[Developers] freebase-suggest modification

[Zodiac Seven]

Dae,

$.ajax is using a async callback too. Isn't there an approach which will
work synchronously like XmlHttpRequest?

On 5/14/08, Dae Park <daepark at metaweb.com> wrote:
>
> You should be able to $.ajax with "jsonp" as the dataType to
> accomplish what you want.
>
> -dae
>
>
>
> On May 13, 2008, at 11:09 AM, Zodiac Seven wrote:
>
> > This is more of a javascript question then a freebase one but
> > hoping someone here can help.
> >
> > I am trying to make a call to a webservice in freebase suggest
> > (http://code.google.com/p/freebase-suggest/)
> > This means I call a web service for every suggestion and depending
> > on that i display the suggestion.
> >
> > freebase.suggest.js Line 528.
> >
> > p.list_receive = function(input, txt, o) {//fb.log("list_receive",
> > input, query, o);
> > // handle errors
> > if (o.status !== '200 OK') {
> > fb.error("list_receive", o.code, o.messages, o);
> > return;
> > }
> > ...
> > var url = 'http://somesite/webservice?
> > callback=mycheckfunction&term=' + suggestKeyWord;
> >
> > // Create a script tag, set its src attribute and add it to the
> > document
> > // This triggers the HTTP request and submits the query
> > var script = document.createElement("script");
> > script.src = url;
> > document.body.appendChild(script);
> > ...
> > // further logic to add/remove the item
> >
> > My problem is that i'm using document.createElement("script" and
> > since that is async i have no idea of knowing the response of my
> > web service.
> > I could move the further logic into the callback but is there a
> > 'synchronous' way to wait until i get a response from my web service.
> > I can't use xmlHttpRequest because of the cross domain restriction.
> >
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