[Seaside] How to return input from in external (non-seaside) form to a WAComponent?

Tue Nov 7 08:56:42 UTC 2006

I'm not sure I understand well...

but it seems you're mixing things...

If it's simple form, it's probably better and simpler to do them 
directly in seaside (or Magritte). Then instead of asking your users to 
build a form with Nvu, you make a seaside component that generates the 
appropriate form from descriptions (and Magritte already provide 
something like that - descriptions are described themselves).
I suggest you to do the tutorial (exercices) to get used to Magritte and 
especially the part 5 (http://www.lukas-renggli.ch/smalltalk/magritte)

But if you have already a site in another language than seaside and you 
want to use existing forms, it's possible. I did it once but it's not 
nice as I need to to adapt the non-seaside-page to send the session 
variables (_s and _k) back in the same time as the form variables. Then 
to get all the data you want in seaside, you use  
... (aRenderer context request) at: 'yourFormVar' ifAbsent: [] 

hope this helps

Cédrick

Chuck Kasmire a écrit :
> Thanks. Its a bit of a confusing idea. But this is
> what I am trying to do:
>
> I have an application that manages an inventory. It
> allows me to open an editor where I can enter a
> description for an item along with other information.
>
> The users of this application would like to be able to
> have a variety of editors based on the type of item it
> is. For example: if the item is a truck then it would
> have fields appropriate for a truck (engine size, type
> of fuel, turbo, whatever). If it is a pallet of bricks
> then my 'generic' editor will do just fine.
>
> If I can get someone else to create forms to capture
> the data as they want( in Nvu, etc), then I just have
> to collect that data when the form is submitted and
> enter it into my description. 
>
> I actually don't want to leave the site. I just
> couldn't see how i could 'insert' the form (in html)
> inside of a Seaside component. That would certainly be
> preferable.
>
> Does IFrame support this? I am not sure what the
> function of IFrame is.
>
> -Chuck
>
> --- Jason Johnson <jbjohns at libsource.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> I'm confused.  If you leave the site, why do you
>> expect them to ever
>> come back?  Does the site you forward to send them
>> back somehow?  What
>> you might try to get what you want is an IFrame or
>> something, so that
>> you aren't leaving your application.
>>
>> Chuck Kasmire wrote:
>>     
>>> I am trying to direct input to a form that is
>>>       
>> outside
>>     
>>> of seaside and then bring that form input back
>>>       
>> into
>>     
>>> the component that 'called' it. In my attempts at
>>> hacking this I have come up with:
>>>
>>> someActionMethod
>>>   result := self session redirectTo: 'http://     
>>>       
>>  
>>     
>>> localhost:8080/C:/formtest.html').
>>> "this works"
>>>
>>> self inform: 'You entered: ', result contents.
>>> "this does not work"
>>>
>>> This in fact does bring up my form in the browser.
>>>       
>> But
>>     
>>> the 'inform:' part is never seen.
>>>
>>> I defined a subclass of WAEntryPoint and specified
>>>       
>> its
>>     
>>> path as: 'FormInput'
>>>  
>>> In the form I defined its action as:  
>>> action="http://localhost:8080/seaside/FormInput"
>>> method="get"
>>>
>>> In the WAEntryPoint subclass I defined:
>>>
>>> handleRequest: aRequest
>>>
>>> 	| response s |
>>> 	s := WriteStream on: String new.
>>> 	aRequest fields associationsDo: [:assoc | s
>>> nextPutAll: '#', assoc key, '=', assoc value; cr
>>>       
>> ].
>>     
>>> 	response := WAResponse document: s contents
>>>       
>> mimeType:
>>     
>>> 'text/plain'.
>>> 	^response
>>>
>>> 'response' is seen in my Browser. What seems to be
>>> missing is some sort of linkage between the
>>>       
>> session
>>     
>>> and the entry point. Such that the Response
>>>       
>> created in
>>     
>>> the entry point is directed back as an 'answer' to
>>>       
>> the
>>     
>>> origional call to the form.
>>>
>>> Am I on the right track? Any suggestions?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Chuck
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  
>>>
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