[Lift] How do you submit a post request to an external url

2009-05-05 Thread glenn
This may be a dumb question from a lift novice, but here goes... I want to post a form to an external url for processing. Specifically, I have in mind inserting a node into an Apache Sling instance (JCR). I have a form like so: lift:Sling.add form=POST action=http://admin:admin@ localhost:/

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-05 Thread Narayanaswamy, Mohan
http://www.slideshare.net/mdesjardins/demystifying-maven - Could someone add this link in MAVEN wiki? It helped me to begin with Lift yesterday. -Original Message- From: liftweb@googlegroups.com [mailto:lift...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Axel Rose Sent: 04 May 2009 03:55 To:

[Lift] Re: Some Lift enhancements

2009-05-05 Thread Timothy Perrett
Wow, very nice David! On May 4, 11:29 pm, David Pollak feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com wrote: Folks, Based on feedback, I've made some enhancements to Lift:    - Template caching is on by default when in Production mode    - Method lookup caching is on by default in Production mode for

[Lift] Re: Some Lift enhancements

2009-05-05 Thread marius d.
Dave, if you need any help with optimizations just let me know. Br's, Marius On May 5, 1:29 am, David Pollak feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com wrote: Folks, Based on feedback, I've made some enhancements to Lift:    - Template caching is on by default when in Production mode    - Method

[Lift] Re: 1st draft of response to Martin's code challenge for scalable componentized lambda evaluator

2009-05-05 Thread Charles F. Munat
Um, wow. Very cool. Chas. Meredith Gregory wrote: Lifted, Scalad and lasses, Recently Martin passed along a little code challenge regarding scalable abstractions for building a little lambda calculus evaluator. i've finally put together a 1st draft response. i've still got a lot of

[Lift] Re: 1st draft of response to Martin's code challenge for scalable componentized lambda evaluator

2009-05-05 Thread marius d.
Any reason why not using Scala's combinator parsers? ... or this is beyond the point of the exercise? Br's Marius On May 5, 4:55 am, Meredith Gregory lgreg.mered...@gmail.com wrote: Lifted, Scalad and lasses, Recently Martin passed along a little code challenge regarding scalable

[Lift] Re: button binder

2009-05-05 Thread Derek Chen-Becker
It looks right to me. What's not working? Does the button not get emitted or is the function not being called? Derek On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Bryan germ...@gmail.com wrote: How can I create a widget to render a customized button. This is probably trivial, but I failed on my first

[Lift] Re: 1st draft of response to Martin's code challenge for scalable componentized lambda evaluator

2009-05-05 Thread Meredith Gregory
Marius, Thanks for the query. Yes, there is a not so subtle point. Take a look at the grammarhttp://code.google.com/p/rlambda/source/browse/trunk/src/main/bnfc/rlambda.cf. To my way of thinking, these are it's advantages. - Readable (and therefore maintainable) - Targets the following

[Lift] Re: How to handle refresh with S.redirectTo with state?

2009-05-05 Thread Bryan.
Thanks for the reply, Marius. I just saw your reply and am not sure I fully grasp how this is safe. What if request A comes in and sets com.bryan.myproject.locationQuery and starts working on processing the rest of the request. In the meantime, request B comes in and sets

[Lift] Re: How to handle refresh with S.redirectTo with state?

2009-05-05 Thread David Pollak
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Bryan. germ...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the reply, Marius. I just saw your reply and am not sure I fully grasp how this is safe. What if request A comes in and sets com.bryan.myproject.locationQuery and starts working on processing the rest of the request.

[Lift] Re: 1st draft of response to Martin's code challenge for scalable componentized lambda evaluator

2009-05-05 Thread marius d.
Right ... I always found combinator parsers a very nice fit for BNF. I agree these parser are not trivial but I still like them a lot :) Br's, Marius On May 5, 5:48 pm, Meredith Gregory lgreg.mered...@gmail.com wrote: Marius, Thanks for the query. Yes, there is a not so subtle point. Take a

[Lift] Re: how to hide /display div tag in lift

2009-05-05 Thread David Pollak
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:33 PM, pravin karne pravinka...@gmail.com wrote: how th lift:Template.show template=_simple_template / tag works This tag loads the net.liftweb.example.snippet.Template class. Because this class is a DispatchSnippet, Lift looks at the PartialFunction returned by the

[Lift] Re: Cannot access html files other than index.html in GAE using lift

2009-05-05 Thread David Pollak
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Dan Greening green...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, it works! (It is not in Exploring Lift. Who do I lobby to get it in?) If we were to put everything in Lift plus where Lift touches the JEE infrastructure into a book, the book would be about 3,000 pages. This

[Lift] Re: Do you guys ever use lift:a key=... ... in your templates?

