Question

Here is my $.ajax() code, but I can’t make it work.

After I change the form from contentType: "text/xml ; ",**
to contentType: "text/xml ; charset=UTF-8",

The request is broken. However, according to the official document: api/$.ajax, I have to do so,or the charset will be same with the server.

var soapRequest_add_a_new_story_to_db=
'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>'+
  '<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" '+
'xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" '+
     'xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">'+
  '<soap:Body> '+
    '<AddNewStory xmlns="http://x.x.x.x/StoryForMac/">'+
  '<StoryID>'+story_id+'</StoryID>'+
  '<UserName>' +User_Name+ '</UserName>'+
  '<Story_CreateTime>'+Edit_Time+'</Story_CreateTime>'+
  '<StoryName>'+Story_Name+'</StoryName>'+
'</AddNewStory>'+
'</soap:Body>'+
'</soap:Envelope>'; 



        $.ajax({
            type: "POST",
            url: webServiceAddNewStoryToDbUrl,
            contentType: "text/xml ; charset=UTF-8",
            dataType: "xml",    
            data: soapRequest_add_a_new_story_to_db,        
            success: processSuccess,        //If the SOAP connection sucessess, the function: processSuccess() will be called.  
            error: processError     
        }); 

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UPDATE:

Please read this part of the doc,(ctr+f, jump to “processData”).

I think my data is already a query string so that I ignore the option:processData. The doc says: “If you want to send a DOMDocument, or other non-processed data, set this option to false.” But my soapRequest_add_a_new_story_to_db is not a DOMDocument. And what’s the definition of “non-processed” data? Please give explain and relative reference document.

Answer 1

In your ajax call you have to prevent the processing of your data. You basically tell jquery: “don’t touch my request and response data I know what I’m doing.”
The data in your request var is a valid soap message as is, so you want to prevent that jquery tries to convert it (which it will do for json or xml data).

  $.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        url: webServiceAddNewStoryToDbUrl,
        contentType: "text/xml; charset=\"UTF-8\"",
        dataType: "xml",   
        processData: false, 
        data: soapRequest_add_a_new_story_to_db,        
        success: processSuccess, //If the SOAP connection sucessess, the function: processSuccess() will be called.  
        error: processError     
    });