Does anyone have an idea on this? Is my presentation of the issue missing
clarity/details ?
Regards,
Jeremie
2011/12/6 Jérémie Charlet <charlet.jere...@gmail.com>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am facing an issue while using ajaxFormLoop:
>
> On my page, I fill a form that includes among others a list of
> phoneNumbers to be set in an ajaxFormLoop. Once I submit the form, it
> generates a PDF (containing data from my form) and makes the user download
> it in his web browser. The user is not redirected to another page, the page
> is simply reloaded so that the user can fill once again the form and
> generate a new PDF.
>
> Problem is that once the page is reloaded (and my PDF file asked to be
> download), I cannot use the ajaxFormLoop anymore: if I click on addRow,
> nothing happens on the GUI. However if I reload manually the page, the
> ajaxFormLoop works back again and displays moreothers as many rows as I
> clicked previously on the addRow button. It seems that once I click on
> addRow, requests are indeed done server side, but the javaScript doesn't
> work anymore and and does not refresh the GUI and show the added rows.
>
> The problem might occur because in the function handling the submit event,
> I return a PDFStreamResponse instead of the tapestry page but I don't see
> how to solve it.. Return the PDFStreamResponse and somehow reload
> immediately after the page, but how? Is there a better way to make the user
> download the generated PDF?
>
>
> the ajaxFormLoop from the tml
>
> <div t:type="ajaxformloop" t:id="phoneNumberLoop" t:value="phoneNumberRow"
> t:source="phoneNumberList" t:encoder="phoneNumberRowEncoder">
> <t:unless t:test="phoneNumberRow.toDelete">
> <t:submitnotifier>
> <t:layout.twocolumn padding="0" rightColumnWidth="20">
> <p:leftColumn>
> <p>
> <t:label for="phoneNumber">
> ${sharedcatalog:phoneNumber}
> </t:label>
> <t:textfield t:id="phoneNumber" t:value="phoneNumber"
> t:validate="required" />
> </p>
> </p:leftColumn>
> <p:rightColumn>
> <p>
> <t:removerowlink>
> ${sharedcatalog:deletephoneNumber}
> </t:removerowlink>
> </p>
> </p:rightColumn>
> </t:layout.twocolumn>
> </t:submitnotifier>
> </t:unless>
> <p:addRow>
> <div style="clear: both;">
> <p>
> <t:addrowlink>
> ${sharedcatalog:addphoneNumber}
> </t:addrowlink>
> </p>
> </div>
> </p:addRow>
> </div>
>
>
> the submit event handled in the java class
>
> @OnEvent(component = "myForm", value = EventConstants.SUBMIT)
> public Object generatePDF() {
>
> InputStream pdfStream = null;
> try {
> pdfStream = pdfGeneratorService.generateMandatePDF();
> } catch (PDFGeneratorServiceException e) {
> e.printStackTrace();
> }
>
> // return the PDF as a PDFStreamResponse
> return new PDFStreamResponse(pdfStream, "Addresses_" +
> System.currentTimeMillis() + ".pdf");
> }
>
>
> Thanks in advance for the help :),
> Jérémie
>
