complicated ajax problem

[sunmaster]

I've been having this problem. I'll try my best to describe it as clear as possible.
here is my code snippet.

function AjaxAgent(){
var xhr = null;
var isReadyState = true;
//CODE SNIPPED
 
    this.postRequest = function(){
// CODE SNIPPED
        xhr = getHTTPObject();//get the HTTPObject
        if(xhr){
            xhr.onreadystatechange = function(){
                if(xhr.readyState == 4){
                    isReadyState = true;
                    if(xhr.status != 200 && xhr.status != 304){
                        alert("ERROR");
                    }
                }
            };
            xhr.open("POST", URL, true);
            xhr.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
            xhr.send(queryStr);
        }
    };
 
 
    this.getXMLElemSize = function(elemName,httpObj){
        if(httpObj==null)httpObj=xhr;
        //alert(isReadyState)
        if(!isReadyState){ 
            return myself.getXMLElemSize(elemName,httpObj);
        }else{
            if(XMLResp == null) XMLResp = xhr.responseXML;
            return XMLResp.getElementsByTagName(elemName).length;
        }
    };
}

I'm writing a somesort of a common ajax class. For e.g.

var aa = new AjaxAgent();
...
...
aa.postRequest();
alert(aa.getXMLElemSize("Name"));

the problem is the request to server is done asynchronously. and by the time the code excutes aa.getXMLElemSize("Name"), the server hasn't responded yet..

and that is why in the method getXMLElemSize i try to call the function recursively.. till XMLHttp object readystate is 4. But the problem is I'll hit "Stack Overflow at line:xx " error.

The funny thing is when I put an alert message in the method getXMLElemSize(say line 27 in the 1st code snippet), everything works out just fine.

I've been scratching my head since the last 2days just to solve this problem.

You guys have any idea? Any workaround for getting asynchronous response?

[acoder]

The code dealing with the response should be in the onreadystatechange function.