Getting an array from AJAX call

Question

I'm working on a summernote editor and trying to implement the "mention" feature by pulling usernames from a database.

match: /\B@(\w*)$/,                     
            mentions:function(keyword, callback) {
            $.ajax({
                    url: document.location.origin+"/topic/groupusers/"+topic_cat,
                    type: 'GET',
                    success: function(callback) {                       
                        callback = $(callback).filter('.mentiondata').text();                           
                    }       
                });
            },


            search: function (keyword, callback) {
                callback($.grep(this.mentions, function (item) {
                    return item.indexOf(keyword) == 0;
                  }));
            },
            content: function (item) {
                return '@' + item;
            }

The mention attribute needs to have this format: mentions: ['jayden', 'sam', 'alvin', 'david'],

when I console.log callback inside the success function that's what I get. However, it doesn't work on search event and gives me item is undefined error

Where do you call search? It looks like you aren't handling the async callback properly. — Carcigenicate, Jul 07 '17 at 11:55
Are y getting mentions in search function. `this.mention` what result? — Prashant Tapase, Jul 07 '17 at 11:57
Also, your success callback seems to be broken. All you do is reassign the local `callback`. On second thought, that dupe target may be wrong. I suspect async is causing part of your problems here, but the code otherwise has problems too. — Carcigenicate, Jul 07 '17 at 12:00
@Grasper instead of assiging value to callback, return value.. `return $(callback).filter('.mentiondata').text();` — Prashant Tapase, Jul 07 '17 at 12:02
you've got too many variables named callback. Could be a scoping problem. — ADyson, Jul 07 '17 at 12:18

Prashant Tapase · Answer 1 · 2018-07-04T12:18:18.683

Pass keyword or your parameters in mention function while search.
Return value of success in mentions function

 match: /\B@(\w*)$/,
  mentions: function(keyword) {
    $.ajax({
      url: document.location.origin + "/topic/groupusers/" + topic_cat,
      type: 'GET',
      success: function(result) {
        return $(result).filter('.mentiondata').text();
      }
    });
  },
  search: function(keyword, callback) {
    callback($.grep(this.mentions(keyword), function(item) {
      return item.indexOf(keyword) == 0;
    }));
  },
  content: function(item) {
    return '@' + item;
  }

Sample code

I'm getting `a is undefined` in jquery.min.js – Grasper Jul 07 '17 at 12:25 — Grasper, Jul 07 '17 at 12:25

Getting an array from AJAX call

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