This is a simple script to retrieve a 'CouchDB' session and get the user information. It utilizes 'couch.j's which uses 'jQuery'. I've been using JavaScript for a little while but I can't figure out how to pass return values and then use them.
$(document).ready(function () {
this.ctx = getCtx(); //it doesn’t appear that this is actually assigning a variable
console.log(this.ctx); //this returns “undefined”
});
function getCtx(){
$.couch.session({
async: false,
success: function(r) {
ctx = r.userCtx;
if (ctx != null){ //I added this check because otherwise ctx was returning undefined.
console.log("returning ctx: "+ctx);
//Log says: returning ctx: [object Object]
return ctx;
//I know this is returning an object, because of the line above
}
}
});
};
What is stumping me even more is that the console.log statement in the $(document).ready function is returning "undefined" before the console.log statement in the getCtx() function returns. Which means that it isn't giving getCtx() time to execute and actually get the session.