Ability to Alter the Response of the Ajax Request Before Appending it to the DOM

[gdovicak]

I have a use case where it would be beneficial to alter the response from the ajax request before inserting it into the dom. I have a list of collapsed elements that contain images and I do not want the images to be requested until the element is expanded but the html that is returned from the server contains standard img tags with src attributes set.

[irregular-at]

Hi!

I think this is a great idea!
We also have a situation where we would like to alter the response before appending it to the DOM.

Would be awesome if this feature makes it in a future release.

[jvivs]

This is an old ticket, but this functionality is now available via pjax:beforeReplace.

[mislav]

This functionality is only partly possible with pjax:beforeReplace. During that event, the jQuery collection of the contents that's to be inserted in the DOM is available in the event handler, but the only way to edit that collection would be to mutate the jQuery object. jQuery doesn't provide methods to easily mutate the collection because it doesn't want you to do that.

We should definitely create better means of editing contents before it's inserted onto the page.