2009-05-05 Thread David Pollak
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 3:51 AM, Marius marius.dan...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm asking this because SHtml.a is a bit a-typical in the sense of producing lift:a that will render the ajax link eventually. This is a legacy of very old Lift and very old CometActors. I'm cool with deprecating

[Lift] Re: Do you guys ever use lift:a key=... ... in your templates?

2009-05-05 Thread marius d.
sweet ! .. I'll take care of that. On May 5, 7:18 pm, David Pollak feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 3:51 AM, Marius marius.dan...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm asking this because SHtml.a is a bit a-typical in the sense of producing lift:a that will render the ajax

[Lift] Re: How do you submit a post request to an external url

2009-05-05 Thread glenn
Tim, I'm not sure what you mean by programatic POST or post to the 3rd part..., but it seems a simple, yet necessary use-case to be able to post to any available URL and receive a response within the lift framework. Particularly if one is doing mashups, getting and storing data, RSS and Atom

[Lift] Re: How do you submit a post request to an external url

2009-05-05 Thread David Pollak
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:43 AM, glenn gl...@exmbly.com wrote: Tim, I'm not sure what you mean by programatic POST or post to the 3rd part..., but it seems a simple, yet necessary use-case to be able to post to any available URL and receive a response within the lift framework. If you're

[Lift] Re: How do you submit a post request to an external url

2009-05-05 Thread Timothy Perrett
As per David's remarks, no framework, Lift included, can grab something that you post to a 3rd party server... Its just not going to your server to be able to handle it; its going to the 3rd party! Is there a special reason you thought that lift does this? My suggestion about the programmatic

[Lift] Re: How do you submit a post request to an external url

2009-05-05 Thread glenn
Tim, Ahh... I see what you mean. Just bypass lift altogether. Now you see why I'm just a novice lifter. I suppose the same applies to retrieving data from external sources (other than a db connection)? Thanks. Glenn... On May 5, 10:13 am, David Pollak feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com wrote: On

[Lift] Re: How do you submit a post request to an external url

2009-05-05 Thread Timothy Perrett
Hey Glenn, Don't worry about being a novice - we've all been there! What kind of external data did you want to get? If it's service based e.g salesforce then you can do that with scala inside a lift app. Describe what you want to do and we'll advise on the best course of action :-)

[Lift] Re: Generating the site?

2009-05-05 Thread Derek Chen-Becker
Ubuntu 9.04. Maven 2.0.9. Java: java version 1.6.0_13 Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_13-b03) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 11.3-b02, mixed mode) Would upgrading to Maven 2.0.10 help? Derek On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Josh Suereth joshua.suer...@gmail.comwrote:

[Lift] Re: Generating the site?

2009-05-05 Thread David Bernard
could you try : cd liftweb mvn install site-deploy -Prelease the fully generated site should be generated into $HOME/.m2/mvn-sites/liftweb On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 21:17, Derek Chen-Becker dchenbec...@gmail.comwrote: I'm working on updating the Scaladocs right now and I'm running into issues

[Lift] more CRUDify

2009-05-05 Thread Tobias Daub
Hello List, I've some more questions about CRUDify! The sources aren't helping me so much and I really miss some more comments! (sorry) 1.) I wanna change the behaviour for listing items, e.g. I only want to list items that belong to the logged in user. Is there any method I can override

[Lift] Lift + Google Map issue

2009-05-05 Thread Timothy Perrett
Guys, got a very strange problem with lift serving a google map page I tore things back to the bear metal example from google, and with working code in a static html page served by apache, it works fine. I then paste it into a lift served page, and I get a JS error in the FF console:

[Lift] Re: Generating the site?

