better error handling and clean up

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/assets/js/home_page.js b/assets/js/home_page.js
index b04832c..059444c 100644
--- a/assets/js/home_page.js
+++ b/assets/js/home_page.js
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ function main(){
         }
     });
 
-
+    // TODO: move this function to a general helper class??
     // for auto-complete
     var substringMatcher = function(strs) {
         return function findMatches(q, cb) {
@@ -45,23 +45,29 @@ function main(){
           cb(matches);
         };
     };
-    // get array of all courses from controllers
+
+
+    // get array of all courses from controller
     $.ajax({
         url: '/auto-complete-courses',
         type: 'GET',
         success: function(data){
-            // console.log(JSON.parse(data));
-            var states = JSON.parse(data);
+            var jsonData = JSON.parse(data);
+            if (jsonData.success) {
+                var states = jsonData.data;
 
-            $('.typeahead').typeahead({
-              hint: true,
-              highlight: true,
-              minLength: 1
-            },
-            {
-              name: 'courseNames',
-              source: substringMatcher(states)
-            });
+                $('.typeahead').typeahead({
+                  hint: true,
+                  highlight: true,
+                  minLength: 1
+                },
+                {
+                  name: 'courseNames',
+                  source: substringMatcher(states)
+                });
+            } else { // console log the error mssg
+                console.log(jsonData.data);
+            }
         }
     });
 }