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I am trying to call an apex method from my visualforce page using javascript method.

<apex:page docType="html-5.0" showHeader="false" expires="" sidebar="false" title="Connection" controller="ConnectionController">
    <apex:includeScript value="/soap/ajax/21.0/connection.js"/>
    <apex:includeScript value="/soap/ajax/21.0/apex.js"/>
    <script type="text/javascript">
    function closeWindow() {
        setTimeout(function() {
            window.close();
            CallApexMethod();
       }, 10000);
    }
    window.onload = closeWindow();
    </script>
    <apex:form id="callApexMethod">
        <apex:actionFunction name="CallApexMethod" action="{!retrieveMethod}" />
    </apex:form>
</apex:page>

And my controller is:

public class ConnectionController {
    public PageReference retrieveMethod() {
          System.debug('Inside Method');
          // some logic
          return null;
    }
}

It is not even printing System.debug in my logs.
Not sure If I am missing something.
I know there is a way to do it with javascript remoting as well but its a very small part and can be done by
So I was trying to do that.

Best Answer

This is because you first close the window and then call the methods. Try to change there order

CallApexMethod();
window.close();

or it will be better if you call window.close(); from oncomplete of your action function.

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