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I want to return function result after calculating in a for loop

i want to check whether is a valid item or not before saving the values. then i create java-script function to check validation and return result. but the problem is this function returns before validate items, the always true the condition above if condition. my code is below. could anyone help me please?
this is series of ajax call and i'm not aware of how to use callback for this..
if(IsValidItems() != ''){
//Do something
}
function IsValidItems() {
var IsvalidStatus = '';
var lineqty = 0;
var LineNumber = -1;
var allRowData = jQuery("#tblJQGrid").jqGrid("getRowData");
for (var i = 0; i < allRowData.length - 1; i++) {
if (allRowData[i].BulkItem != "False") {
if (allRowData[i].quantity != '') {
lineqty = parseInt(allRowData[i].quantity);
LineNumber = i + 1;
var postURL = "/BookingDetail/GetItemAvailablity?ItemCode=" + allRowData[i].itemCode + "&StartDate=" + allRowData[i].StartDate + "&EndDate=" + allRowData[i].EndDate + "&srno=" + allRowData[i].srno + "&locationID=" + allRowData[i].Location;
$.ajax({
url: postURL,
dataType: "json",
contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
data: "",
type: "POST",
async: true,
dataFilter: function (data) {
return data;
},
success: function (result) {
if (lineqty > parseInt(result)) {
IsvalidStatus = IsvalidStatus + "," + LineNumber;
}
},
error: function (XMLHttpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown) { }
});
}
}
}
return IsvalidStatus;
}

How to return a parent function when the function is recursive Javascript

I've been completing FreeCodeCamp and have given myself the task of fetching an image from the Wikipedia API. I am so close but I am just having trouble with this recursive function.
I'm having some trouble with an ajax request. I want the whole success function to return when obj===label. However, it is only returning one instance of findObjByLabel().
What can I do to make the success function completely return as soon as the label is found?
var wikiUrl = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&titles=India&prop=pageimages&pithumbsize=300&callback=?";
// this retrieves info about the wikiUrlImg
$.ajax( {
url: wikiUrl,
data: {
format: 'json'
},
dataType: 'json',
type: 'GET',
headers: { 'Api-User-Agent': 'Example/1.0' },
success: function(data) {
console.log("wiki api success");
var findLabel = findObjByLabel(data,"India",1);
function findObjByLabel(obj, label, iterrations){
var itterationLimit = "9";
if (iterrations < itterationLimit){
for(var i in obj){
if(obj === label){
console.log(">>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> !!!its the label!!! <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<");
// ****************I want the success function to return here! ****************
return "something";
}else{
console.log(">>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>its not the label<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<");
console.log("i= " + i);
if(obj.hasOwnProperty(i)){
iterrations+=1;
console.log("obj[i] : " + obj[i]);
var foundLabel = findObjByLabel(obj[i], label, iterrations);
}
}
}
}
}//end of findObjByLabel function
}, //end of success
error: function(){
console.log("failure of getWiki api");
}
});

Substitute obj[i] for obj at if condition, use break within if statement, place return statement outside of for loop
var wikiUrl = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&titles=India&prop=pageimages&pithumbsize=300&callback=?";
// this retrieves info about the wikiUrlImg
$.ajax({
url: wikiUrl,
data: {
format: 'json'
},
dataType: 'json',
type: 'GET',
headers: {
'Api-User-Agent': 'Example/1.0'
},
success: function(data) {
console.log("wiki api success");
var findLabel = findObjByLabel(data, "India", 1);
function findObjByLabel(obj, label, iterrations) {
var itterationLimit = "9";
if (iterrations < itterationLimit) {
for (var i in obj) {
if (obj[i] === label) {
console.log(">>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> !!!its the label!!! <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<");
// ****************I want the success function to return here! ****************
break; // break `for` loop
} else {
console.log(">>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>its not the label<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<");
console.log("i= " + i);
if (obj.hasOwnProperty(i)) {
iterrations += 1;
console.log("obj[i] : " + obj[i]);
var foundLabel = findObjByLabel(obj[i], label, iterrations);
}
}
}
}
return "something"; // return `"something"`
} //end of findObjByLabel function
console.log(findLabel); // "something"
}, //end of success
error: function() {
console.log("failure of getWiki api");
}
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

