Question

Altering a JSON variable is failing for following snippet:

var data = {status: ''};

rosconnection.setOnOpen(function (e) {
        data.status = 'Succeeded';
        alert('success');
});

rosconnection.setOnError(function (e) {
        data.status = 'Failed';
        alert('fail');
});

data stays empty, but the alert gets called within rosconnection.setOnOpen. The error is hard to replicate hence its used on a ros connection, but i am 100% certain that it enters atleast one of the functions with success.

Answer 1

You didn’t show us how you know the status didn’t change so…

My bet is: there is no way you saw the alert without the data being changed so your code probably looks something like this:

var data = {status: ''};

rosconnection.setOnOpen(function (e) {
        data.status = 'Succeeded';
        alert('success');
});

rosconnection.setOnError(function (e) {
        data.status = 'Failed';
        alert('fail');
});

alert(data.status);

So the status was not set yet. Check it inside the callback. AJAX…
What does AJAX means? A is for async, which means it will fire sometime in the future(near or far), you can’t know when and sometimes don’t even if it will ever be called.

Updated version:

var data = {status: ''};

rosconnection.setOnOpen(function (e) {
        data.status = 'Succeeded';
        alert(data.status);
});

rosconnection.setOnError(function (e) {
        data.status = 'Failed';
        alert(data.status);
});