returning data from server to an ajax request sent in client side javascript

  • Node.js web server
  • Request handler in web server
app.get('/documents/:id.:format?', function(req, res) {
   **dataTobeSentToClientSideJavaScript** = processRequest (req);
   ... 
})

  • ajax request from client side javascript

    var request = $.ajax({
url: "/documents/xxx",
});
request.done(handleResponse);

  • I am able to receive the request on server side

What code should be written on server side so that I can populate the "handleRespone" object expected in my ajax request above with dataTobeSentToClientSideJavaScript created on server side?

You want to use methods exposed by the response object such as res.write, res.end or res.json

take a look at http://nodejs.org/api/http.html#http_class_http_serverresponse (Node.js API)

and since you're using Express - http://expressjs.com/api.html#res.status