AJAX JQuery Deferred callbacks only get called once

Question

I am registering callbacks on a few jquery ajax objects.

So I have:

function main_getLogin( options ){
    g_userXHR = $.ajax({
        url:'ajx/_account.aspx',  
        type:'POST' ,cache:false, dataType:'json'
        })
        .success( function(data){
            //var loginData = data.ACCOUNT_INFO;
            //dlog(data);
    });

}

And a call back later - elsewhere

g_userXHR.success(function(d,status){
d = d.ACCOUNT_INFO;
if(d.NAME != "" && d.ERRORS.length == 0){//logged in

    $('#myRHpage .registeredUser').show();
    $('#myRHpage .unregisteredUser').hide();
    setupTabs();
}
else{//user is not logged in 

    $('#myRHpage .unregisteredUser').show();
    $('#myRHpage .registeredUser').hide();
}

});

This callback and all the others work perfectly the first time I am kicking off

main_getLogin();

the .success connected directly to g_userXHR gets called every-time, however the other callbacks attached outside of the function only gets fired the first time I call main_getLogin();

In addition, is there any way to declare a ajax object and send it later. like g_userXHR.send();

Thank you

Answer 1

If that code that's "elsewhere" does not re-add those "success" callbacks every time "main_getLogin()" is called, then they won't be run. Each call to "$.ajax" constructs a brand new "Deferred" object, so what you did to the first one won't affect the next such object jQuery builds for you.

If you want to always do certain things upon success, you can use "$.ajaxSuccess()":

$.ajaxSuccess(function() { ... });