Simple dummy action for learning Ajax

[kender]

Folks,

To learn Ajax call, I'd like to create a very simple action. It wouldn't take any data, or return any data, it would only return success code. So far, I wrote this:

    public class ProjectController : Controller
    {

        // AJAX: /Project/Save
        public ActionResult Save()
        {
            System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(600);     // A bit of latency to make the Ajax call more visible to human eye.
            return new EmptyResult();
        }
    }

But I'm having problems with calling this from jQuery. The calling code:

    $("button[name='btnSaveProject']").click(function () {
        console.log("make ajax call");
        $.ajax({
            url: "/Project/Save",
            type: "GET",
            timeout: 8000,
            cache: false
        }).done(function () {
            console.log("ajax call successful");
        }).fail(function (jqXHR, textStatus) {
            console.log("something went awry. " + textStatus);
        });
    });

Unfortunately, .fail() gets called back.

Any suggestion, insight or reference is really appreciated!

Cheers,
- Nick

[MonkOFox]

I'm not sure, but maybe the /Project/Save needs to have the specific extension in the url as well? I'm not sure if the default dataType is 'text' or not but you could try specifying that as well:

$.ajax({
url: '/Project/Save.aspx',
type: 'get',
dataType: 'text',
timeout: 8000,
cache: false,
success: function(data){
     console.log("ajax call successful: " + data);
},
error: function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown){
 console.log("something went awry. " + textStatus);
}
});

Justin