[Lift] Re: Having trouble figuring out how to get a form to submit without submitting the page, using ajaxForm
can you paste the actual xhtml generated for this form? Br's, marius On Dec 5, 5:55 pm, Jim Barrows jim.barr...@gmail.com wrote: This is the basic definition of the form that works, but submits the page: xhtml: lift:PartyContactMechanismSnippets.save form=post !-- Form fields -- contactMechanism:submit/ /lift:PartyContactMechanismSnippets.save And the binding looks like: bind(contactMechanism, xhtml, comment - text(comment, comment = _), fromDate - text(fromDate, fromDate = _) % (id - fromDate) % (maxlength - 15) % (size - 15), thruDate - text(thruDate, thruDate = _) % (id - thruDate) % (maxlength - 15) % (size - 15), submit - submit(Add, saveContactMechanismToParty )) So, after reading the ajaxForm methods description I thought I could do this: xhtml: lift:PartyContactMechanismSnippets.save !-- Form fields -- contactMechanism:submit/ /lift:PartyContactMechanismSnippets.save And the binding would look like: ajaxForm( bind(contactMechanism, xhtml, comment - text(comment, comment = _), fromDate - text(fromDate, fromDate = _) % (id - fromDate) % (maxlength - 15) % (size - 15), thruDate - text(thruDate, thruDate = _) % (id - thruDate) % (maxlength - 15) % (size - 15), //mechanism - text(dateFormat.format(new Date()), thruDate = _) % (id - thruDate) % (maxlength - 10) % (size - 10), submit - submit(Add, saveContactMechanismToParty ))) However, when the submit button is clicked the saveContactMechanismToParty never gets called. What am I missing? -- James A Barrows -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Lift group. To post to this group, send email to lift...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en.
Re: [Lift] Re: Having trouble figuring out how to get a form to submit without submitting the page, using ajaxForm
I think the idiomatic way to handle ajax form submission is to use SHtml.ajaxForm(body, onSubmit, postSubmit): /** * Takes a form and wraps it so that it will be submitted via AJAX. This also * takes a parameter for script code that will be executed after the form has been submitted. * * @param body The form body. This should not include the lt;formgt; tag. * @param postSubmit Code that should be executed after a successful submission */ def ajaxForm(body : NodeSeq, onSubmit : JsCmd, postSubmit : JsCmd) = ... For example, def submitted = ... ajaxForm( bind(b, xhtml, comment - text(comment, comment = _) ), _Noop, submitted ) alex On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Marius marius.dan...@gmail.com wrote: can you paste the actual xhtml generated for this form? Br's, marius On Dec 5, 5:55 pm, Jim Barrows jim.barr...@gmail.com wrote: This is the basic definition of the form that works, but submits the page: xhtml: lift:PartyContactMechanismSnippets.save form=post !-- Form fields -- contactMechanism:submit/ /lift:PartyContactMechanismSnippets.save And the binding looks like: bind(contactMechanism, xhtml, comment - text(comment, comment = _), fromDate - text(fromDate, fromDate = _) % (id - fromDate) % (maxlength - 15) % (size - 15), thruDate - text(thruDate, thruDate = _) % (id - thruDate) % (maxlength - 15) % (size - 15), submit - submit(Add, saveContactMechanismToParty )) So, after reading the ajaxForm methods description I thought I could do this: xhtml: lift:PartyContactMechanismSnippets.save !-- Form fields -- contactMechanism:submit/ /lift:PartyContactMechanismSnippets.save And the binding would look like: ajaxForm( bind(contactMechanism, xhtml, comment - text(comment, comment = _), fromDate - text(fromDate, fromDate = _) % (id - fromDate) % (maxlength - 15) % (size - 15), thruDate - text(thruDate, thruDate = _) % (id - thruDate) % (maxlength - 15) % (size - 15), //mechanism - text(dateFormat.format(new Date()), thruDate = _) % (id - thruDate) % (maxlength - 10) % (size - 10), submit - submit(Add, saveContactMechanismToParty ))) However, when the submit button is clicked the saveContactMechanismToParty never gets called. What am I missing? -- James A Barrows -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Lift group. To post to this group, send email to lift...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comliftweb%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Lift group. To post to this group, send email to lift...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en.
