Do a post with an Ajax Tooltip

[Anthony]

Hi
  I'm expecting the answer 'no' here.

Is it possible to do a POST call with a Kendo Tooltip rather than a GET? I appreciate it's probably an unusual request.

thanks

[Anthony]

Just to add, the request will still be idempotent but I just anticipate unusual cases where I might have to pass a lot of querystring data

[Alexander Popov]

Hi Anthony,

This could be achieved by passing a function to the Tooltip's content option instead of an object containing the url. The function can then be used to make a synchronous POST request, store its response in a variable and return it. For example: 

content: function(e) {
  var result = "";
  $.ajax({
    async: false, //ensure the response is received before exiting the content function
    type: "POST",
    url: ...,
    success: function(r){
        result = r;
    }
  });
  return r;
}

Regards,
Alexander Popov
Telerik

 

 

[Anthony]

great thanks

[Marc]

As an alternative to using synchronous POST requests, setting the e.options.type property in the requestStart event to POST will also work.

 

$("#grid").kendoTooltip({
    filter: "td:nth-child(5)", //fifth column of the grid
    content: {
        url: ...
    },
    position: "bottom",
    requestStart: function(e) {
        e.options.type = "POST";
        e.options.data = ...;
    }
});