Update textarea after get response from servlet in javascript

I have a program which calls a function in javascript with 1 o more requests to 1 servlet, I want to execute request after request and get the response after each exucution, to make this I have 1 function, but it only shows the result after all requests have been executed.
function cmd(args) {
width = 0;
var res = args.split('\n');
var largo = res.length;
var progressLength = 100 / largo;
for (var i = 0; i < largo; i++)
{
if (res[i] == 'desconectar')
{
desconectar();
break;
}
else
{
executeCMD(res[i]);
}
}
}
function executeCMD(args)
{
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: 'Controlador',
data: {cmd: args, operacion: 1},
success: function (response) {
document.getElementById('respuesta').value = document.getElementById('respuesta').value + response;
},
dataType: 'text',
async: false
});
}
If I add window.alert(response); inside success field it shows the progress step by step and works fine, but it show alerts which I don't want.
This is I want http://imgur.com/a/9nclR but I'm getting only last picture.

The solution if anyone is intersting was using a recursive function as next:
function cmd(args) {
width = 0;
move(0);
var res = args.split('\n');
var largo = res.length;
var valInit = 0;
if (largo > valInit)
{
executeCMD(res, valInit);
}
}
function executeCMD(args, i)
{
$(document).ready(function () {
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: 'ControladorServlet',
data: {cmd: args[i], operacion: 1, ticket: ticket, iddispositivo: sesion},
success: function (response) {
var textarea = document.getElementById('respuesta');
var res = response.trim().split('\n');
if(error){//dc}
else
{
document.getElementById('respuesta').value = document.getElementById('respuesta').value + response.trim() + "\n\n";
var valor = (100) * (i + 1) / args.length;
move(valor);
if (i + 1 < args.length)
{
executeCMD(args, i + 1);
}
}
},
dataType: 'text'
});
});
}

JavaScript callback function when working withing a loop

This is what the code below does:
Goes to a table in a database and retrieves some search criteria I will send to Google API (the PHP file is getSearchSon.php)
After having the results, I want to loop around it, call the Google API (searchCriteriasFuc) and store the results in an array
The last part of the code is doing an update to two different tables with the results returned from Google API (updateSearchDb.php)
In my code, I am using setTimeout in a few occasions which I don't like. Instead of using setTimeout, I would like to properly use callback functions in a more efficient way (This might be the cause of my problem) What is the best way of me doing that?
$(document).ready(function() {
$.ajax({
url: 'getSearchSon.php',
type: 'POST',
async: true,
dataType: 'Text',
/*data: { }, */
error: function(a, b, c) { alert(a+b+c); }
}).done(function(data) {
if(data != "connection")
{
var dataSent = data.split("|");
var search_criterias = JSON.parse(dataSent[0]);
var date_length = dataSent[1];
var divison_factor = dataSent[2];
var length = search_criterias.length;
var arrXhr = [];
var totalResultsArr = [];
var helperFunc = function(arrayIndex)
{
return function()
{
var totalResults = 0;
if (arrXhr[arrayIndex].readyState === 4 && arrXhr[arrayIndex].status == 200)
{
totalResults = JSON.parse(arrXhr[arrayIndex].responseText).queries.nextPage[0].totalResults;
totalResultsArr.push(totalResults);
}
}
}
var searchCriteriasFuc = function getTotalResults(searchParam, callback)
{
var searchParamLength = searchParam.length;
var url = "";
for(var i=0;i<searchParamLength;i++)
{
url = "https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1?q=" + searchParam[i] + "&cx=005894674626506192190:j1zrf-as6vg&key=AIzaSyCanPMUPsyt3mXQd2GOhMZgD4l472jcDNM&dateRestrict=" + date_length;
arrXhr[i] = new XMLHttpRequest();
arrXhr[i].open("GET", url, true);
arrXhr[i].send();
arrXhr[i].onreadystatechange = helperFunc(i);
}
setTimeout(function()
{
if (typeof callback == "function") callback.apply(totalResultsArr);
}, 4000);
return searchParam;
}
function callbackFunction()
{
var results_arr = this.sort();
var countResultsArr = JSON.stringify(results_arr);
$.ajax({
url: 'updateSearchDb.php',
type: 'POST',
async: true,
dataType: 'Text',
data: { 'countResultsArr': countResultsArr },
error: function(a, b, c) { alert(a+b+c); }
}).done(function(data) {
var resultsDiv = document.getElementById("search");
if(data == "NORECORD") resultsDiv.innerHTML = 'Updated failed. There was a problem with the database';
else resultsDiv.innerHTML = 'Update was successful';
}); //end second ajax call
}
//llamando funcion principal
var arrSearchCriterias = searchCriteriasFuc(search_criterias, callbackFunction);
}
else
{
alert("Problem with MySQL connection.");
}
}); // end ajax
});

