[Seaside] AJAX callback:value: via POST message

[Gabriel Cotelli]

You can do

ajax type: 'POST'

and it will use POST insted of GET.

On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 10:07 AM, Esteban A. Maringolo <emaringolo at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm currently doing a an AJAX call with #callback:value: where the value
> is a stringified JSON I built at client side and which on completion
> returns a script file. But the value payload is passed encoded in the
> URI, and this has a size limit.
>
> Is there a way to do a callback:value: using POST instead of GET?
>
> The call is something like this:
>
> ( html jQuery id: self tableId )
>   on: 'paste'
>   selector: nil
>   data: ( ( html jQuery ajax )
>     callback: [ :json | self pasteMatrix: ( WAJsonParser parse: json ) ]
>       value: ( JSStream on: 'JSON.stringify(arguments[0])' );
>     onComplete: ( html jQuery ajax
>       script: [ :s | self scriptValidatedReloadOn: s ] ) ) asFunction.
>   call: (JSStream on: 'pasteHandler' )
>
>
> And I'd like to have a POST based function that sends the JSON string in
> it's `data` payload instead.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Appendix A:
>
> `pasteHandler` is a custom function that detects if the contents being
> pasted into a text input are not a single value but instead are values
> copied from an Excel file, in tab separated format, and if so overrides
> the event propagation, creates a matrix (array of arrays), and calls the
> function passed to the `data:` parameter in the event handler.
>
> Because the inputs are presented as separate <input> tags within a
> table, that's the only way I found to preserve the convenience of having
> separate inputs, but with the behavior of a single "grid" for pasting
> (and copying) data.
>
>
> function pasteHandler(event){
>   var clipboardData, pastedData;
>   var e = event.originalEvent;
>   var matrix;
>
>   clipboardData = e.clipboardData || window.clipboardData;
>   if (!clipboardData) return false;
>
>   pastedData = clipboardData.getData("Text");
>   matrix = tabMatrix(pastedData);
>   if (isMatrix(matrix)) {
>     // Stop data actually being pasted
>     var point = pastePoint(e.target);
>     var matrixHandler = event.data;
>     if (matrixHandler) {
>       e.stopPropagation();
>       e.preventDefault();
>       matrixHandler({"matrix": matrix, "point": point});
>     }
>   }
> }
>
>
> --
> Esteban A. Maringolo
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