jQuery Ajax error handling, show custom exception messages

Question

Is there some way I can show custom exception messages as an alert in my jQuery AJAX error message?

For example, if I want to throw an exception on the server side v

Answer 1

Although it has been many years since this question is asked, I still don't find xhr.responseText as the answer I was looking for. It returned me string in the following format:

"{"error":true,"message":"The user name or password is incorrect"}"

which I definitely don't want to show to the users. What I was looking for is something like below:

alert(xhr.responseJSON.message);

xhr.responseJSON.message gives me the exact message from the Json Object which can be shown to the users.