Jquery ajax error callback

Question

I need some suggestions here or maybe some explanations. I have a jquery ajax call,

$.ajax({
 type: "GET",
 url: base_url+'/ajax/fetch/counts/',
 dataType: 'json',
 data: {},
 error: function(xhr, error){
        console.debug(xhr); console.debug(error);
 },
 success: display_counts
});

It's working fine. My success callback fires correctly with response. But, what I noticed is that my error callback is fired every time, even when my call returns success status 200. In the above error callback, I see that object xhr.status is 200.

Can anybody explain what's wrong, or what is happening here? error callback is supposed to fire only when I have 404 or maybe a non-200 response. Are my assumptions correct?

Thanks.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3642348/jquery-ajax-error-callback

Answer 1

Error callback is called on http errors, but also if JSON parsing on the response fails. This is what's probably happening if response code is 200 but you still are thrown to error callback.