serialize post datatables form to laravel controller for saving

Question

I have a datatables with some inputs in certain columns that are editable. I want to save the edited values in db.

This is my datatables:

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The serialized datatables from values looks like this (if you print_r($_POST) for debugging):

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javascript - I post the datatables form via ajax request to my laravel api controller method like this:

// Serialize the datatable table into post string
var poDetailUpdates = create_po_details_table.$('input').serialize();

// Call po api to save changes
$.ajax({
    type: "POST",
    data: poDetailUpdates,
    url: '/api/po/update-create-lines/',
    complete: function(response) {
        if (response.status === 200) {
            alert(response.responseText); // success
        } else {
            alert(response.responseText); // error
        }
    }
});

php - this is how I handle my form post in laravel:

public function postUpdateCreateLines() {
    DB::beginTransaction();
    try {
        foreach ($_POST as $column_name => $values) {
            foreach ($values as $line_id => $new_value) {
                DB::table('purchase_order_details')
                    ->where('id', '=', $line_id)
                    ->update(array($column_name => $new_value));
            }
        }
        DB::commit();
        Response::make('Purchase order details updated', 200);
    } catch (Exception $ex) {
        DB::rollback();
        Response::make('Purchase order details not updated - '. $ex->getMessage(), 500);
    }
}

When the code runs, I get an empty alert() in javascript once the ajax request completes.

I thought the issue might be with the DB transaction related code, so I tried commenting out the following:

// DB::beginTransaction();
// DB::commit();
// DB::rollback();

But this also yields the same result (empty alert). Any idea what might be wrong? how to debug this? Something must be going wrong somewhere...

damiani · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-27 22:08:30Z

1

Your postUpdateCreateLines() method is not actually returning anything; you are making a response, but you need to return it:

return Response::make('Purchase order details updated', 200);

However, there are some other improvements you could make. It is best to return a JSON response to your $.ajax call, and then rely on jQuery's ajax .done and .fail handlers to deal with the response appropriately (rather than using complete):

return Response::json(
    ['status' => 'success', 
     'msg'    => 'Purchase order details updated']
     , 200)

...and add the response dataType to your ajax call:

dataType: "json"

answered Oct 27, 2014 at 22:08

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Latheesan Over a year ago

Sorry, I don't know how I missed that. the code was right, I forgot to return the response like you said. Good catch, thanks :)

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