I would of course be very +1 to include the ajaxSubmit :). Thanks for the work.
This looks a bit different to the button I tried before, maybe you have a patch
so that I can try it out on the test app?
Adam
On Jan 12, 2010, at 8:39 PM, Marius wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Recently (and not only) there have been discussions about ajax forms
> and their submit Scala functions not being called and that's because
> JQuery's form serialization doesn't serialize the input submits (for
> pertinent reasons). The workaround is as you know to use hidden
> fields.
>
> Adam also wanted an ajax form with multiple submit buttons taking
> different actions depending on which button is being called. This is
> also *doable* using hidden fields .... but not quite from elegant.
>
> I've experimented a way to allow ajax form submission but after all
> form field functions are being called your own ajax Scala function is
> being called (with no hidden fields). the idea is this:
>
> 1. I added an SHtml.ajaxSubmit which has the same signature with
> SHtml.submit
> 2. At js level I added a liftAjax.lift_uriSuffix
> 3. When clicking the ajaxSubmit button we set the
> liftAjax.lift_uriSuffix with the function name value. This is the
> function name of your scala function. Hence your scala function for
> ajaxSubmit will be called after form field functions are called.
>
> In short we "piggy back" the Scala function info on top of the
> serialized form info.
>
> I tested it and it works just fine for me:
>
> Using it looks something like like:
>
> ajaxForm(bind("hello", xhtml,
> "field1" -> text("", (s) => {println("field1 = " + s)}),
> "field2" -> text("", (s) => {println("field2 = " + s)}),
> "field3" -> text("", (s) => {println("field3 = " + s)}),
> "submit" -> ajaxSubmit("Press me", () => {
> println("my ajax func called.")
> Noop
> }))
>
> ... you got the idea.
>
> This of course allows putting virtually any number of ajax submit
> buttons and the right function will be called on server side.
>
> I'm thinking to add this to Lift but first I'd like to know your
> thoughts.
>
> Br's,
> Marius
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