How you did it in 2015
Callbacks are things of the past. Nowadays you represent result values of asynchronous tasks with Promises. Here is some untested code:
$(document).ready(function() {
$.ajax({
url: 'getSearchSon.php',
type: 'POST',
async: true,
dataType: 'text'
/*data: { }, */
}).then(function(data) {
if (data == 'connection') {
alert("Problem with MySQL connection.");
} else {
var dataSent = data.split("|");
var search_criterias = JSON.parse(dataSent[0]);
var date_length = dataSent[1];
var divison_factor = dataSent[2];
return Promise.all(search_criterias.map(function(criteria) {
return $.ajax({
url: "https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1"
+ "?q=" + criteria
+ "&cx=005894674626506192190:j1zrf-as6vg"
+ "&key=AIzaSyCanPMUPsyt3mXQd2GOhMZgD4l472jcDNM"
+ "&dateRestrict=" + date_length,
type: 'GET'
});
})).then(function(totalResultsArr) {
totalResultsArr.sort();
var countResultsArr = JSON.stringify(totalResultsArr);
return $.ajax({
url: 'updateSearchDb.php',
type: 'POST',
async: true,
dataType: 'text',
data: { 'countResultsArr': countResultsArr },
error: function(a, b, c) { alert(a+b+c); }
});
}).then(function(data) {
var resultsDiv = document.getElementById("search");
if(data == "NORECORD") {
resultsDiv.innerHTML = 'Updated failed. There was a problem with the database';
} else {
resultsDiv.innerHTML = 'Update was successful';
}
});
}
}).then(null, function() {
alert('Some unexpected error occured: ' + e);
});
});
This is how you do it in 2016 (ES7)
You can just use async/await.
$(document).ready(async() => {
try {
var data = await $.ajax({
url: 'getSearchSon.php',
type: 'POST',
async: true,
dataType: 'text'
/*data: { }, */
});
if (data == 'connection') {
alert("Problem with MySQL connection.");
} else {
var dataSent = data.split("|");
var search_criterias = JSON.parse(dataSent[0]);
var date_length = dataSent[1];
var divison_factor = dataSent[2];
var totalResultsArr = await Promise.all(
search_criterias.map(criteria => $.ajax({
url: "https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1"
+ "?q=" + criteria
+ "&cx=005894674626506192190:j1zrf-as6vg"
+ "&key=AIzaSyCanPMUPsyt3mXQd2GOhMZgD4l472jcDNM"
+ "&dateRestrict=" + date_length,
type: 'GET'
}))
);
totalResultsArr.sort();
var countResultsArr = JSON.stringify(totalResultsArr);
var data2 = await $.ajax({
url: 'updateSearchDb.php',
type: 'POST',
async: true,
dataType: 'text',
data: { 'countResultsArr': countResultsArr },
error: function(a, b, c) { alert(a+b+c); }
});
if(data2 == "NORECORD") {
resultsDiv.innerHTML = 'Updated failed. There was a problem with the database';
} else {
resultsDiv.innerHTML = 'Update was successful';
}
}
} catch(e) {
alert('Some unexpected error occured: ' + e);
}
});
UPDATE 2016
Unfortunately the async/await proposal didn't make it to the ES7 specification ultimately, so it is still non-standard.

