callback not triggered

[darkstar1]

I modified the _createUser() method to call another method in the same users.js (loaded with the new user creation form) as follows:
<javascript>
        _createUser: function ConsoleUsers__createUser(handler)
        {
            // TODO: respect minimum field length for username/password
        
            var me = this;
            var fnGetter = function(id)
            {
                return YAHOO.lang.trim(Dom.get(me.id + id).value);
            };
        
            // verify password against second field
            var password = fnGetter("-create-password");
            var verifypw = fnGetter("-create-verifypassword");
            if (password !== verifypw)
            {
                Alfresco.util.PopupManager.displayMessage(
                {
                    text: this._msg("message.password-validate-failure")
                });
                return;
            }
        
            // gather up the data for our JSON PUT request
            var username = fnGetter("-create-username");
            var quota = this._calculateQuota(me.id + "-create");
        
            // gather the selected groups from the panel
            var groups = this._getCurrentPanel().getGroups();
        
            var personObj =
            {
                userName: username,
                password: password,
                firstName: fnGetter("-create-firstname"),
                lastName: fnGetter("-create-lastname"),
                location: fnGetter("-create-location"),
                email: fnGetter("-create-email"),
                disableAccount: Dom.get(me.id + "-create-disableaccount").checked,
                quota: quota,
                groups: groups
            };
            alert("This alert is triggered");
            Alfresco.util.Ajax.request(
            {
                url: Alfresco.constants.PROXY_URI + "api/people",
                method: Alfresco.util.Ajax.POST,
                dataObj: personObj,
                requestContentType: Alfresco.util.Ajax.JSON,
                successCallback:
                {
                    fn: function(res){   
                        alert("This alert is not triggered");
                        this._setCustomProperties();
                    },
                    scope: this
                },
                failureCallback:
                {
                    fn: function(res)
                    {
                        if (res.serverResponse.status === 409)
                        {
                            // username already exists
                            Alfresco.util.PopupManager.displayPrompt(
                            {
                                title: this._msg("message.failure"),
                                text: this._msg("message.create-user-exists")
                            });
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            // generic error
                            var json = Alfresco.util.parseJSON(res.serverResponse.responseText);
                            Alfresco.util.PopupManager.displayPrompt(
                            {
                                title: this._msg("message.failure"),
                                text: this._msg("message.create-failure", json ? json.message : res.serverResponse.statusText)
                            });
                        }
                    },
                    scope: this
                }
            });
     
        },
      
        _setCustomProperties: function ConsoleUsers__setCustomProperties() {
            var me = this;
            var fnGetter = function(id){
                return YAHOO.lang.trim(Dom.get(me.id + id).value);
            };
    
            alert("About to set custom properties");
            var username = fnGetter("-create-username");
            var customPersonObj =
            {
                username: username,
                department: fnGetter("-create-department"),
                otherLanguages: fnGetter("-create-otherLanguages"),
                spokenLanguages: fnGetter("-create-spokenLanguages")
            };
     
            alert("username is :"+username);
            Alfresco.util.Ajax.request(
            {
                url: Alfresco.constants.PROXY_URI + "com/test/setUserCustomProperties/"+username,
                method: Alfresco.util.Ajax.POST,
                dataObj: customPersonObj,
                requestContentType: Alfresco.util.Ajax.JSON,
                successCallback:
                {
                    fn: function(res){
                        window.scrollTo(0, 0);
                        Alfresco.util.PopupManager.displayMessage(
                        {
                           text: me._msg("message.create-success")
                        });

                        // clear fields
                        this._getCurrentPanel().clear();
                        Dom.get(me.id + "-create-firstname").focus();
                    },
                    scope: this
                },
                failureCallback:
                {
                    fn: function(res)
                    {
                        if (res.serverResponse.status === 409)
                        {
                            // username already exists
                            Alfresco.util.PopupManager.displayPrompt(
                            {
                                title: this._msg("message.failure"),
                                text: this._msg("PB 409")
                            });
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            // generic error
                            var json = Alfresco.util.parseJSON(res.serverResponse.responseText);
                            Alfresco.util.PopupManager.displayPrompt(
                            {
                                title: this._msg("message.failure"),
                                text: this._msg("PB")
                            });
                        }
                    },
                    scope: this
                }
            });
      
    
        },
</javascript>

The problem I have is that the successCallback in the _createUser() isn't executed and I'm not sure why.

[zladuric]

Does your Ajax call get executed at all? Perhaps a silly question.
If it does, what kind of response do you get? What is in it?

[darkstar1]

The Ajax calls GET and it does get executed as the user is created. The response seems to be the same script I according to what I glimpsed in the chromium debugger.

[zladuric]

Ajax calls GET? That's weird, you said

       url: Alfresco.constants.PROXY_URI + "api/people",

                method: Alfresco.util.Ajax.POST
                …‍‍‍‍

Do you see that POST call in the chromium network tab?

Also, a side advice, while in development, you can do a lot of console.log("message", object) or Alfresco.logger.debug("message") stuff, easier then to have to click on all those alerts

At least to me it is.

[darkstar1]

Yes. There's a POST and you're correct I'll use those methodsto log instead from now on. Thanks

[zladuric]

And what does the POST response have? Is it a status 200 or something in the 4xx/5xx range?

[darkstar1]

No the post response doesn't have a status (is completely empty) I had capture the logs to see it because it only shows for less than a sec.

[zladuric]

Oh? Well, it sounds like the page reloads after your post event?

Can you click on the Chrome's "Preserve log on navigation' and see if it disappears then?

[darkstar1]

That's how I was able to view the response of the request. the post is listed but no response info, so it shows up in the logs

[darkstar1]

It took the consultant dev 6 hours to find out why but further up the users.js file in the CreatePanelHandler() function  at line 645 of the original file is the following code :

             // Buttons
            parent.widgets.createuserOkButton = Alfresco.util.createYUIButton(parent, "createuser-ok-button", parent.onCreateUserOKClick,
            {
               type: "submit"
            });
‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

because the button was submitting the form it was instantly redirecting to another page and killing the post response. so the <strong>type: "submit"</strong> needed to be removed and everything worked.