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hi,
i understand that the xmlHttp.responseText; attribute would return the server's message, but is there any way to get only ajax object's error messages?
see, i have a case.
lets say i have two different span on my page.
<span id="system"/>
<span id="display"/>
if ajax's object is throwing an error, i want it displayed on 'system' span. Otherwise if everything's normal, a tabled result will show in 'display' span. Is this possible?
i understand that the xmlHttp.responseText; attribute would return the server's message, but is there any way to get only ajax object's error messages?
see, i have a case.
lets say i have two different span on my page.
<span id="system"/>
<span id="display"/>
if ajax's object is throwing an error, i want it displayed on 'system' span. Otherwise if everything's normal, a tabled result will show in 'display' span. Is this possible?
If by 'error message' you mean an error in the server side code; the error message is returned in the response text. If the error message is generated by conventional means; the xmlhttp object's 'status' property will be anything but 200, where 'anything but' is one of the standard HTTP status codes: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html The 400+ range off codes are usually errors.
If you mean an error in the client-side code; use some try/catch blocks or pre-checks to find the error and output the message.
If you mean an error in the client-side code; use some try/catch blocks or pre-checks to find the error and output the message.
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hmm, what i meant were the exception errors thrown from server side (in my case, php).
let's say after i do an insert, an exception was thrown from the server, i need to be able to identify whether an exception was thrown on the client side's ajax response.
i'm thinking of sending a true boolean on each successful transaction if ajax's object can't automatically group exceptions on a...say, responseError instead of mixing errors and non-errors.
let's say after i do an insert, an exception was thrown from the server, i need to be able to identify whether an exception was thrown on the client side's ajax response.
i'm thinking of sending a true boolean on each successful transaction if ajax's object can't automatically group exceptions on a...say, responseError instead of mixing errors and non-errors.
An uncaught exception server side should cause the response to be an 'error 500 internal server error'. I think PHP generates its own descriptive error pages; but it still may respond with a status other than 200.. If you didn't know; every response from a server starts with a 'header' which has important information; a status code, the page's content-type, user-provided data, and a few other things. We don't see that in view-source, and PHP doesn't force you to consider it, but it's there. Use this http://web-sniffer.net/ to view the header of a page that raises an error. See if the HTTP status code is something other than "HTTP/1.1 200 OK". The property ajaxobject.status returns the number of the status code: in this case 200. You can't split up the response from a server into 'errors' or 'non-errors' unless you define how to split it up. There is no such thing as an 'error' in a valid response : it is all basically plain text. The header tells you what the response should be treated as. [ and you can, via PHP, set the response to have any header/status you desire ]
Last edited by MattEvans; Nov 27th, 2007 at 5:34 am.
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hi, im not entirely fluent in the http headers, but i just did a test,
with an ajax page that calls php to save something. I then tried throwing an exception from php, but ajax's status is still 200.
So does this mean i have to return other http status code manually incase i catch an exception?
XHR object reflects the HTTP Request and Response in the HTTP protocol. Since PHP5 exceptions are only on the PHP code level, they are not seen as an exception by XHR.
Only HTTP Response Codes are reflected in the XHR object.
What you can do is depending on the format of your HTTP Response, let the client know that an exception was encountered.
For this you need a more structured format than just plain text, maybe JSON or XML. XHR understands XML natively and thus will parse it out into a DOM Object that you can work with. JavaScript can parse JSON with a simple eval().
For example w/ XML:
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<?php // example exception handling for XHR in XML // set content-type as xml header('Content-Type: text/xml'); // PHP 5 try { doSomething(); } catch (Exception $e) { // handle either error here echo '<reponse>'; echo '<exception msg="'.$e->getMessage().'" />'; echo '</response>'; exit(); } ?>
For example w/ JSON:
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<?php // example exception handling for XHR in JSON format // set content-type as javascript header('Content-Type: text/javascript'); // PHP 5 try { doSomething(); } catch (Exception $e) { // handle either error here echo '{exception: {msg:\''.$e->getMessage().'\'}}'; exit(); } ?>
Then on your client side:
If you use XML, get the XHR.responseXML DOM object after the XHR response is received. Traverse the DOM tree for the exception node and get its message attribute value.
If you use JSON for example, just eval("(".XHR.responsetext.")"); saving it to a variable and get the exception property.
You could also have PHP modify the HTTP Response to reflect an exception occurring in the PHP code. Then you can test for exceptions in the XHR Object directly.
Note: The HTTP Response is just plain text. XHR will only parse out the HTTP headers and body into the XHR properties. It cannot understand an exception in any server side language. You have to code this into your Client.
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So does this mean i have to return other http status code manually incase i catch an exception?
I forgot to mention, if using headers manually; you must set the status and header before responding any other content - this might mean you have to buffer output until you're sure that the response is error free, or decide very quickly whether the response is an error or not. Also, you'd have to mark en entire response as either an error or a success, so, you wouldn't be able to mix error messages with success messages.
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