[Lift] Re: Having trouble figuring out how to get a form to submit without submitting the page, using ajaxForm
Jon is correct. There is another approach though that was recently introduced: using SHtml.submitAjaxForm(formId) ... this is useful if you want to submit an ajax form from outside of it say when clicking a link etc. But probably the most common way is to use what Jon described. Br's, Marius On Dec 5, 7:58 pm, Jonathan Hoffman jonhoff...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, This is a tricky bit. It turns out that the javascript that's used to serialize (jQuery.serialize) the form does not include the submit button. The best way to get the functionality you want is to add a hidden field: SHtml.ajaxForm(bind(...) ++ SHtml.hidden(saveContactMechanismToParty)) If saveContactMechanismToParty returns a JsCmd that code will get executed on the client. - Jon On Dec 5, 2009, at 10:55 AM, Jim Barrows wrote: This is the basic definition of the form that works, but submits the page: xhtml: lift:PartyContactMechanismSnippets.save form=post !-- Form fields -- contactMechanism:submit/ /lift:PartyContactMechanismSnippets.save And the binding looks like: bind(contactMechanism, xhtml, comment - text(comment, comment = _), fromDate - text(fromDate, fromDate = _) % (id - fromDate) % (maxlength - 15) % (size - 15), thruDate - text(thruDate, thruDate = _) % (id - thruDate) % (maxlength - 15) % (size - 15), submit - submit(Add, saveContactMechanismToParty )) So, after reading the ajaxForm methods description I thought I could do this: xhtml: lift:PartyContactMechanismSnippets.save !-- Form fields -- contactMechanism:submit/ /lift:PartyContactMechanismSnippets.save And the binding would look like: ajaxForm( bind(contactMechanism, xhtml, comment - text(comment, comment = _), fromDate - text(fromDate, fromDate = _) % (id - fromDate) % (maxlength - 15) % (size - 15), thruDate - text(thruDate, thruDate = _) % (id - thruDate) % (maxlength - 15) % (size - 15), //mechanism - text(dateFormat.format(new Date()), thruDate = _) % (id - thruDate) % (maxlength - 10) % (size - 10), submit - submit(Add, saveContactMechanismToParty ))) However, when the submit button is clicked the saveContactMechanismToParty never gets called. What am I missing? -- James A Barrows -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Lift group. To post to this group, send email to lift...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Lift group. To post to this group, send email to lift...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en.
Re: [Lift] Re: Having trouble figuring out how to get a form to submit without submitting the page, using ajaxForm
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Marius marius.dan...@gmail.com wrote: Jon is correct. There is another approach though that was recently introduced: using SHtml.submitAjaxForm(formId) ... this is useful if you want to submit an ajax form from outside of it say when clicking a link etc. But probably the most common way is to use what Jon described. Yep, Jon's suggestion worked!! Br's, Marius On Dec 5, 7:58 pm, Jonathan Hoffman jonhoff...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, This is a tricky bit. It turns out that the javascript that's used to serialize (jQuery.serialize) the form does not include the submit button. The best way to get the functionality you want is to add a hidden field: SHtml.ajaxForm(bind(...) ++ SHtml.hidden(saveContactMechanismToParty)) If saveContactMechanismToParty returns a JsCmd that code will get executed on the client. - Jon On Dec 5, 2009, at 10:55 AM, Jim Barrows wrote: This is the basic definition of the form that works, but submits the page: xhtml: lift:PartyContactMechanismSnippets.save form=post !-- Form fields -- contactMechanism:submit/ /lift:PartyContactMechanismSnippets.save And the binding looks like: bind(contactMechanism, xhtml, comment - text(comment, comment = _), fromDate - text(fromDate, fromDate = _) % (id - fromDate) % (maxlength - 15) % (size - 15), thruDate - text(thruDate, thruDate = _) % (id - thruDate) % (maxlength - 15) % (size - 15), submit - submit(Add, saveContactMechanismToParty )) So, after reading the ajaxForm methods description I thought I could do this: xhtml: lift:PartyContactMechanismSnippets.save !-- Form fields -- contactMechanism:submit/ /lift:PartyContactMechanismSnippets.save And the binding would look like: ajaxForm( bind(contactMechanism, xhtml, comment - text(comment, comment = _), fromDate - text(fromDate, fromDate = _) % (id - fromDate) % (maxlength - 15) % (size - 15), thruDate - text(thruDate, thruDate = _) % (id - thruDate) % (maxlength - 15) % (size - 15), //mechanism - text(dateFormat.format(new Date()), thruDate = _) % (id - thruDate) % (maxlength - 10) % (size - 10), submit - submit(Add, saveContactMechanismToParty ))) However, when the submit button is clicked the saveContactMechanismToParty never gets called. What am I missing? -- James A Barrows -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Lift group. To post to this group, send email to lift...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comliftweb%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group athttp:// groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Lift group. To post to this group, send email to lift...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comliftweb%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en. -- James A Barrows -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Lift group. To post to this group, send email to lift...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en.
