How to send call to JSP from AJAX? - ajax

Question

This servlet code,here 1st i want to send return message(if message!=null) to the Ajax for alert and 2nd one if message==null i want to call another jsp with pass the list to this jsp.
if(message!=null){
response.setContentType("text/plain");
response.getWriter().write(message);
}else{
JSONObject jobj = new JSONObject();
String urlToRedirect = "SearchEmployee.jsp";
jobj.put("url",urlToRedirect );
response.getWriter().write(jobj.toString());
}
Here i cant understand how to call this jsp url in else part
$.ajax({
type:"POST",
url:'../SearchEmployeeServlet',
data:$('#DisplayEmployeeListForm').serialize(),//$('form').serialize();
success:function(msg){
if(msg!=""){
alert(msg);
window.location.reload(true);
}else{
....here i want to call 2nd jsp
}
}
});

Answer 1

You could just forward the request server-side, to avoid needing the client to make a second request:
request.getRequestDispatcher("SearchEmployee.jsp").forward(request, response);
Or alternatively, you could send an HTTP redirect response, so the client should handle the redirection to the second request automatically:
response.sendRedirect(response.encodeRedirectUrl("SearchEmployee.jsp"));
Note that how you handle this in the JavaScript depends on the datatype you expect to receive from SearchEmployee.jsp. For example, if it is XML and you have set the response content-type to text/xml jQuery will parse it and pass you an XML DOM object to your success function:
success:function(msg) {
if (msg instanceof XMLDocument) {
// handle list
} else {
alert(msg);
window.location.reload(true);
}
}
If you're expecting HTML, this may be returned as a string, so you could test to see if your returned string starts with some HTML. For example, if your HTML will always start with a <ul> tag:
success:function(msg) {
if (msg.startsWith("<ul>")) { // note you may need to do msg = $.trim(msg) first
// handle list
} else {
alert(msg);
window.location.reload(true);
}
}
If you don't want to auto-forward as suggested above and you'd rather stick with your current approach, there are a few things you'll need to change.
Using if(msg!="") in your success function is bad as that will return true as long as the server does not return an empty response (so in both cases you'll get an alert).
The first thing to do is to add a content-type header to your servlet code to indicate you're returning JSON in the second case:
response.setContentType("application/json");
response.getWriter().write(jobj.toString());
Now when jQuery handles the response, it will attempt to parse it as JSON before calling the success function. As such, you can now test in your success function whether the argument jQuery has given you is an object or a string:
success:function(msg){
if (typeof msg === "object") {
// you got the JSON response
$.ajax({
url: msg.url,
// etc...
});
} else {
// you got the plain text response
alert(msg);
window.location.reload(true);
}
}

Answer 2

Just make the ajax request in else part as you did above.
$.ajax({url: "jsp url", success: function(result){
}});
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