JQuery ajax call receives invalid JSON, but no error handlers are called -
informational question rather issue need solved. couldn't find satisfactory answers elsewhere
i'm new jquery/js, , i'm trying test error handlers have ajax call rails backend. had hell of time getting handlers fire.
- i tried letting backend return 500 , stack trace, handlers didn't fire.  console shows vm26658:1 uncaught syntaxerror: unexpected token s in json @ position 0.
- i tried returning empty response bad request status, same error , behavior
- i got handlers fire returning empty (but formed) json response , 400 status
so seems ajax error handlers don't fire when response body cannot parsed. correct? if seems pretty substantial , unintuitive limitation of handler logic. if not, how being stupid?
thanks!
update code
in haml:
= simple_form_for @object, method: :put, url: setup_object_path, remote: true |f| = f.input :some_input = f.submit, class: 'js-submit' in coffeescript:
$(document).on 'ajaxstart', startfunction $(document).on 'ajaxerror', errorfunction $(document).on 'ajaxcomplete', completefunction result: startfunction fires 3 cases, errorfunction , completefunction fire case #3
i tried binding directly js-submit ajax:error, had same result
found issue.  in codebase had document level binding ajax:error used $.parsejson.  wasn't valid json blowing , stopping other error handling.
sorry confusion , help