Question

I am working on a Scrabble question and to verify if the words exist in my language I am trying to use the wordreference api: http://www.wordreference.com/docs/api.aspx.

This is what kind of response it returns when accessing a word that doesn’t exist

1.

{
    "Response" : "Redirect",
    "URL" : "/enro/umbrella"
}

2.

{"Error" : "NoTranslation", "Note" : "No translation was found for umbrellaasd."}

My question is what do I put inside the success function below to see if the word exists or not?

function exista(word) {
    var ok = 0;
    var raspuns;
    $.ajax({
        async: false,
        url: "http://api.wordreference.com/0.8/ff175/json/roen/" + word,
        method: 'get',
        success: function(transport) {
        }

     });
    return ok;
}

Thank you! 🙂

Answer 1

transport is an object representing the server’s response, so you should be able to test for transport.Error and/or transport.Response to distinguish error and success responses.