I'll let you know. Having a good ExtJS + LIft story would be very handy when I talk to the Grails fans in the office.
-Josh On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:08 PM, David Pollak <feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com > wrote: > > > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Josh Suereth <joshua.suer...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Is there a way for me to *know* the potential stateful snippets I could >> call using the "lift_page" javascript variable? > > > Actually, you're not calling stateful snippets, you're calling a Json > handler. > > Please take a look at http://demo.liftweb.net/json_more > > This is an example of sending data from the UI via JavaScript calls and > getting a callback when the server has processed the results. > > Does this help? > > > >> Most of my views are completely in JavaScript, and my server calls can >> take in any kind of data (JSON or raw parameters) and return JSON. IF you >> can point me at "the right way" to do this, I'll set up a demo sight showing >> the style of web development we do at work. >> >> -Josh >> >> >> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:59 AM, David Pollak < >> feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 6:02 AM, Josh Suereth >>> <joshua.suer...@gmail.com>wrote: >>> >>>> A question I've had is how hard would it be to support a ExtJS based >>>> application (i.e. the server side only needs to be a remote JSON >>>> framework). I assume this would be just-as-difficult as providing a >>>> REST-based API to your data. We use ExtJS extensively at work, and there >>>> are some pors/cons to having 90% of your UI code run inside the browser. >>>> In >>>> our situation, the server-side controllers are doing very little (our >>>> business tier is pretty robust and includes portions outside the scope of >>>> any web framework). Anyway, in my prototyping with lift, it was a very >>>> nice >>>> AJAXy framework, but I could never determine how to unify the "ExtJS wants >>>> me to program like X and Lift wants me to program like Y" bridge. Not that >>>> one excludes the other, but I was never sure if I was in the "sweet" spot. >>>> >>>> From what I could tell, 90% application would have lived in a bunch of >>>> rewrite rules. Can anyone fill me in on what I might have missed? >>> >>> >>> Josh, >>> >>> It's actually brain-damaged simple to do JSON request handlers in Lift. >>> See http://demo.liftweb.net/json >>> >>> You set up patterns to handle the incoming JSON requests. Combining this >>> with extractors makes things type-safe, secure, and very concise. >>> >>> If you need more, please let me know. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> David >>> >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -Josh >>>> >>>> On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:55 PM, David Pollak < >>>> feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> You can mix ExtJS into the project without any work at all. If you >>>>> want to use ExtJS exclusively, then you'll need to do the adapter thing so >>>>> Lift knows how to communicate with the server (Ajax, Comet, etc.) >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Charles F. Munat <c...@munat.com>wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Wait. Is that right, guys? Does the LGC need JQuery or YUI? >>>>>> >>>>>> If not, then you only need to use an adapter and one of those if you >>>>>> are >>>>>> going to use the built-in Lift Js helper methods. So I guess it's >>>>>> possible to use ExtJs 3.0 without any adapter if you're not going to >>>>>> use >>>>>> the helper methods. >>>>>> >>>>>> Sorry if I'm just confusing the issue. I am using ExtJs on a Lift site >>>>>> with no problems (other than that ExtJs is a PITA). >>>>>> >>>>>> Chas. >>>>>> >>>>>> Charles F. Munat wrote: >>>>>> > You'll need to use an adapter for either JQuery or YUI because the >>>>>> Lift >>>>>> > garbage collector depends on that. >>>>>> > >>>>>> > There are no Lift JS functions specific to ExtJs, but as you'll be >>>>>> using >>>>>> > either JQuery or YUI for the GC, you can use Lift's JQuery/YUI >>>>>> helpers >>>>>> > for non-ExtJs stuff. For things specific to ExtJs, you'll have to >>>>>> build >>>>>> > your own helpers, but you can probably just copy, paste, and modify >>>>>> the >>>>>> > others to get what you want. >>>>>> > >>>>>> > ExtJs probably can't be built into Lift because of licensing issues, >>>>>> so >>>>>> > you'll have to do some work for yourself. >>>>>> > >>>>>> > Chas. >>>>>> > >>>>>> > Jesse Eichar wrote: >>>>>> >> Hi, >>>>>> >> >>>>>> >> I was wondering how plausible using ExtJS since Lift adds some Ajax >>>>>> >> libraries. ExtJS requires adapters to work nicely with others. I >>>>>> am >>>>>> >> not sure if the adapters need to be ran with the specific version >>>>>> of >>>>>> >> (say YUI or JQuery) the library that is shipped with Ext or if the >>>>>> >> adapters are enough by then selves. >>>>>> >> >>>>>> >> But really my question is: Is it possible to use advanced ExtJS in >>>>>> >> Lift? And what would the recommended way be? >>>>>> >> >>>>>> >> Thanks, >>>>>> >> Jesse >>>>>> >> >>>>>> > >>>>>> > > >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net >>>>> Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 >>>>> Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp >>>>> Git some: http://github.com/dpp >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net >>> Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 >>> Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp >>> Git some: http://github.com/dpp >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > -- > Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net > Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 > Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp > Git some: http://github.com/dpp > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. 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