Shawn
Look at this: http://plugins.jquery.com/project/ajaxqueue
Maybe will solve the problem or use ajax with option async = false
Regards
Tony
On Mar 7, 12:16 pm, Shawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Here's the scenario. I'm writing a routine that will take in a list of
> "items". Each item will fire an Ajax request and the resulting data is
> placed into a variable identified in the "items" properties.
>
> Looping over the items to do the Ajax call results in the LAST item's
> variable being updated. This makes sense in that the callback happens
> after the loop has completed.
>
> So the question is how do I have the callback set the correct variable?
>
> Here's some sample code if it helps:
>
> //loop over each item and set the data as needed.
> for (var x = 0; x < options.items.length; x++ ) {
> var i = options.items[x];
> if (!i.ajaxparams) { return; };
> var macb = function (data) { queueData[i.dataname] = data;
> checkComplete(); }
> i.ajaxparams.success = macb;
> $.ajax(i.ajaxparams);
> }
>
> }
>
> The problem is the "macb" function - specifically the use of the
> i.dataname. This works great if I have ONE ajax item. But adding two
> (say for "names" and "scores") only sets the last dataname seen in the loop.
>
> doing the "var i = " *should* have prevented this, but isn't. (and my
> brain is mush right now). So the next option is to pass in the dataname
> value to the callback function. Except I don't see any possible way to
> pass extra data to the callback.
>
> Is there a better way to handle this? I'm afraid the "obvious" answers
> probably aren't suitable in this case. Unless my brain is worse off
> than I thought right now.
>
> Thanks for any tips.
>
> Shawn
>
> ps. I snipped a little bit from the above code. There's logic to check
> if a "success" function is specified in the ajaxparams and if so use
> it's return value to set the queueData property.
