[aerogear-dev] AeroGear Android & JS API remove operation

[Kris Borchers]

So the issue here is the backend service. If the DELETE request is sent and an application/json response is expected, the backend must send valid JSON. An empty response is not valid JSON so jQuery gets it right by throwing an error. This was a recent addition/bug fix in jQuery to throw this error since that is the correct way to handle invalid JSON. The backend service needs to send something like [].

On Jun 6, 2013, at 10:32 AM, Apostolos Emmanouilidis <aemmanou at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> While writing some tests for the AeroGear JS API, I came across the following issue:
> 
> The Pipe.remove method of the AeroGear Android API does not require any data as a response. The callback has Void data. This means that the corresponding operation on the server/backend side returns an empty response.
> 
> However the AeroGear JS API relies on jQuery AJAX mechanism. When using the Pipe.remove method, jQuery tries to parse the empty response as JSON and it fails. I had to hack jQuery and add the following piece of code in order to use the same backend service for both AeroGear APIs:
> 
> parseJSON: function( data ) {
>         
>         if (!data) {
>             return null;
>         }
> 
> If you know any way to make the AeroGear JS Pipe.remove method to work when the server side returns an empty response and without hacking the JQuery, please share it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tolis
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