Question

I’m using jquery get to call an ASP MVC controller. Which returns a partial view. i.e. a bunch of html

In the case of an error I’d like to populate some info for the user but ASP MVC is sending a full page back so I need to grab text out of it.

I’ve tried:

$('#edit').ajaxError(function (e, xhr, settings, exception) {
        var item = xhr.responseText.text();
        var response = item.match(/.*<body.*>(.*)<\/body>.*/);
        if (!response) {
            $(this).html('Error: ' + xhr.status + ' Message:' + xhr.statusText);
        }
        else {
            $(this).html(response);
        };
    });

But I get Uncaught TypeError: [followed by the contents of xhr.responseText] has no method text

If I call match directly on responseText I get null as a result.

I’m guessing I’ve got some fundamental misunderstanding going on so if anyone can help…

Answer 1

You should also modify your regular expression to include newline characters, i.e.

var response = xhr.responseText.match(/.*<body.*>([\s\S]*)<\/body>.*/);