[Seaside] How to have a ajax handler?
Johan Brichau
johan at inceptive.be
Wed Jul 9 20:31:52 UTC 2014
Hi Mariano,
I assume that the JS library takes an option parameter to specify the url of an ajax callback?
There are (at least) three different way to solve this:
1. use the url of an ajax callback created during Seaside rendering. This is how to do that:
urlForXHRAction: aBlock
"Answer an action URL that will evaluate aBlock when it is requested."
^ renderContext actionUrl withField: (renderContext callbacks store: (JSAjaxCallback on: aBlock))
urlForJsonCallback: aCallback
^ (self urlForXHRAction: [ self requestContext respond: [:response |
response
doNotCache;
contentType: WAMimeType applicationJson;
nextPutAll: (WAJsonCanvas builder render: aCallback)]])
I copied the above from an image where I use Seaside 3.1.x.
If you use 3.0.x, you need a different json callback. Let me know if you need that.
You can use it in your rendering method as follows:
url := self urlForJsonCallback: [:json | json array:[ ... ] ]
2. use a RestfulComponentFilter from Seaside-REST.
You can define a filter that captures (REST) urls send back to your application's session.
If you define a filter, you would pass the url that is captured by the filter to the JS library.
More info can be found in the Seaside book: http://book.seaside.st/book/advanced/restful/handler-filter
- use a separate (REST) api
In that case, you would pass a full url to another service (possibly served by the same Smalltalk image) to the JS lib.
Hope this helps!
Johan
On 09 Jul 2014, at 15:57, Mariano Martinez Peck <marianopeck at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Maybe the subject of the email is not the most accurate. What I need is the following. From seaside, I am calling a JS library using "html script: 'xxx' ". Now, that JS libs provides me a feature in which it can do an AJAX request to the "url/someAPI" and send some JSON (what I need).
>
> When I do an ajax request from within seaside I can easily attach a callback. However, in this case, I don't know how to do that. What I need is a callback associated to url/someAPI and I need to read the JSON sent in that ajax request.
>
> Any idea how can I do this?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
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