Could you get the same effect by preventing user input during your server request, either by finding all of the controls/links and disabling them or overlaying something that receives and swallows all events? At least that way, you're not locking up the browser completely. Is there some other functional requirement that makes synchronous requests a requirement?
-Brian On Jul 21, 12:00 pm, mk <[email protected]> wrote: > I understand that asynchronous is the way to go and sometimes we > change UI design just to support async. But atleast in our project, > there are functional requirements where sync is the only solution. > (BTW: sync is not as bad. I understand that javascript in browser is > single threaded but it's used by a single user to do a single task. > And if sync response is required to meet functional need than we got > to do sync. It does not effect scalability of whole app ) > > Anyway any body used any hack to support sync. > (Is JSNI the only way to go?) > > On Jul 21, 9:10 am, Nathan Wells <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > There is only one case I know of where synchronous should be used: > > when you want to do a server call and get a response when the user is > > leaving the page. If you don't use synchronous here, you will fail to > > get the response from whatever asynchronous call you made when the > > page exits. > > > On Jul 21, 8:14 am, Dimitrijeviæ Ivan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > It is strongly recommended to avoid using AJAX on synchronous way! > > > Remember that A in AJAX is for Asynchronous. So you should consider > > > and use this as a feature not as a problem. > > > > Using AJAX on Synchronous way is a very common anti pattern in AJAX > > > programming. > > > > On Jul 20, 9:09 pm, Prakash <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Its not possible with GWT. > > > > > refer below > > > > link.http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/doc/latest/FAQ_Server.html > > > > > Regards, > > > > Prakash M. > > > > > On Jul 20, 10:06 am, mk <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > How to make an GWT AJAX call Sync (instead of async) > > > > > > billion years back we used to use a flag as below. how to do it from > > > > > GWT. > > > > > > AJAX.open("GET", url, false); > > > > > > It's just that for a particular requirement we have to have call > > > > > sync- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
