I want to track the mouse click events on a set of UI components on a set of pages. To do this, I am using the following jquery/ajax call(trimmed out u):
1.Ajax call which will add the click logging.
myClickLogger = {
endpoint: '/path/to/my/logging/endpoint.html',
logClickEvent: function(clickCode) {
$.ajax({
'type': 'POST',
'url': this.endpoint,
'async': true,
'cache': false,
'global': false,
'data': {
'clickCode':clickCode
},
'error': function(xhr,status,err){
alert("DEBUG: status"+status+" \nError:"+err);
},
'success': function(data){
if(data.status!=200){
alert("Error occured!");
}
}
});
}
};
2.JQuery click event which will call the ajax logger(the clickCode is an identifier for which button/image was clicked):
$(document).ready(function() {
$(".myClickEvent[clickName]").click(function() {
var clickCode = $(this).attr("clickName");
myClickLogger.logClickEvent(clickCode);
});
});
The above ajax call(1.) is "canceled" by browser whenever the button click being tracked takes to a new page.
If I change 'aysnc' to 'false', then the ajax call succeeds.
Also, click events which do not take to a new page succeed. Only the click events taking to new page are being canceled.
I do not want to make the call synchronous.
Any ideas, what could be the issue? How can I guarantee that the asynchronous call before is finished when the click event takes to a new page?
