Question

So I am using backbone.js, and I am trying to save a Model. On the server side I am generating a GUID for the Model that gets received and I am returning that GUID so that way the Model has it on the client side.

My function is as such

    this.save({},
        {
            success: function (model, response) {
                alert(response);
            },
            error: function (model, response) {
                alert(response)
            }
        });

It sends the object to the server, it returns the value I want from the post. It returns a (HTTP/1.1 200 OK) and yet it calls the error function (which has my proper return value in it)
Any ideas why?

I did the following in the console

JSON.stringify(response)
"{"readyState":4,"responseText":"5dad212e-73bf-4e01-911a-397b81f77022","status":200,"statusText":"OK"}"

So it is getting back the 200 and the guid but not firing success…. I really don’t want to just use the error function as that’s not what should be firing :p

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Looking at your resposneText, it seems server is not returning acceptable response – not a proper json object. Make the server return response like,

{ 
  "guid" : "id_to_be_returned" //, 
  // and other attributes to be added in the model 
}

And make the response type as json. It should work.