how to stop ajax request?

Question

I have multiple ajax requests and when one of them can't get data I want , I re-send it until it can get data . the problem that I can't stop it after it gets data . Is there's a break or something equivalent to it in ajax ? I tried clearinterval but it didn't work here's my functions :

  function ajaxGetServerDatabase(Div,val,interval){
       console.log(val);
       dbs[val]=new Array();
        $('#bck_action').val('get_DB');
        $('#server_ip').val(val);
        post_data = $('#'+Div+' *').serialize();
        $.ajax({
            type: "POST",
            url: document.URL,
            data: post_data,

            dataType: "text",
            success: function(response) {

                if (response!='no_connection'){
                    dbs[val]=JSON.parse(response)
                    clearInterval(this.interval);  // ???? 
                }

            }
        });
        return false;
    }

  function ajaxGetDatabase(Div,ips,interval){
    $.each(ips,function(i,val){
       dbs[val]=new Array();
        $('#bck_action').val('get_DB');
        $('#server_ip').val(val);
        post_data = $('#'+Div+' *').serialize();
        //    console.log(post_data);
        $.ajax({
            type: "POST",
            url: document.URL,
            data: post_data,

            dataType: "text",
            success: function(response) {

                if (response!='no_connection'){
                    dbs[val]=JSON.parse(response)
                }
                else
               {
                   setInterval("ajaxGetServerDatabase('"+Div+"','"+val+"','"+interval+"')", interval);
               }
            }
        });
    });

    return false;
}

I call it :

  ajaxGetDatabase('tab_backup',ips,3000);

Answer 1

here's the answer : in ajaxGetDatabase :

 success: function(response) {

                if (response!='no_connection'){
                    dbs[val]=JSON.parse(response)

                }
                else
                {
                 id=setInterval("ajaxGetServerDatabase('"+Div+"','"+val+"')", interval);
            }

in ajaxGetServerDatabase :

    success: function(response) {
            if (response!='no_connection'){
                dbs[val]=JSON.parse(response)
                clearInterval(id);
            }

        }

with out scope parameter

 var id;

to make it general and work for more than one server had stopped (more than one ajax request is failed) I used an array to save ids like this :

   var ids=new Array();

   ids[val]=setInterval("ajaxGetServerDatabase('"+Div+"','"+val+"')", interval);

   clearInterval(ids[val]);    

Answer 2

var timer = null;
function ajaxGetServerDatabase(Div,val,interval){
   //...
   if (response!='no_connection'){
                dbs[val]=JSON.parse(response)
                clearInterval(timer);  // ???? 
            }
   //....
   else
           {
               timer = setInterval("ajaxGetServerDatabase('"+Div+"','"+val+"','"+interval+"')", interval);
           }

Answer 3

clearInterval has nothing to do with ajax. It's only a timer function which scope is to clear the timer set earlier with setInterval. If you really want to use a timer function you need either to attach a variable to the setInterval function, which you can clear with clearInterval setting as a parameter the id defined earlier in the setInterval.

var id = " ";
success: function(response) {

   if (response!='no_connection'){
       dbs[val]=JSON.parse(response)
       clearInterval(id);
   }
   else                   
       id= setInterval("ajaxGetServerDatabase('"+Div+"','"+val+"','"+interval+"')", interval);
}

Or you can abort the code with ajax abort.

Answer 4

Maybe something close to this?

...
var stopAjax = 0;  //switch is on
if(stopAjax == 0){

  $.ajax({
    ...
    success: function(response) {
    if (response!='no_connection'){
       dbs[val]=JSON.parse(response);
       stopAjax = 1; //switch is off
    }
    else{
        setInterval("ajaxGetServerDatabase('"+Div+"','"+val+"','"+interval+"')", interval);
      }
    }
  });
}

Answer 5

Are you looking for the timeout setting perhaps? eg

$.ajax({
    timeout: 10000,
    ...
});

http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/