jQuery AJAX polling for JSON response, handling based on AJAX result or JSON content

Question

I\'m a novice-to-intermediate JavaScript/jQuery programmer, so concrete/executable examples would be very much appreciated.

My project requires using AJAX to poll a

Answer 1

Off the top of my head:

$(function ()
{
    // reference cache to speed up the process of querying for the status element
    var statusElement = $("#status");

    // this function will run each 1000 ms until stopped with clearInterval()
    var i = setInterval(function ()
    {
        $.ajax(
        {
            success: function (json)
            {
                // progress from 1-100
                statusElement.text(json.progress + "%");

                // when the worker process is done (reached 100%), stop execution
                if (json.progress == 100) i.clearInterval();
            },

            error: function ()
            {
                // on error, stop execution
                i.clearInterval();
            }
        });
    }, 1000);
});