Thanks Richard, I will try this out. Really appreciate your help!
On 24 Jun., 12:12, Richard Quadling <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2009/6/23 Aamchi <[email protected]>:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Thanks, for your response. I'm not 100% sure if I understand correctly
> > what you mean. If I get some data and generate a hash and write this
> > to the JSON header and retrieve this when calling onSuccess, how will
> > I still have the previous hash? From where will I get this? Won't the
> > updated data cause the hash to be overwritten in the JSON header? Or
> > do I have to send two hashes always and compare them?
>
> > On 23 Jun., 22:57, Richard Quadling <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> 2009/6/23 Aamchi <[email protected]>
>
> >> > Hi,
>
> >> > I was wondering if Ajax.PeriodicalUpdater can detect if content has
> >> > changed since the last update and if so trigger an event.
>
> >> > So for example I have a scoreboard which fetches data every 5 seconds
> >> > and displays this. I would be cool if there could be some kind of
> >> > notification if content had changed. I know that the new content is
> >> > stores in responseText but how can I compare it to the previous
> >> > content...
>
> >> > Thanks,
> >> > Aman
>
> >> Personally, I would do this server side.
> >> Assuming you get the data in some sort of structure before either rending
> >> some HTML and sending it or just sending it JSON'd, then you should be able
> >> to build a hash of the data.
>
> >> See [1] for info on Hash Functions.
>
> >> So. If you sent the hash value in a X-JSON header along with an onSuccess()
> >> callback, you can extract the hash from the second param to the onSuccess
> >> and compare this with the previously retrieved hash to indicate you've got
> >> changed data. See [2] for details about PeriodicalUpdater update
> >> notification and [3] for the parameters to common callbacks.
>
> >> Regards,
>
> >> Richard.
>
> >> [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_function
> >> [2]http://www.prototypejs.org/api/ajax/periodicalUpdater
> >> <http://www.prototypejs.org/api/ajax/periodicalUpdater>[3]http://www.prototypejs.org/api/ajax/options
> >> <http://www.prototypejs.org/api/ajax/options>
>
> >> --
> >> -----
> >> Richard Quadling
> >> Zend Certified Engineer :http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731
> >> "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!"
>
> You add a
>
> previousHash:null;
>
> to your periodic updater and check that value against the one coming
> in via the X-JSON header.
>
> If it is different, then the data is different. If it is the same,
> then the data is the same.
>
> Either way, once evaluated, same the new hash.
>
> Untested (sorry), but adapting the example at [1] ...
>
> var o_Updater = new Ajax.PeriodicalUpdater
> (
> 'lastLogin',
> '/lastLogin.php',
> {
> method : 'get',
> frequency : 3,
> decay : 2,
> lastHash : null,
> onSuccess : function(o_Transport, o_JSON)
> {
> // Do we have JSON?
> if (!!o_JSON)
> {
> // Do we have a previous hash?
> if (!!this.options.lastHash &&
> (this.options.lastHash != o_JSON.thisHash))
> {
> // Hashes are different. Maybe
> activate an effect to show the
> highlighted data and slowly fade away over time.
> }
> // Update hash.
> this.options.lastHash != o_JSON.thisHash;
> }
> }
> }
> );
>
> The code on the server would be something like this (I'm using PHP).
>
> <?php
> // Assume we are getting this data from a database.
> $a_Data = array
> (
> 'Name' => 'Richard Quadling',
> 'LastPost' => '2009-06-24 10:00:00',
> );
>
> // Build hash
> $s_Hash = array('Hash' => md5(serialize($a_Data)));
>
> // Generate output.
> $s_Output =
> "<tbody><tr><td>{$a_Data['Name']}</td><td>{$a_Data['LastPost']}</td></tbody>";
>
> // X-JSON Header
> header('X-JSON: ' . json_encode($s_Hash, JSON_FORCE_OBJECT));
>
> // Output results.
> echo $s_Output;
> ?>
>
> The PHP outputs (edited) ...
>
> X-JSON: {"Hash":"a0c23e7f9651f2b65135932917b7f03a"}
> Content-type: text/html
>
> <tbody><tr><td>Richard Quadling</td><td>2009-06-24 10:00:00</td></tbody>
>
> So the X-JSON header is presented as o_JSON in onSuccess() and
> o_JSON.Hash is 'a0c23e7f9651f2b65135932917b7f03a'
>
> And the HTML would go to the container you defined in the PeriodicUpdater
>
> Richard.
>
> --
> -----
> Richard Quadling
> Zend Certified Engineer :http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731
> "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!"
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