
var link;
for(var i=0;i<digiList.length;i++){
link = "http://www.digimon-heroes.com" + $(digiList).eq(i).find('map').children().attr('href');
So far so good.
Now, I'm going to have to load each link (only a specific div of the full page, not the whole thing) into a div I have somewhere around my page, so that I can get some data via JQuery:
var contentURI= link + ' div.row:nth-child(2)';
$('#single').load('grabber.php?url='+ contentURI,function(){
///////////// And I do a bunch of JQuery stuff here, and save stuff into an object
///////////// Aaaand then I call up an ajax request.
$.ajax({
url: 'insertDigi.php',
type: 'POST',
data: {digimon: JSON.stringify(digimon)},
dataType: 'json',
success: function(msg){
console.log(msg);
}
////////This calls up a script that handles everything and makes an insert into my database.
}); //END ajax
}); //END load callback Function
} //END 'for' Statement.
alert('Inserted!');
Naturally, as would be expected, the loading takes too long, and the rest of the for statement just keeps going through, not really caring about letting the load finish up it's business, since the load is asynchronous. The alert('Inserted!'); is called before I even get the chance to load the very first page. This, in turn, means that I only get to load the stuff into my div before I can even treat it's information and send it over to my script.
So my question is: Is there some creative way to do this in such a manner that I could iterate through multiple links, load them, do my business with them, and be done with it? And if not, is there a synchronous alternative to load, that could produce roughly the same effect? I know that it would probably block up my page completely, but I'd be fine with it, since the page does not require any input from me.
Hopefully I explained everything with the necessary detail, and hopefully you guys can help me out with this. Thanks!
You probably want a recursive function, that waits for one iteration, before going to the next iteration etc.
(function recursive(i) {
var digiList = $('.2u');
var link = digiList.eq(i).find('map').children().attr('href') + ' div.row:nth-child(2)';
$.ajax({
url: 'grabber.php',
data: {
url: link
}
}).done(function(data) {
// do stuff with "data"
$.ajax({
url: 'insertDigi.php',
type: 'POST',
data: {
digimon: digimon
},
dataType: 'json'
}).done(function(msg) {
console.log(msg);
if (i < digiList.length) {
recursive(++i); // do the next one ... when this is one is done
}
});
});
})(0);
Just in case you want them to run together you can use closure to preserve each number in the loop
for (var i = 0; i < digiList.length; i++) {
(function(num) { < // num here as the argument is actually i
var link = "http://www.digimon-heroes.com" + $(digiList).eq(num).find('map').children().attr('href');
var contentURI= link + ' div.row:nth-child(2)';
$('#single').load('grabber.php?url=' + contentURI, function() {
///////////// And I do a bunch of JQuery stuff here, and save stuff into an object
///////////// Aaaand then I call up an ajax request.
$.ajax({
url: 'insertDigi.php',
type: 'POST',
data: {
digimon: JSON.stringify(digimon)
},
dataType: 'json',
success: function(msg) {
console.log(msg);
}
////////This calls up a script that handles everything and makes an insert into my database.
}); //END ajax
}); //END load callback Function
})(i);// <-- pass in the number from the loop
}
You can always use synchronous ajax, but there's no good reason for it.
If you know the number of documents you need to download (you can count them or just hardcode if it's constant), you could run some callback function on success and if everything is done, then proceed with logic that need all documents.
To make it even better you could just trigger an event (on document or any other object) when everything is downloaded (e.x. "downloads_done") and listen on this even to make what you need to make.
But all above is for case you need to do something when all is done. However I'm not sure if I understood your question correctly (just read this again).
If you want to download something -> do something with data -> download another thing -> do something again...
Then you can also use javascript waterfall (library or build your own) to make it simple and easy to use. On waterfall you define what should happen when async function is done, one by one.
I get a list of users with an AJAX call, but within the AJAX I call another AJAX to get some information that I could not get with the first AJAX call.
This is basically the structure I'm using, I've removed some unneccesary code that would just clutter, it is possible that there is some syntax errors here and there.
But the code basically works but there are some issues.
function doAJAX(){
$(".loading").show();
$("#table").hide();
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "#Url.Action("Action", "Controller")",
data: { variable: varVariable},
dataType: "json",
success: function (data) {
$.each(data, function (index, value) {
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "#Url.Action("Action", "Controller")",
data: { variable: value.id},
success: function (data2) {
$.each(data2, function (index2, value2) {
$("#tableBody").append("<tr><td>" + value.test +"</td><td>" + value2.test +"</td></tr>");
});
}
});
});
}
});
}
I hide my table at the start, when the AJAX is complete I want to show it again. Where exactly should I place it? Even if I place it at the end of the first AJAX success function it does not work because it gets executed while the other AJAX is still running.
For some reason my list ends up in an odd order everytime the AJAX runs, my list is sorted by alphabetical order yet with this AJAX it ends up random everytime, sometimes the user Adam is at the start, sometimes in the middle and so on. The list itself is fine and in correct order
I do a lot of mathematics that is probably slowing down the second AJAX call which is probably why it ends up in a weird order
Both of these issues are happening because the two AJAXs aren't running "together" but individually, is there a way to make them sync with each other and is there a good way to be sure that the AJAX is completed and now I can show my table?
Sending ajax request inside a loop doesn't seem like a good idea. Why won't you send one ajax request with array of id's as a data, inside your serverside script just get "WHERE id IN (id_list)" array of user records and return them as json-encoded object, and then output it inside a double loop, first for <tr>, second for a list of fields.
I'm sorry i can't provide code, as i don't know what is being returned from your requests to server.
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I want to load new content from the server to the DIV without refreshing the whole page.
