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

[Apostolos Emmanouilidis]

On Thu, 2013-06-06 at 10:44 -0500, Kris Borchers wrote:

> 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 [].
> 


Thanks. I thought that the message body could be empty for the responses
of DELETE requests. However as of jQ 1.9 empty responses are rejected. 


> 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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