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I have a function foo which makes an Ajax request. How can I return the response from foo?

I tried to return the value from the success callback as well as assigning the response to a local variable inside the function and return that one, but none of those ways actually return the response.

function foo() {
    var result;

    $.ajax({
        url: '...',
        success: function(response) {
            result = response;
            // return response; // < - I tried that one as well
        }
    });

    return result;
}

var result = foo(); // It always ends up being `undefined`.

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February 16, 2017 at 10:12 am LOGIC

You call your friend again for the same reason. But this time you tell him that you are in a hurry and he should call you back on your mobile phone. You hang up, leave the house and do whatever you planned to do. Once your friend calls you back, you are dealing with the information he gave to you.

That’s exactly what’s happening when you do an Ajax request.

findItem(function(item) {
    // Do something with item
});
doSomethingElse();

Instead of waiting for the response, the execution continues immediately and the statement after the Ajax call is executed. To get the response eventually, you provide a function to be called once the response was received, a callback (notice something? call back ?). Any statement coming after that call is executed before the callback is called.

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