$.ajax().fail() is called even if i get a status 200 response

[anonymous]

hello there guys, i'm setting up an ajax request and get a status 200 response. .done() is not even called and instead .fail() is called. my code looks like this:

jQuery.ajax({
	url : url,
	type : customRequest,
	dataType : 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
	data: requestArray,
	processData : true,
	beforeSend : function(req) {
		req.setRequestHeader('Authorization', 'someauthdataheader');
		req.setRequestHeader('User-Agent','someuseragentheader');
		req.setRequestHeader('Accept', 'someaccept header');
	}
}).done(function(success, status, xhr) {
	console.log(xhr);
	console.log("i'm in done");
}).fail(function(xhr, error, status) {
	console.log(xhr);
	console.log("i'm in fail");
});

This is a cross domain request, in Google Chrome (Version 21.0.1180.75 m) with " --allow-cross-origin-auth-prompt --disable-web-security" as parameters to get cross domain working.

xhr.responseText gives me the exact json i was awaiting for a successfull request and xhr.status is 200.

Hope this helps.

[dmethvin]

A request can fail if the JSON is not valid, there is more to a failure than just a 200 response. What does your JSON response look like?

[anonymous]

console.log(xhr);

responseText: "{"status":{"statusCode":"0000","statusMessage":"Success."}}"

so my JSON response is the above string without the quotation marks that are the outermost.

[anonymous]

this bug report can be closed mixed up dataType and contentType. worked now with the change to contentType.

thx to shoke on IRC to point that out to me.