jQuery.ajax
attempts to convert the response body depending on the specified dataType
parameter or the Content-Type
header sent by the server. If the conversion fails (e.g. if the JSON/XML is invalid), the error callback is fired.
Your AJAX code contains:
dataType: "json"
In this case jQuery:
Evaluates the response as JSON and returns a JavaScript object. […]
The JSON data is parsed in a strict manner; any malformed JSON is
rejected and a parse error is thrown. […] an empty response is also
rejected; the server should return a response of null or {} instead.
Your server-side code returns HTML snippet with 200 OK
status. jQuery was expecting valid JSON and therefore fires the error callback complaining about parseerror
.
The solution is to remove the dataType
parameter from your jQuery code and make the server-side code return:
Content-Type: application/javascript
alert("Record Deleted");
But I would rather suggest returning a JSON response and display the message inside the success callback:
Content-Type: application/json
{"message": "Record deleted"}