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Jquery: Return the value of a ajax call to caller function?

In the code below ,

I’m trying to put my ajax call in a function that needs it but makeIt() wont return “usa from the ajax call ? Or am I going about this all wrong?

var makeIt = function () {
    var getStuff = function () {
        return $.ajax({
          type: "POST",
          url: "my.php",
          data: {
            id: "2"
          },
          success: function (data) {
            data
          }, // data will return string "usa"
          error: function () {
            alert("error");
          }
        });
      };
    return getStuff();
  };
var result = makeIt() //result should = "usa"

Answer 1

Just writing data in the success function doesn’t achieve anything.

  success: function (data) {
    data
  }

It needs to be something like

  success: function (data) {
     doSomethingWith(data);
  }