jQuery Ajax error handling, show custom exception messages

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Is there some way I can show custom exception messages as an alert in my jQuery AJAX error message?

For example, if I want to throw an exception on the server side via Struts by throw new ApplicationException("User name already exists");, I want to catch this message ('user name already exists') in the jQuery AJAX error message.

jQuery("#save").click(function () {
  if (jQuery('#form').jVal()) {
    jQuery.ajax({
      type: "POST",
      url: "saveuser.do",
      dataType: "html",
      data: "userId=" + encodeURIComponent(trim(document.forms[0].userId.value)),
      success: function (response) {
        jQuery("#usergrid").trigger("reloadGrid");
        clear();
        alert("Details saved successfully!!!");
      },
      error: function (xhr, ajaxOptions, thrownError) {
        alert(xhr.status);
        alert(thrownError);
      }
    });
  }
});

On the second alert in the error callback, where I alert thrownError, I am getting undefined and the xhr.status code is 500.

I am not sure where I am going wrong. What can I do to fix this problem?

exception jquery ajax
21 Answers

Make sure you're setting Response.StatusCode to something other than 200. Write your exception's message using Response.Write, then use...

xhr.responseText

..in your javascript.

Sprintstar_152330

I believe the Ajax response handler uses the HTTP status code to check if there was an error.

So if you just throw a Java exception on your server side code but then the HTTP response doesn't have a 500 status code jQuery (or in this case probably the XMLHttpRequest object) will just assume that everything was fine.

I'm saying this because I had a similar problem in ASP.NET where I was throwing something like a ArgumentException("Don't know what to do...") but the error handler wasn't firing.

I then set the Response.StatusCode to either 500 or 200 whether I had an error or not.

vitorsilva_18428640

Throw a new exception on server using:

Response.StatusCode = 500

Response.StatusDescription = ex.Message()

I believe that the StatusDescription is returned to the Ajax call...

Example:

        Try

            Dim file As String = Request.QueryString("file")

            If String.IsNullOrEmpty(file) Then Throw New Exception("File does not exist")

            Dim sTmpFolder As String = "Temp\" & Session.SessionID.ToString()

            sTmpFolder = IO.Path.Combine(Request.PhysicalApplicationPath(), sTmpFolder)

            file = IO.Path.Combine(sTmpFolder, file)

            If IO.File.Exists(file) Then

                IO.File.Delete(file)

            End If

        Catch ex As Exception

            Response.StatusCode = 500

            Response.StatusDescription = ex.Message()

        End Try
user_2534160

In my case, I just removed HTTP VERB from controller.

    **//[HttpPost]**   ---- just removed this verb
    public JsonResult CascadeDpGetProduct(long categoryId)
    {
       
        List<ProductModel> list = new List<ProductModel>();
        list = dp.DpProductBasedOnCategoryandQty(categoryId);
        return Json(new SelectList(list, "Value", "Text", JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet));
    }
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