You could reformat your getTotalResults function in the following matter, it would then search rather sequential, but it should also do the trick in returning your results with an extra callback.
'use strict';
function getTotalResults(searchParam, callback) {
var url = "https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1?q={param}&cx=005894674626506192190:j1zrf-as6vg&key=AIzaSyCanPMUPsyt3mXQd2GOhMZgD4l472jcDNM&dateRestrict=" + (new Date()).getTime(),
i = 0,
len = searchParam.length,
results = [],
req, nextRequest = function() {
console.log('received results for "' + searchParam[i] + '"');
if (++i < len) {
completeRequest(url.replace('{param}', searchParam[i]), results, nextRequest);
} else {
callback(results);
}
};
completeRequest(url.replace('{param}', searchParam[0]), results, nextRequest);
}
function completeRequest(url, resultArr, completedCallback) {
var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
req.open("GET", url, true);
req.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (this.readyState === 4 && this.status == 200) {
var totalResults = JSON.parse(this.responseText).queries.nextPage[0].totalResults;
resultArr.push(totalResults);
completedCallback();
}
};
req.send();
}
getTotalResults(['ford', 'volkswagen', 'citroen', 'renault', 'chrysler', 'dacia'], function(searchResults) {
console.log(searchResults.length + ' results found!', searchResults);
});
However, since you already use JQuery in your code, you could also construct all the requests, and then use the JQuery.when functionality, as explained in this question
Wait until all jQuery Ajax requests are done?

To get the callback execute after google calls are finished you could change:
var requestCounter = 0;
var helperFunc = function(arrayIndex)
{
return function()
{
if (arrXhr[arrayIndex].readyState === 4 && arrXhr[arrayIndex].status == 200)
{
requestCounter++;
totalResults = JSON.parse(arrXhr[arrayIndex].responseText).queries.nextPage[0].totalResults;
totalResultsArr.push(totalResults);
if (requestCounter === search_criterias.length) {
callbackFunction.apply(totalResultsArr);
}
}
}
}
then remove the setTimeout on searchCreteriaFuc.
Consider using promises and Promise.all to get all much cleaner :D

"Uncaught TypeError: undefined is not a function " when adding a value to an input field

the weird thing is that I get in my alert the proper values, but not in my
$('kl_naam').val();
var _naam="",
_voornaam="",
_straat="",
_post="",
_gem="",
_firma="",
data="";
function getFsmaGeg(str){
$.ajax({
url: 'classes/FsmaGeg.php?inscript='+str,
dataType: 'json',
error: function() {
//updateAfspraak(final);
},
type: 'post',
complete: function(data) {
data = $.parseJSON(data.responseText);
alert(data.straat);
if(data) {
_naam=data.naam ;
_voornaam=data.voornaam ;
_straat=data.straat ;
_post=data.post ;
_gem=data.gem ;
_firma=data.firma ;
//checkStep1();
}
}
});
$('#kl_voornaam').val()=_voornaam;
$('#kl_naam').val()=_naam;
$('#kl_straat').val()=_straat;
$('#kl_postcode').val()=_post;
$('#kl_gemeente').val()=_gem;
$('#kl_firma').val()=_firma;
alert(_naam+" "+_voornaam+" "+_straat);
}

You should parse the data like
data = JSON.parse(data);
To assign a value to an input do
$(input-selector).val(value);
In your case
function getFsmaGeg(str){
$.ajax({
url: 'classes/FsmaGeg.php?inscript=' + str,
dataType: 'json',
error: function () {
//updateAfspraak(final);
},
type: 'post',
success: function (data) {
data = $.parseJSON(data);
alert(data.straat);
if (data) {
_naam = data.naam;
_voornaam = data.voornaam;
_straat = data.straat;
_post = data.post;
_gem = data.gem;
_firma = data.firma;
$('#kl_voornaam').val(_voornaam);
$('#kl_naam').val(_naam);
$('#kl_straat').val(_straat);
$('#kl_postcode').val(_post);
$('#kl_gemeente').val(_gem);
$('#kl_firma').val(_firma);
}
}
});
alert(_naam + " " + _voornaam + " " + _straat);
}

You need to pass the value into the .val() method: $('#k1_voornaam').val(_voornaam).
You would set it with = if you were using just the DOM API: document.getElementById('k1_voornaam').value = _voornaam.