How to get a response from servlet via ajax?

How should I get the Ajax response from the servlet?

• I have an Ajax request coming from client side after a key press. The servlet returns a string. How should I grab this string on the client side? It should be split on "," on the client side and display the list. We are using Velocity for rendering the HTML. Servlet code: public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException { response.setContentType("text/html"); PrintWriter out = response.getWriter(); String acInfo = request.getQueryString(); SomeDAO dao = new SomeDAO(); ArrayList<String> results = dao.acResults(acInfo); StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); int count = 0; for (String acResult : results) { sb.append(acResult); count++; if (count == results.size()) { break; } sb.append(','); } out.println(sb); out.close(); }

• Answer:

  Dont use "async: false" or it will lose all the AJAX meaning. Do all the stuff you want in the success method. To split by ',', just use split() and to easily iterate arrays use $.each() $.ajax({ type: "GET", url: "/YourServletURL", success : function(text) { var list = text.split(','); $.each(list, function(index, value) { alert(index + ': ' + value); }); // This will show the values. Change "alert" for $('div#mydiv').html(value) or so } });