jquery.getJSON() error handling

Question

I am using jquery.getJSON(), but I don't know how to do error handling. And these are some situations that I need to handle.

1) what if the returned data is null?

2) what if the returned data is not json parseable?

3) what if some error message is returned? For example, the server returned HTTP ERROR

Arun P Johny · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-03 16:24:59Z

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Since the $.getJSON() returns a promise object uou can use the .fail() promise callback for case 2 and 3... case 1 needs to be handled in the success callback itself

jQuery.getJSON(...).fail(function(jqXHR, status, error){
    if(status == 'parseerror'){
        //not valid json
    } else {
        //some other error
    }
})

answered Oct 3, 2013 at 16:24

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4 Comments

Cacheing Over a year ago

i don't get status == 'parseerror', if the returned data is not parseable, the status will be parseerror?

Arun P Johny Over a year ago

@Cacheing yes look at the $.ajax() documentation for error callback

Cacheing Over a year ago

thanks, but it should be handled this way even if the server returned some error by setting response.setStatus?

Arun P Johny Over a year ago

@Cacheing yes... then the status will be error and you can use jqXHR.status to get the response status like 400/404/403/500 etc... also you can read the response content using jqXHR.responseText

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