Learning ServiceNow

GlideAjax

The GlideAjax class allows a client-side script to make an AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) call to the server, execute a server-side script include, and even return a value. GlideAjax might be one of the least well understood client-side APIs in ServiceNow, in part because it has both a client-side, and a server-side component.

First, let's discuss the server-side component. A GlideAjax call from a client-side script will ultimately execute a script include (which as we learned in a previous chapter, is a server-side script), so let's create a script include for our GlideAjax script to talk to.

For our example, we're going to create a simple script include that'll return the value of a system property we specify, so we'll create ...