Question

I am having recursive function. it make calls every second. I want to kill that function in certain state.

function foo(){
      // ajax call
      //in ajax success
  success: function(response){
  setTimeout(function(){    
      foo();
   },1000);

   }  
} 

This code makes recursive call

if(user == "idile"){
//here i want to kill that foo() function
}

how can i do this ?
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Assign the timeout to a variable like this:

var timer;
    function foo(){
          // ajax call
          //in ajax success
      success: function(response){
      timer = setTimeout(function(){    
          foo();
       },1000);

       }  
    } 

and then to kill the timer:

if(user == "idile"){
clearTimeout(timer);
}