jQuery AJAX Responses in ASP.NET MVC

Question

Not even sure if this is the right way to title the question. I know I\'m making my AJAX calls all wrong... here\'s what I\'m doing right now (I\'m using ASP.NET MVC backend

Answer 1

First of all if you want AJAX call to return the data you are planning to use in your scripts (and by use I mean something more complicated then displaying that data in a div), you should probably return JSON data instead of HTML from your server. JSON is actually a JS object so it can be used in JS the moment it is received.

So if you return the data i.e.

{id: 1, status: 'ok'}

You can use something like this to use that data.

$.ajax({
    url: "your/script/url",
    type: "POST",
    data: {login : 'foo', pass: 'bar'}, // whatever the data is
    dataType: "json",
    success: function(data){
        if (data.status === 'ok') {
            console.log('success');
        } else {
            console.log('error');
        }
    }

});