Error with the use of AJS.$.ajax

Paulo Castelo

Hi.

I'm following the same code I've found in other sites to check the groups for the current user (namely on http://www.j-tricks.com/1/post/2012/02/some-ajs-tricks.html) in Confluence and the following render error is always returned: "Error rendering macro 'macro-name' : Error occurred rendering template content".

Here's the script:

AJS.toInit(function() {

var username = getCurrentUserName();
(... some more script ...)
});

function getCurrentUserName() {
var user;
AJS.$.ajax({
url: "/rest/gadget/1.0/currentUser",
type: 'get',
dataType: 'json',
async: false,
success: function(data) {
user = data.username;
}
});
return user;
}

I debugged the script and the error happens on the AJS.$.ajax call. I tested the URL directly to check if the current user info is being returned and it is.

Tried some alternatives, but without any luck. The error happens everytime the AJS.$ is called. If I remove that block everything works fine.

Does anyone has some suggestion on how to solve this (or bringing me a bit closer to the solution)?

Thank you.

Nadir MEZIANI

Hi,

Add to your url contextPath it will be like this
url: contextPath+"/rest/gadget/1.0/currentUser"

function getCurrentUserName(){
var user;
AJS.$.ajax({
url: contextPath+"/rest/gadget/1.0/currentUser",
type: 'get',
dataType: 'json',
async: false,
success: function(data) {
user = data.username;
}
});
return user;
}