Catch statement does not catch thrown error

Question

For some reason this code gives me an uncaught exception error. It seems the catch block is not catching the error. Are try catch blocks scoped in such a way that I cannot t

Answer 1

The problem is that ajax is asynchronous by definition. Your exception does not get thrown from within the $.ajax function, but from the callback function on success (which is triggered at a later time).

You should give an error: function(data) {} parameter to it as well, to handle server response errors, and furthermore you should place the try/catch block inside the callback function.

If you really want to catch it outside the callback, then you should consider calling a function rather than throwing an exception, because I don't see how it can be done.