I've been playing with InlineEditBox and I have a few questions.
First, my use case: I have a project which has a set of notes. Both
project and note are hibernate objects. You can add as many notes as
you want to a project. It's nice to be able to edit the note text
inline.
So I list the notes:
<parameter name="project" required="true"/>
<property name="note"/>
<component id="forEachNote" type="For">
<binding name="source" value="ognl:project.notes"/>
<binding name="value" value="ognl:note"/>
</component>
and I make the note text editable:
<component id="noteText" type="InlineEditBox">
<binding name="value" value="ognl:note.text"/>
</component>
So this works fine, except that I need a chance to update the object
back to the db. I've noticed that without doing anything more,
InlineEditbox submits a form asynchronously when I hit save.
GET /timesheets/app?
component=projectNotes.noteText&page=ProjectDetails&service=direct&sessi
on=T¬eText=Project%20still%20on-going%20as%20per%
20Fred.&dojo.preventCache=1184792811048 HTTP/1.1
How do I get a hook on that? What is generating the response? How can
I get the id of my note into that form? - placing the InlineEditBox
within a form component results only in a nested form, so using a
hidden field doesn't accomplish anything.
I can hook up an eventlistener to the onSave event and then I'm
notified, but now we have two request responses, which seems
unnecessary. Plus I need to do a bunch more infrastructure work to
get at the note text and id, since I can't just use the persist
annotation with my hibernate objects. Maybe I will need to do that
work anyway...
I guess my question really boils down to: what is the intended way to
use InlineEditBox? With the eventlistener annotation? With a hook
onto that first request? Some other way I'm not seeing? All I need is
the id of the note and the note text to make my save.
Thanks,
J
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