Programmatically clicking marker doesn't trigger AJAX

Problem/Motivation

The ajax call is fired when the marker is clicked. When programmatically clicking a marker to open the popup, it opened the popup but the AJAX was never fired. What I got was the popup opening with a loader spinning. jQuery(marker).click();

Proposed resolutions

Three possible solutions:

• (Didn't work for some reason) Simply remove the check if the popup is open before calling AJAX: if (this._popup._isOpen)Deferring to maintainer on the legitimacy of this.
• (Recommended)If checking that the popup is open is necessary, then add code to open the popup before checking if it's open during the click event in leaflet_views_ajax_popup.js:
  

        // Open the popup if it's not already opened
        if (!this._popup.isOpen) {
          this.openPopup();
        }

• Without modifying the module, you can fix this by opening the popup before clicking it: marker.openPopup(); jQuery(marker).click();