AJAX - The Complete Reference

PART II

Chapter 5: Developing an Ajax Library 197

Methods Description Example

AjaxTCR.comm

.abortRequest(requestObj)

Aborts the

XHR request

of the given

request object.

AjaxTCR.comm.abortRequest(request)

AjaxTCR.comm.sendRequest(url,

options)

Primar y

method that

is called to

send the

request.

Requires

a string

for a URL

parameter

and an object

of options as

specified in

Table 5-3.

var 1 = AjaxTCR.comm.sendRequest

("http://ajaxref.com/ch3/setrating.php",

{ method: "GET",

serializeForm : "ratingForm",

outputTarget : "responseOutput"

});

var r2 = AjaxTCR.comm.sendRequest

("http://ajaxref.com/ch3/setrating.php",

{ method: "POST",

async : false,

payload : "rating=5&comment=Love+it",

outputTarget : "responseOutput"

});

TABLE 5-2 AjaxTCR.comm Methods

TABLE 5-3 Options for sendRequest()

Option Description Example(s)

async: Boolean Defines if the request should be

asynchronous or not. The default is

true.

async: false

insertionType:

"insertBefore" |

"insertAfter" |

"firstChild" |

"lastChild" |

"replace"

Used in conjunction with

outputTarget to define how

content returned should be handled

relative to the element specified

by the outputTarget value.

By default the returned content

will replace the outputTarget

element content. Other values

include:

• insertBefore put as element
  just before the specified element


• insertAfter put as an
  element just after the specified
  element


• firstChild put as the first
  child within the specified element


• lastChild put as the last child
  within the specified element

outputTarget : "responseDiv",

insertionType: "firstChild"