Question

Experts,

The following function are successfully send data to the Controller.cs (server)

 var ajaxResponse = $.ajax({
                        type: "post",
                        url: href,
                        dataType: 'json',
                        contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
                        data: JSON.stringify(postData),
                        success: function (msg) {
                           alert("Success");
                        }
                    })

but i am not able to get updated status from the following method

[AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)]
        public ActionResult SaveData(TabMasterViewModel postData)
        {
            string message = "";
            try
            {
                TabMasterViewModel update = new TabMasterViewModel();
                update = _tabmasterService.GetSingle(r => r.colID == postData.colID);
                UpdateModel(update);
                _tabmasterService.Update(update);
                message = "Success";
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                message = e.Message;
            }
            return Content(message);
        }

I would like to display message when failed or success. this following line never execute

success: function (msg) {
                           alert("Success");
                        }

but my server side code is executed without any error.

Please provide your valuable suggestions,

Thanks,
Imdadhusen

Answer 1

Instead of returning ActionResult you should be returning JsonResult

For example

public JsonResult SaveData() {
  return Json(new {success=true, msg="Saved ok"});
}

then your JS

success: function (msg) {
                            if(msg.success)
                               alert("Success");
                        }