I'd recommend ExtJS over Dojo. We did an app with it a few months ago after a recommendation here and it rocked. It's faster than Dojo which was a big plus. Version 2 now out. http://extjs.com/ To serve it data use Catalyst::View::JSON. It's easier than you might think.
We could do a simple Advent day on this, although someone already volunteered YUI (which ExtJS spawned off) so maybe not necessary? Alternatively we could do a simple app that uses multiple .pl configuration files and demonstrates batch program access to DBIC data objects? (Been meaning to release this as a Cat demo app so it would be a good motivator for us to get on with it.) Regards, Peter Dragonstaff Limited http://www.dragonstaff.com Business IT Consultancy -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Rockway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 November 2007 18:51 To: The elegant MVC web framework Subject: Re: [Catalyst] HTML::Dojo On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 10:44 -0800, Will Smith wrote: > Please show me a simple example such as auto complete or chained > select fields. That's too much work. How about googling "dojo autocomplete", and reading an article like this: http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2006/04/27/building-ajax-with-dojo-and-jso n.html To make that work with Catalyst, just replace the java: public String toJSONString() throws JSONException { JSONObject jsonObj = new JSONObject(); jsonObj.put("bookId", new Integer(this.bookId)); jsonObj.put("title", this.title); jsonObj.put("isbn", this.isbn); jsonObj.put("author", this.author); return jsonObj.toString(); } With Perl: sub search_for_book :Local { my ($self, $c, $search_term) = @_; my @results = $c->model('Books')->search_for_completion_of($search_term); $c->stash->{json} = { results => [EMAIL PROTECTED] }; $c->detach($c->view('JSON')); # or whatever } Catalyst rarely cares what you use for javascript. You send the javascript code data, the javascript does its thing, and perhaps the javascript requests some more data. The hard part is javascript, so that's what you need to learn first. Regards, Jonathan Rockway _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/ _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
