Sorry about the confusion and I appreciate your feedback .
I would like to invoke the external URL as part of the onSubmit event. So
before the form is submitted . So was looking for a way using AJAX and
JavaScript to do it.
> On Jul 22, 2014, at 5:18 PM, Shahid <sshaikh1...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Sorry about the confusion and I appreciate your feedback .
>
> I would like to invoke the external URL as part of the onSubmit event. So
> before the form is submitted . So was looking for a way using AJAX and
> JavaScript to do it
>
> Shahid Shaikh
>
>> On Jul 22, 2014, at 5:12 PM, "Thiago H de Paula Figueiredo [via Apache
>> Tapestry Mailing List Archives]" <ml-node+s1045711n5727688...@n5.nabble.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 13:38:48 -0300, Shahid Shaikh
>> <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>> > Fellow Tapestry Users,
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> >
>> > I have a form that when submitted needs to
>> > make a call to an external service (calling a URL that will return a
>> > value of type string) which i will then add to the form data and do the
>> > actual submit.
>> > What is the best way to handle this in Tapestry?
>>
>> In the same way you'd do without Tapestry: using some JavaScript to make
>> the call to the external service, then changing some field values to
>> reflect the result, them programatically submitting the form.
>>
>> > So for e.g
>> >
>> > @Log
>> > Object onSubmitFromTestForm() {
>> >
>> > //need to make some form of AJAX or javascript call here to the URL
>> > provided
>> > //that will return a value
>>
>> I'm confused: do you want to call the external service before the form
>> submission, through AJAX and JavaScript or after (onSubmit is after the
>> form submission, looking at the HTML side, as it's processing the form
>> submission), server-side. If after (server-side), just use something like
>> Apache HttpClient to do the request. This isn't affected by being done in
>> a Tapestry page or component class at all.
>>
>> > String key = $.ajax... //not sure how to call the URL in tapestry that
>> > will get me the value
>>
>> This is just about jQuery, not being related to Tapestry at all.
>>
>> --
>> Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo
>> Tapestry, Java and Hibernate consultant and developer
>> http://machina.com.br
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