Exploring native JS AJAX calls is an excellent suggestion.
I am new to AJAX calls and haven't explored possibilities other than the
Web2py call.
As you rightly guessed I am having trouble debugging the calls. Incorrectly
formed AJAX W2P calls fail silently - they don't usually throw an error
message which leaves me guessing it's something in the W2P JavaScript
include file.
Sounds like I am moving towards debugging the actual function call itself
to get my solution. Open source is wonderful!
-Rob
On Sat, Aug 1, 2020, 11:55 AM AGRogers <rogers...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a reason you can't use the standard js or jquery ajax calls? Then
> you can build your own data structures easily and see exactly what is going
> where. I found things easier to debug that way.
>
> The only time I use the web2py one is when I want to send a web2py form
> back to the controller. It handles that elegantly.
>
> But you are not using a web2py form I don't think.
>
>
>
> On Sat, 1 Aug 2020, 11:33 pm Rob Paire, <robert.pa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Clemens
>> Appreciate your comments. Both calls have the same target - it's the
>> first tag in the HTML.
>>
>> The property of contenteditable has been applied to the TD so it is no
>> longer static, but in fact the user can edit it.
>>
>> In the finished product there will be a large HTML table or grid that the
>> user can edit and the goal is to use an AJAX call to send the data back to
>> the server one cell at a time, or maybe I will loop the table object once
>> looking for changes. The table will be fixed length of around 150 rows.
>>
>> I know all this can be done with the form generator in Web2py but I
>> inherited the HTML and it looks good, only problem is how to save the input
>> data.
>>
>> My backup plan is to put a hidden form with one input and use that form
>> variable as a proxy to make the AJAX call. This kind of hacky solution goes
>> against the grain and it's seems like there has to be a better way.
>>
>> -Rob
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 1, 2020, 4:50 AM Clemens <clemens.odend...@claret-clover.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> currently I'm in hurry. Thus, only a quick help by hint:
>>>
>>> In your second, non-working example, I can't find a the target which is
>>> addressed by your call (first example from documentation it's <div
>>> id="target"></div>)
>>>
>>> And why do you want a ajax action for the <td>, because it's static.
>>> What do you want to archive by this? Maybe there is an easier way for that.
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> Clemens
>>>
>>>
>>> On Saturday, August 1, 2020 at 12:34:45 AM UTC+2, Rob Paire wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>> I am trying to send data entered into the contenteditable feature of a
>>>> row object using a Web2py AJAX call, and it's not working.
>>>>
>>>> The problem is illustrated below in a sample View file with two Ajax
>>>> calls. The first call, from the manual, uses an input form variable and it
>>>> works fine. In second call I tried passing the Name of the editable content
>>>> object to the AJAX call, but it does not work. In short, I want to send
>>>> document.getElementById('q').innerHTML as the data parameter of the ajax
>>>> function - how is this done? I tried various combinations of dict strings
>>>> {'key':'value'} as the data parameter but nothing seemed to work.
>>>>
>>>> Note: the controller data function looks for both r and q request.vars
>>>>
>>>> {{extend 'layout.html'}}
>>>> <div id="target"></div>
>>>> <p>Ajax call example from the manual works perfectly.. the data appears
>>>> in the target Above.</p>
>>>> <form>
>>>> <INPUT type="text" id="r" name = "r" value="web4py"/>
>>>> <INPUT type="button" value="submit"
>>>> onclick="ajax('{{=URL('data')}}',['r'],'target');"/>
>>>> </form>
>>>> <hr>
>>>>
>>>> <table border="1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"
>>>> align="center">
>>>> <TR>
>>>> <td COLSPAN="1" align="right" BGCOLOR="#EAACE1"> <b>
>>>>
>>>> This AJAX call does not work:</b> </td> <td
>>>> onfocusout="ajax('{{=URL('data')}}',['q'],'target');"
>>>> contenteditable="true" id="q" name="q" COLSPAN="1" > ajaxdata </td>
>>>>
>>>> <td COLSPAN="1"> how do I pass the contenteditable data M to the AJAX
>>>> function? </td>
>>>> </tr>
>>>> </table>
>>>>
>>>> Thank you kindly
>>>> -Rob
>>>>
>>>>
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