Writing a custom remote method requires much more then that. Please
take a look at the source of the default remote - either try to
replicate that, or better yet, try to use it as is. It passes through
any parameters to $.ajax:
remote: {
url: "...",
typo: "post",
// other $.ajax options
}
Jörn
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Trevor Rosen <trevor.ro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I need to do validation on an email address via AJAX, and it has to
> happen cross-domain. I can get this to work fine using just jQuery's
> $.ajax method, but not when I try to turn it into a validator plugin
> method. As a validator method, it does the XHR call fine, and I see
> the results I expect in the console, but it seems to flag everything
> as invalid.
>
> The method is here: http://pastie.org/447779
>
> I think I'm just bad at writing custom validation methods, b/c as I
> said up top this works fine as a regular jQuery function.
>
> Notice that I'm using the success callback to cheat a little -- my
> server-side code throws back a status code of 200 and a piece of JSON
> containing a string of either "success" or "failure", and then the
> valid/invalid logic is in the success callback. I had to do this b/c
> the success callback is apparently the only one you get when doing a
> JSONP dataType.
>
> I'd love to use the great features inherent in the validator plugin
> for this if I could. Does anyone know how this can be done?
>
> many thanks!
>
> -TR
>
