I'm trying to either use the remote method, or add a method that mimics the remote method to be able to send the entered data to a web service and get a json response back with the error state and error message.
so I have this json response:
{
"isError": "true",
"errorMessage": "The User Name you chose is already in use. Please enter another name."
}
I've used the remote method to get a true/false response, but not with extra data.
Any help would be appreciated.
Edit
Tried this, but of course it didn't work because the variable is not a global variable…
$.validator.addMethod("uniqueUserName", function(value, element) {
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "js/username.json",
contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
dataType:"json",
data: "{'" + $('#enterEmail').attr('id') + "': '" + $('#enterEmail').val() + "'}",
dataFilter: function(data) {
var isError = data.isError;
var uniqueError = data.errorMessage;
if(isError == "true"){
return false;
}
}
})
}, uniqueError); //this last line would typically be: }, "my error message");
see fiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/jasonday/fWk5u/
Best Answer
I ended up figuring it out. The return success is what I was failing - I kept returning, returning true, or returning false - and every one of them would "fail" validation.