Making that change as-is would definitely seem to break code. Really
the get and post methods are meant to be simple cases, everything else
should be tackled with the ajax method.
--John
On Sunday, November 8, 2009, Mr Speaker <mrspea...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The $.post and $.get are really handy, but seem limited in their use
> for serious work because you can't tell if they fail (can you? I mean,
> besides the global error handler?).
>
> I couldn't find any discussion on this, it would be useful if you
> could just call the same callback method for either success or error
> and let the user play with the result:
>
> post: function( url, data, callback, type ) {
> ...
> return jQuery.ajax({
> type: "POST",
> url: url,
> data: data,
> success: callback,
> error: callback, <-- same function
> dataType: type
> });
>
> This would be especially useful for $.post where it's usually pretty
> important that you know that an update has occurred. In the
> documentation the callback code has this comment:
> // NOTE: Apparently, only "success" is returned when you make
> // an Ajax call in this way. Other errors silently fail.
>
> So I guess there is a reason for not doing this... it would break
> existing code for people who just checked for ANY return value, and I
> suppose it complicates the simple $.post function a little - but it
> would give these helper functions more "real world" uses.
>
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