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Ryan McDonough
Ryan McDonough

Reputation: 10012

Unexpected Token

I have the following function:

   function LogEvent(ID,description) {
            var userName = document.getElementById('ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_username').value;
            var download_link = document.getElementById('ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_url_download').value;


             $.ajax({
                        type: "GET",
                        url: "Logger.aspx",
                        data: { person: userName, item: ID, desc: description },
                        contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
                        dataType: "json",
                        success: {  
                               $.fileDownload(download_link);
                            }                                
                     });

    }

Now I get an error around the $.fileDownload(download_link); line. 

Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token .

If I remove the entire success section it works fine, if I replace the $.file... with alert('hi'); I get a similar error.

Note, the filedownload function is the jquery.download plugin, but I know the issue is more general as noted when using alert - which also doesn't work.

I'm not sure where I am going wrong with this code?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 126

Answers (2)

JJJ
JJJ

Reputation: 33163

You've forgotten the function() part of the callback function, or you're mixing object and function notations.

success: function() {  
    $.fileDownload(download_link);
}

Upvotes: 3

Waleed Khan
Waleed Khan

Reputation: 11467

It should be

success: function() {
    $.fileDownload(download_link);
}

As it is, the parser is probably assuming

{
    $.fileDownload(download_link);
}

is an object, which doesn't make sense since objects should be key-value pairs.

Upvotes: 3

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