Clarification on $.get method used in Knockoutjs tutorial: Single Page Applications

[Karthik Murali]

Hi all,

I have recently started to learn Knockoutjs from the tutorial section in the main site. In the 3rd chapter for SPAs (for a electronic mail box), I came across this to get data via Ajax.

$.get('/mail', { folder: folder }, self.chosenFolderData);

Could someone please advise what the 3rd parameter is? per JQuery documentation (https://api.jquery.com/jquery.get/), I am not clear to conclude if this is the callback function.

Thanks!

[Michael Best]

Yes, it's the callback function. Since Knockout observables are functions, sometimes it's possible to provide the observable itself as a callback.

[Karthik Murali]

Thanks! I was looking at the var itself (chosenFolderData).

[Radek Wezyk]

Hi Karthik,
I'm going through the same Knockout tutorial and I'd like to ask you if you tired to reproduce the functionality from the 3rd chapter for electronic mail box on your local machine. Specifically I'm about the code from '/mail' path.
If you could share some ideas I'd be grateful.
Thanks.