AJAX error handling in DOJO

In Order to return an Ajax error from the server, you need to set the response status to 500, For example if you are working with Java Servlets, your Java Servlet will return the error as follows:

public class AjaxServlet extends HttpServlet {

protected void doPost (HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)                               throws ServletException, IOException {

            try {

                        // Do whatever you want to do

                        } catch (Exception exception) {

            response.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);

            response.getWriter().write(exception.getMessage());

            response.flushBuffer();                               

            } finally {

// Clean up ...

            }

}

}

In the client side, you can get the server error message (after checking that the readyState of the XML HTTP Request (XHR) is 4, and the status of the XHR object is 500) from the responseText of the XHR object.

If you are using Dojo framework then in the Dojo xhrPost API, in order to get the error message, you can get it from the ioArgs parameter of the error callback as follows:

dojo.xhrPost( {

            url: 'service URL',

            content: {},

            handleAs: 'text',

            load: function(response, ioArgs) {

                        // Do something

            },

            error: function(response, ioArgs) {

                        alert("Failed while doing the operation: " + ioArgs.xhr.response);

            }

});

Using the ioArgs.xhr.response, you can get the full error message from the server response, you can also get the status code from the ioArgs.xhr.status.