Retry a jquery ajax request which has callbacks attached to its deferred

Question

I\'m trying to implement a system of retrying ajax requests that fail for a temporary reason. In my case, it is about retrying requests that failed with a 401 status code be

Answer 1

This is a great question that I just faced too.

I was daunted by the accepted answer (from @gnarf), so I figured out a way that I understood easier:

        var retryLimit = 3;
        var tryCount = 0;
        callAjax(payload);
        function callAjax(payload) {
            tryCount++;
            var newSaveRequest = $.ajax({
                url: '/survey/save',
                type: 'POST',
                data: payload,
                headers: {
                    'X-CSRF-TOKEN': $('meta[name="csrf-token"]').attr('content')
                },
                error: function (xhr, textStatus, errorThrown) {
                    if (textStatus !== 'abort') {
                        console.log('Error on ' + thisAnswerRequestNum, xhr, textStatus, errorThrown);
                        if (tryCount <= retryLimit) {
                            sleep(2000).then(function () {
                                if ($.inArray(thisAnswerRequestNum, abortedRequestIds) === -1) {
                                    console.log('Trying again ' + thisAnswerRequestNum);
                                    callAjax(payload);//try again
                                }
                            });
                            return;
                        }
                        return;
                    }
                }
            });
            newSaveRequest.then(function (data) {
                var newData = self.getDiffFromObjects(recentSurveyData, data);
                console.log("Answer was recorded " + thisAnswerRequestNum, newData);//, data, JSON.stringify(data)
                recentSurveyData = data;
            });
            self.previousQuizAnswerAjax = newSaveRequest;
            self.previousQuizAnswerIter = thisAnswerRequestNum;
        }


function sleep(milliseconds) {
    return new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, milliseconds));
}

Basically, I just wrapped the entire Ajax call and its callbacks into one function which can get called recursively.