Hugo,
That's a great example. I think this belongs on the Wiki!
Is the JSON stuff built into Tapestry, or do I need a third party library
for that?
-james
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Hugo Palma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Here's how i'm doing this now:
>
> On the source select i'm using the OnEvent mixin to fire the change event:
>
> <select t:id="operator" t:type="select" t:mixins="commons/onEvent"
> t:event="change" t:onCompleteCallback="onCompleteOperatorChange" .../>
>
> The event listener method is then responsible for querying the database for
> the value to be set in the destination select:
>
> @OnEvent(component = "operator", value = "change")
> public JSONArray onChangeOperatorEvent(String value) {
> JSONArray jsonArray = new JSONArray();
>
> for (Plaza plaza : getDestinationSelectValues(value)) {
> JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject();
> jsonObject.put("value", plaza.getId());
> jsonObject.put("label", plaza.getDescription());
>
> jsonArray.put(jsonObject);
> }
>
> return jsonArray;
> }
>
> Finally, the onCompleteOperatorChange javascript function has to parse the
> return JSON and update the select input options:
>
> function onCompleteOperatorChange(response) {
> selectElement = $("entryPlaza");
> responseJSON = response.evalJSON();
>
> while (selectElement .options.length > 0) {
> selectElement .options[0] = null;
> }
>
> for (index = 0; index < responseJSON .length; index++) {
> selectElement.options[index] = new Option(responseJSON
> [index].label, responseJSON [index].value);
> }
>
> Tapestry.ElementEffect.highlight($("entryPlaza"));
> }
>
> It would make things a little easier if the selects weren't inside a form
> because then my event listener method could return the component instance
> itself and then on the client i would just have to replace the current
> element with the new rendered one.
>
> On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Hugo Palma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > I'm already using the OnEvent component. Still, because the model of the
> > select list i want to update is calculated server-side i need to pass it
> in
> > json to the client, parse it again in javascript and then update the
> select
> > input. This does work but i feel that there should be a simpler way of
> doing
> > this, maybe using zones.
> >
> > thermus wrote:
> >
> > I'm a Tapestry novice, but you may want to have a look at
> http://code.google.com/p/tapestry5-components/ t5components . It allows
> you
> > to add a mixin to components to respond to an OnChange event with AJAX
> (see: http://87.193.218.134:8080/t5c-demo/oneventpage this and
> http://87.193.218.134:8080/t5components/t5c-commons/ref/org/apache/tapestry/commons/mixins/OnEvent.html
> > this for details). You could then change the data model for the other
> > select component with a tiny bit of JavaScript in the onCompleteCallback
> > function.
> >
> > I'm curious how a Tapestry expert would handle it.
> >
> >
> > HugoPalma wrote:
> >
> >
> > I have a very usual use where in a form i have two selects, and when the
> > user selects a value on one the values on the second should be filtered
> > accordingly.
> > As the Select component doesn't support ajax out-of.the-box i see myself
> > forced to implement a lot of plumbing and javascript stuff.
> >
> > Still, i feel that this kind of use case should be much easier to
> > implement.
> > Maybe i'm missing something.
> > I'd like to hear some ideas about how u would handle this.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
--
James A. Hillyerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
