[Seaside] Ajax Posting with JQuery: An example?

[Larry White]

That was just the help I needed. Thanks!

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Robert Sirois <watchlala at hotmail.com> wrote:
> The child component should have an ajax callback, then. It doesn't need to
> be in a form necessarily.
> It could look something like this:
> html textInput
>     callback: [:v | self doSomethingWithValue: v ];
>     onChange:/onBlur:/onEnter: (html jQuery ajax serializeThis).
> That would serialize it, but I imagine you want it to do something, so you
> could further modify it this way:
> html textInput
>     callback: [ ... ];
>     onEnter: (html jQuery ajax serializeThis onSuccess: (html jQuery ajax
> script: [:s | s add: (self doSomethingOn: s) ].
> RS
>> Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 20:43:40 -0400
>> From: ljw1001 at gmail.com
>> To: seaside at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>> Subject: [Seaside] Ajax Posting with JQuery: An example?
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I need to make an Ajax post using JQuery, with Seaside for my server.
>> I've found a number of Seaside JQuery examples (no posts though) and
>> lots of JQuery post examples (no seaside). In the JQuery examples you
>> specify the URL you're posting to, but that would be wrong in Seaside.
>>
>> Here's the use case. I have a large table of data. Each cell contains
>> an anchor and clicking on the anchor converts the cell to a TextInput
>> field. Now I need to submit that field's value, in an Ajaxy way, so I
>> only refresh the single cell of the table.
>>
>> A simplified version of the current code looks like this:
>>
>> renderContentOn: html
>> | child |
>> child := myTextEditor
>> valueBlock: [ object value ]
>> callback: [ :value | object setValue: value ]
>>
>> html anchor
>> onClick: ((html jQuery this) load html: [ :r | r render: child ]);
>> with: ( object value).
>>
>> I'm assuming the solution involves modifying the callback in my
>> 'child' to post using JQuery. if anyone could explain in a bit more
>> detail what the callback and the server code should look like it would
>> be a big help.
>>
>> PS: It would also make a good addition to Dynamic Web Development with
>> Seaside's draft JQuery chapter so you'd probably be helping a lot of
>> people ;)
>>
>> Thanks much.
>>
>> Larry
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