[aerogear-dev] Ajax usage (aerogear.ajax VS jquery.ajax)

[Matthias Wessendorf]

any comments ?

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was looking at the TODO app ([1]) and noticed that with the 'auth
> module' the APP DEV has to specify 'contentType' and 'dataType' for
> the login/register API calls. Not sure, but isn't that a bit
> cumbersome?
>
> This is not the case for any calls on the 'pipe' API, since it is
> using the aerogear.ajax util (see [2]), which applies the above
> 'contentType' and 'dataType' as default (see [3]), which is nice!
>
> The 'auth rest adapter', however is directly using the jQuery.ajax
> without applying the same defaults (see [4]). Perhaps we should apply
> the 'contentType' and 'dataType' default values for something like
> login or register as well?
>
> Thanks!
> Matthias
>
> [1] https://github.com/aerogear/TODO/blob/picketbox/client/src/main/webapp/js/app.js#L215
> [2] https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-js/blob/master/src/pipeline/adapters/rest.js#L97
> [3] https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-js/blob/master/src/utilities/aerogear.ajax.js#L13
> [4] https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-js/blob/master/src/authentication/adapters/rest.js#L72
>
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