I tried the following
$.ajax({
type: "GET",
url: "http://127.0.0.1:8000/result/?age="+ ageData +"&occasion="+
occasionData +"&relationship="+ forData +"#",
success: function (response) {
$("#testDIV").html(response);
}
});
But the problem is the whole page is loading in <DIV id="testDIV">. I want to replace the old DIV with New DIV content returned from the server not with the whole page.
You can keep your same process sense you are interested in using AJAX directly and want to manage your done function (instead of success because .done() will replace it). Here is how...
.done(function(data) {
...
}
Inside of that done function, you can filter the page content to what you want. Simply request what you want to filter with jquery like this...
var $response = $(data);
var response_title = $response.filter(".title").html(); //I'm assuming you are trying to pull just the title (perhaps an < h1 > tag, in this little example, from the entire external page!
THEN!...
$("#testDIV").html(response_title);
With the done function, based on jQuery's API, you can use this format...
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "some.php",
data: { name: "John", location: "Boston" }
}).done(function( msg ) {
alert( "Data Saved: " + msg );
});
So your final code may look something like this...
$.ajax({
type: "GET",
url: "ht.tp://127.0.0.1:8000/result/?age="+ ageData +"&occasion="+ occasionData +"&relationship="+ forData +"#"})
.done(function(response) {
var $response = $(response);
var response_title = $response.filter(".title").html();
$("#testDIV").html(response_title);
});
I like the answer by blackhawk. It uses the existing code with slight modification.
I would just condense it to a one line change like this:
$.ajax({
type: "GET",
url: "http://127.0.0.1:8000/result/?age="+ ageData +"&occasion="+
occasionData+"&relationship="+ forData +"#",
success: function (response) {
$("testDIV").html($(data).filter(".title").html());
}
});
The code you are displaying is actually correct.
The problem comes from what your server is providing.
What you are doing here is GETing a whole page via an AJAX call, and replacing the content of One div with that whole page.
Your server should not render the whole page for that call, but only the content of the div you wish to replace. If you are using framework like rails or symfony, they often provide an easy way to detect if the query is a normal GET request, or an AJAX call.
Basically you have 4 strategies at your disposal :
Make the requests to a specific endpoint that is used only for the ajax call and that returns the content of the div you wish to replace. And not the whole page.
Make the request to the same page, and detect if the request is a normal HTTP request or an AJAX call. Based on that, return the whole page or just the content of the div. You'll probably have to look for the helpers in your framework / toolbox documentation.
Make the AJAX request but ask for a JSON object. Transform your JSON in HTML on the client side to replace the content of the div. This is the "my app is just an API" approach. This is my personal favorite as this JSON endpoint can be used for other purposes (eg: a mobile app) since it carries only content, and not presentation. This also tends to be the fastest way in terms of performance since a significant part of the computation is done on the client side. On the con side, this requires you to write more JS.
Always render the whole page, and filter only what you need on the client side. This is balchawk approach. Benefit is that you don't have to modify your server, but you will waste processing time and bandwidth by returning a whole page, when only a subset is necessary.
$(function(){
$('.classloader.').on('click', function(e){
$.ajax({
type: "GET",
url: "http://127.0.0.1:8000/result/?age="+ ageData +"&occasion="+
occasionData +"&relationship="+ forData +"#",
beforeSend: function() {
$("#testDIV").hide();
$('div#loading').show();
},
success: function(html){
$("#testDIV").html($(html).filter("#mainContent").html()).show();
$('div#loading').hide();
}
});
return false;
});
})
I want to use John Resig's pretty date for replacing my ugly time stamps with some nice-to-read time specification.
So I thought about using the following unobtrusive html markup:
<span data-type="prettyDate">25.04.2012 10:16:37</span>
Acording to that I use following Javascript/jQuery to prettify the date:
$(function() {
$('[data-type="prettyDate"]').prettyDate();
}
My problem is that I don't know how to deal with markup that is loaded using ajax because that would not be caught since it does not yet exist when the DOM ready event fires. Reacting to events on "ajaxed" elements is pretty easy using the on handler. But this is not an event.
You have to call .prettyDate() after each Ajax response is added to the DOM. A simple way to do that is to set a global complete handler with ajaxComplete.
You can use jQuery to target dynamic content before it's actually been inserted into the document, something like:
success: function(html) {
var $html = $(html);
$html.find('[data-type="prettyDate"]').prettyDate();
$(somewhere in document).append($html);
}
What you want to do to get the best performance out of this is have a function which get called on the data as it gets returned from the ajax callback. That way you can prettify your date before adding them to the DOM.
You don't want to call pretty date on element in the DOM every time as you will process date already done too.
So, something like this.
$.ajax({
url:'someurl',
success: function(data) {
var $content = $(data).find('[data-type="prettyDate"]').prettyDate();
$('#mycontainer').append($content);
}
});
or have an helper function which you call
function prettify(data) {
return $(data).find('[data-type="prettyDate"]').prettyDate();
}
or even better hook into the ajax call so that it is done for all html content
There have been a number of cases where I needed certain code to execute after every AJAX call. I'm not sure if it's considered the "correct" solution but I simply decided to create my own wrapper method and use that whenever I needed to make an AJAX request. It typically looks something like this:
AJAXLoadData: function (url, data, successCallBack) {
$.ajax({
type: "GET",
data: data,
url: url,
contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
dataType: "json",
success: function (msg) {
// Code I want to execute with every AJAX call
// goes here.
// Then trigger the callback function.
if (successCallBack) successCallBack(msg);
},
error: function (msg) {
alert("Server error.");
}
});
}
In my case this made it particularly convenient to create a javascript caching system for static HTML files.
You could incorporate this code into your ajax success callback function. When the ajax is done and you update your page, also run the code to prettify the dates.
This is one of the things .on() is for. (In the olden days, .live() would have been used.)