Return two objects in ajax call

Question

Return two objects in ajax call

I am using nodejs with expressjs. I am making an ajax call that queries a job table for multiple jobs and also each job's corresponding Customer table. Individually I get two arrays' of objects. I populate the second array by iterating through the selected jobs' Customer ID like.

    for(var i=0; i<jobs.length; i++) {
        for(j=0; j<customerList.length; j++) {
            if (customerList[j].ID == jobs[i].CustomerID) {             
                   customerRecords.push(customerList[j]);   
            }
    }

What I am left with is two arrays of objects - 1. jobs 2. customerRecords. I have tried in many different forms to return these two objects to my view with as many variations of res.send(object/objects) that I could think of with no success. After googling, from what I read by a similar post I can only return one object with my ajax call? Is this true? how do I return both of these arrays of objects to my view?

-on standby, thank you for any help.

javascript
jquery
ajax
node.js

Answer 1

You simply put them both in another object. Either:

{
  "array1" : [1,2],
  "array2" : [3,4]
}

or

[
  [1,2],
  [3,4]
]

Answer 2

After googling, from what I read by a similar post I can only return one object with my ajax call? Is this true? how do I return both of these arrays of objects to my view?

Yes and no. Of course, you could only have one result. But you could add both:

{
    customerList:[],
    jobs:[]
}

So in effect: two arrays in one object. After you got the data: result.customerList (assuming you saved the outcome in an object named »result«) gives you the customerlist (as expected).