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$.ajax context option

I’ve got some code that looks like this:

$.post(self.baseUrl + 'api/method',
        {param1: data},
        function (response) {
            // Do something
        });

I want to pass a reference to the self object through to the callback, which I imagined would be something like this:

$.post(self.baseUrl + 'api/method',
        {param1: data},
        function (response, self) {
            // Do something
        });

However, it doesn’t work like this, the jQuery documentation doesn’t show a way that would make this possible and a cursory Google search hasn’t turned up anything. Is this possible, and how can I do so?

Answer 1

If you use the $.ajax method you can specify a context:

$.ajax({
    type: "post",
    context: self,
    data: {param1: data},
    success: function (response) {
        console.log(this); // now 'this' refers to self

    }
});