MVC3 ajax action request: handling answer - ajax

Question

I'm doing an Ajax request to an MVC3 action and I want to process the JsonResult in the success or error function.
Currently the behaviour is strange: Before hitting my breakpoint in the action it hits the error function.
Can anyone help me please and has a hint?
My view:
<form id="myForm">
//fields go here...
<button id="myButton" onclick="myFunction();">ButtonName</button>
</form>
The ajax call:
function myFunction() {
if ($('#myForm').valid() == false) {
return;
}
var data = {
val1: $("#val1").val(),
val2: $("#val2").val()
};
var url = "/Controller/Action";
$.ajax({
url: url,
type: 'POST',
dataType: 'json',
cache: false,
data: data,
success: function (data, statusCode, xhr) {
alert('1');
if (data && data.Message) {
alert(data.Message);
alert('2');
}
alert('3');
},
error: function (xhr, errorType, exception) {
alert('4');
var errorMessage = exception || xhr.statusText;
alert("There was an error: " + errorMessage);
}
});
return false;
}
My action:
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Action(Class objectName)
{
var response = new AjaxResponseViewModel();
try
{
var success = DoSomething(objectName);
if (success)
{
response.Success = true;
response.Message = "Successful!";
}
else
{
response.Message = "Error!";
}
}
catch (Exception exception)
{
response.Success = false;
response.Message = exception.Message;
}
return Json(response);
}
If you look in the ajax call I get directly the alert #4 and only then the action gets called which is too late. Unfortunately the exception is null. Directly after that the view gets closed.

Answer 1

You are not preventing the default onclick behavior. Can you try the following instead?
onclick="return myFunction()"