Question

Having a really hard time with this issue, and I know $.when() can be used like so (with multiple AJAX statements) to promise you when they have all finished.

http://jsfiddle.net/M93MQ/

    $.when(
        $.ajax({ url: '/echo/html/', success: function(data) {
            alert('request 1 complete')
          }
        }),

        $.ajax({ url: '/echo/html/', success: function(data) {
            alert('request 2 complete')
          }
        })
    ).then( function () { alert('all complete'); });

But this only works with raw $.ajax(), is there anyway to have this same functionality with function calls, that in turn have the ajax inside them (and other random logic) ?

Pseudo-code idea:

    // The functions having the AJAX inside them of course
    $.when(ajaxFunctionOne, ajaxFunctionTwo).then(function () {
        alert('all complete'); 
    });

Answer 1

Sure, have the function return a promise object.

function ajaxFunctionOne() {
    return $.ajax(...)
}
function ajaxFunctionTwo() {
    var dfd = $.Deferred();
    // on some async condition such as dom ready:
    $(dfd.resolve);
    return dfd.promise();
}

function ajaxFunctionThree() {
    // two ajax, one that depends on another
    return $.ajax(...).then(function(){
        return $.ajax(...);
    });
}   

$.when(ajaxFunctionOne(),ajaxFunctionTwo(),ajaxFunctionThree()).done(function(){
    alert("all complete")
});