I've been trying to avoid adding too many new parameters (like
updateComponents) all over the place before I felt like I had found a good
way to do this without code duplication.
It's probably fair that I at least add them to form/form button based
components though.
As for Forms, you could very easily use @EventListener, targeting a form +
event of "onsubmit" to get the same result. (Use ResponseBuilder to update
whatever components you want, possibly event the whole form so you see the
server side rendered validators.)
Although, if all you care about is the UI mechanism employed to decorate
form fields then you might find doing it on the client side to be more
efficient.
Perhaps I should allow an easier to use(understand?) method of decorating
form fields on the client side similar to (if not the same? will have to
think about this) the existing ValidationDelegate?
If you wanted to re-produce the "look" the server gives you could fairly
easily take the javascript reference found here -
http://tapestry.apache.org/tapestry4.1/javascript/form-validation.html - and
handle the UI part anyway you like.
If you have a Border component or similar the perfect thing to do might be
to define a javascript block like so to override the default Tapestry client
side decorating logic (not validation logic, you have to override a
different function for that):
<script type="text/javascript">
tapestry.form.validation.handleMissingField=function(field, profile) {
/// Do whatever you want, the default just applies a CSS class name to
the field node. You could just as easily wrap the field with a span or font
element and give it red **'s if you like
}
</script>
Can you guys log some of the things you've mentioned into JIRA so that I
don't forget? I probably won't be able to spend enough time on them (design
wise) until this weekend to implement it correctly, but may forget if no
JIRA issue has been created.
On 8/2/06, Josh Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yeah I was sort of wondering the same thing, and in particular, how do
I get validation messages to render via ajax -- that is, i wat the
form to go through the normal validation routine and I dont want to
enable client side validation. I actually kind of like the red stars
and custom decorators the validation classes afford you...
i remember in tacos there was an example of employing the validators
(ie, led red asterisks appeared via ajax), is this possible in
tapestry 4.1 without some weird kludge?
I read in the docs that the default is to disable validation when
using submitForm -- since most of the use cases would make incurring
the validation lifecycle cumbersome to the user. Thats the default,
which implies it can be toggled... can it, and if so, how? ;-)
Thanks,
Josh
On 8/2/06, Denis Souza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, I was looking at the new Tapestry 4.1 ajax features.
> EventListener/ResponseBuilder are really nice! Besides the new
annotations I
> noticed some components (such as DirectLink) already have the Tacos ajax
> functionality built in which allows you to update a certain part of the
page
> ("updateComponents" parameter), however I didn't find the same
functionality
> for the forms and submit buttons.
>
>
>
> I tried using an EventListener/ResponseBuilder combination (listening
for
> onClick and onSubmit) to try and get the same result but whenever I
click on
> a submit button the form is submitted the traditional way, the entire
page
> is reloaded. I'm guessing this could be solved by replacing the submit
> buttons with regular links and having the form submitted on the
> EventListener, but it just doesn't feel right not to use submit buttons
> where they are needed.
>
>
>
> Is there a new way to do this (maybe using the annotations) or is the
ajax
> form submit functionality just not implemented yet?
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Denis Souza
>
>
>
>
>
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