Novice with jQuery AJAX

Question

I am simply learing Ajax with jQuery and have a simple page method that takes in a parameter and returns a string. For some reason, I am not getting the return string but I am getting to my 'success' message:

$(document).ready(function() {
            $.ajax({
                type: "POST",
                url: "testFormMatt.aspx/sayHello",
                contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
                data: '{"name": "matt"}',
                dataType: "json",
                success: function(msg) {
                    $.jGrowl('The web service has been successfully called');
                    $('#result').append(msg);
                }
            });
});

Answer 1

When you call append, you need to specify the property of the JSON object that you want to append.

So if your page is returning:

{ message: "Hello, Matt" }

Then you'd need to call append like this:

$("#result").append(msg.message);

If your page is not returning JSON, then you need to take the dataType: "json" out of the $.ajax call. The dataType parameter is for specifying the expected data type of the response, not the data type of the request.