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Re: [Help-smalltalk] Iliad - updating elements


From: Nicolas Petton
Subject: Re: [Help-smalltalk] Iliad - updating elements
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:40:05 +0200

Le lundi 13 juillet 2009 à 21:13 +0200, Stefan Schmiedl a écrit :
> On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:07:52 +0200
> Nicolas Petton <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Hmm, yes. As far as I remember, numbers are needed to know in which
> > order actions need to be executed, in a form for instance.
> > 
> > But I don't think you need Session>>nextId, it is mostly used for
> > actions registration. You could use Iliad.Id instead.
> 
> Channeling my youngest kid:
> 
> butbutbut ... you *told* me I could use *either* of them ... sniff

Yes, you can. It's just that they are made for different purposes.
> 
> My reasoning was that after looking at both implementations, I decided
> to go with the shorter :-)
> 
> > 
> > Also, #nextId may not be the appropriate name, since it answers an
> > integer. If someone has a better name in mind...
> 
> if that's the purpose, why not call it #nextActionIndex?

Hmmm...not bad...let me think about it :)

> 
> > > Question #2:
> > > The solution above nicely logs the expected XHR requests in firebug.
> > > When I tried 
> > >             Iliad.evaluteAnchorAction( "a#' , id , '" );
> > > instead, no such requests were logged. Do I actually go and read
> > > the Javascript books on the shelf behind me or is there something
> > > else I'm not aware of?
> > 
> > Iliad.evaluateAnchorAction(anchor) expects a DOM element, not an id. 
> > So Iliad.evaluateAnchorAction(jQuery(#someId)) should work.
> 
> ... and it does, great!
> 
> This means I'll skip the general javascript and give the jQuery docs
> a thorough reading instead. Looking at the implementation of 
> evaluateAnchorAction led me to my erroneous belief.
> 
>     evaluateAnchorAction: function(anchor) {
>         var actionUrl = jQuery(anchor).attr('href');
>         this.evaluateAction(actionUrl);
>     },
> 
> hmmm.... final question: How would I do this without putting an anchor
> into my page? I guess I'd have to do some work to gather the expected
> session tokens and whatever else is required?

I would register an action in the session on the server side, and add
some js code to trigger the action every x seconds, using iliad.js
functions (evaluateAction).

Nico

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