Possible to calculate how much data been loaded with AJAX?

Question

I\'ve been busy with some AJAX code. I want to calculate how much data has been loaded and I want to display it with percents.

All my preloaded info is inside \"feed

Answer 1

It is possible. XHRs have a progress event. The only problem is accessing the XHR object - unfortunately beforeSend only receives the jqXHR object and not the underlying XHR object. It is also not accessible as a property of the wrapper. You can however hook into the creation process of the XHR object by adding the following option to $.ajax():

xhr: function () {
    var xhr = $.ajaxSettings.xhr(); // call the original function
    xhr.addEventListener('progress', function (e) {
        if (e.lengthComputable) {
            var percentComplete = e.loaded / e.total;
            // Do something with download progress
        }
    }, false);
    return xhr;
}

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Here's my initial solution. It is extremely hard to combine with jQuery since you can't easily hook into the onreadystatechange handler and cannot safely replace it after it has been set:

You need to add a custom onreadystatechange handler. When the readyState of the XHR object becomes 2 (*HEADERS_RECEIVED*) you can access the Content-Length header to get the total size and then wait for the event to fire with xhr.readyState == 3 (LOADING).

Then you can calculate the progress by looking at xhr.responseText.length.
However, this will only fire once. So you need to start a timer (using setInterval()) which will check the ready state and response size e.g. every 100 msecs. As soon as the request finishes you stop the interval again using clearInterval().