JavaScript function that returns AJAX call data [duplicate]

Answer 1

As of jQuery 1.8, the "success", "error" and "complete" callback are deprecated. Instead you should be using "done", "fail" and "always".

So you could have:

function checkUserIdExists(userid, callback) {
        return $.ajax({
        url: 'theurl',
        type: 'GET',
        cache: false,
        data: {
           userid: userid
        }
    })
    .done(callback)
    .fail(function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {
        // Handle error
    });
}

checkUserIdExists(2, function(data) {
    console.log(data); // Do what you want with the data returned
});