What should be the correct response from web service to display the Jquery token input results?

Question

I am using a Jquery Token Input plugin. I have tried to fetch the data from the database instead of local data. My web service returns the json result is wrapped in xml:

Answer 1

I would assume that the code for the plugin isn't setting the content-type for ajax requests to JSON, so you could do it yourself before the service call with $.ajaxSetup ie:

$.ajaxSetup({
  contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8"
});

UPDATE: Apparently asmx services sometimes have issues with the 'charset=utf-8' portion, so if that doesn't work you could try just 'application/json'

UPDATE 2:

I don't think it's the contentType causing the issue, use the following to force a POST for ajax requests and see if this fixes it:

$.ajaxSetup({
  type: "POST", contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8"
});

UPDATE 3:

There is a default setting inside the plugin you're using that can change the requests from GET to POST. See here on it's GitHub repo: jquery.tokeninput.js

and in your copy of the js file in the project, change the line:

var DEFAULT_SETTINGS = {
    // Search settings
    method: "GET",

to

var DEFAULT_SETTINGS = {
    // Search settings
    method: "POST",

I also assume that the plugin constructs the query in a way that ignores the global jquery ajax settings anyway, so you shouldn't need to include my earlier snippets anymore.