Cancelling an ajax request via user interaction

[Pivetal]

We have the following scenario:

A user  selects a node from a tree on the left hand side, we then use the information from the node to populate the right hand side using:

function PerformAjaxRequest(i_Val)

                {  

                    $find("<%= MasterAjaxManager.ClientID %>").ajaxRequest(i_Val);                        

                }

Where MasterAjaxManager is a RadAjaxManager. My problem is that when a user then selects multiple nodes on the tree in quick succession, the right hand side becomes out of sync with the actual node selected on the tree. Hence I would like to cancel the request. The method I have observed for cancelling an request I have seen is the following:

function onRequestStart(sender, arguments)
{

return false;

}

In the onRequestStart function I would then poll a variable (delay in between each poll) which will tell me if another node has been selected if so the function will return false else carry on polling until either a timeout has been reached or the ajaxRequest has been successful.

I am contacting your team to see if there is a better way of doing this???

Many Thanks in Advance

Bleddyn

[Sebastian]

Hello Bleddyn,

Indeed this seems to be a possible solution for your particular scenario - feel free to use it if viable for your configuration. Also please have in mind that you can cancel the ajax request from within the OnRequestStart handler of the ajax manager according to the ASP.NET AJAX conventions:

function onRequestStart(sender, arguments)
{
  arguments.set_cancel(true);
}

An alternative approach would be to implement ajax request queueing as discussed in this documentation topic.

Best regards,
Stephen
the Telerik team

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[Pivetal]

thnaks for your reply, ajax request queueing is just what I was looking for!