2009-05-05 Thread David Bernard
Sorry it is not currenlty supported by (v)scaladoc, but it should. I created http://github.com/davidB/vscaladoc/issues/#issue/1 So use tag you need (existing, whish,...) and I'll try to add support in vscaladoc (1.3+, 1.2 will be release next week-end). On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 22:13, Derek

[Lift] Re: Lift + Google Map issue

2009-05-05 Thread David Pollak
Tim, You instincts are correct. Lift is serving the page as XHTML. The mime type when Firefox is detected is application/xhtml+xml If you want to disable service as XHTML, set: LiftRules.useXhtmlMimeType = false Thanks, David On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Timothy Perrett

[Lift] Re: Lift + Google Map issue

2009-05-05 Thread Timothy Perrett
LOL!! Thanks David, after 2 years of Lift its nice to know there is still stuff to catch me out :-D You rock. Cheers, Tim On May 5, 9:36 pm, David Pollak feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com wrote: Tim, You instincts are correct.  Lift is serving the page as XHTML.  The mime type when Firefox is

[Lift] Re: Generating the site?

2009-05-05 Thread Derek Chen-Becker
Cool. The main ones I would use are @return, @param and @see, and it appears that you support the first two just fine. Thanks! Derek On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:31 PM, David Bernard david.bernard...@gmail.comwrote: Sorry it is not currenlty supported by (v)scaladoc, but it should. I created

[Lift] Re: more CRUDify

2009-05-05 Thread David Pollak
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Tobias Daub hannes.flo...@gmx.li wrote: Hello List, I've some more questions about CRUDify! The sources aren't helping me so much and I really miss some more comments! (sorry) 1.) I wanna change the behaviour for listing items, e.g. I only want to list

[Lift] Re: 1st draft of response to Martin's code challenge for scalable componentized lambda evaluator

2009-05-05 Thread Derek Chen-Becker
We just can't be half-assed about anything, can we? ;) Seriously, this is really, really cool. I'm looking forward to seeing how this grows. Derek On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Meredith Gregory lgreg.mered...@gmail.comwrote: Lifted, Scalad and lasses, Recently Martin passed along a little

[Lift] Re: Some Lift enhancements

2009-05-05 Thread Derek Chen-Becker
Are there tools that let you compare rendered output in a test setting? I mean, something other than a diff style comparison, since what we're aiming for is render equivalence as opposed to output equivalence. I mean, hypothetically speaking, if an optimization changes, say, a color from #ff

[Lift] Re: Lift + Google Map issue

2009-05-05 Thread Derek Chen-Becker
Just to complete the discussion, the error you got ( NS_ERROR_DOM_NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR) indicates that the page is in XHTML compliance mode in FireFox, but is trying to use the Document.write(...) JavaScript function, which only exists in HTML. I'm really looking forward to the day when Google maps

[Lift] Re: 1st draft of response to Martin's code challenge for scalable componentized lambda evaluator

2009-05-05 Thread Meredith Gregory
Derek, et al, Thanks for all the kind feedback. i could use a little help with one thing. In addition to this project, i've also got - A project exploring how a relational query language is generated from a DSL describing typed sets of tuples http://code.google.com/p/relatrope/ - A

[Lift] Re: Sample applications are somewhat slow - is Lift slow ?

2009-05-05 Thread Daniel Guryca
Thank you for your benchmarking description. I have just tested it too. My results are something around 330 req/s which is superior to previous results. Great ! The only problem I have encountered is that after something around 2000 requests the whole application stalls and locks and do not

[Lift] Started work on API docs

2009-05-05 Thread Derek Chen-Becker
I just checked in my first 0.25% of work on the API. I'm beginning by tackling the S object, and I got down to the high level session dispatch functions. The functions aren't in alphabetical order, so let me just list a few of the functions that I embellished docs on in case anyone wants to

[Lift] Re: Lift + Google Map issue

2009-05-05 Thread Timothy Perrett
Yeah for sure ­ I knew this was the error but as when I was doing curl ­I the text/html response did not corrolate with the error... Lift was a bit too clever for me then! Haha. Cheers, Tim On 05/05/2009 23:30, Derek Chen-Becker dchenbec...@gmail.com wrote: Just to complete the discussion,

[Lift] Re: Sample applications are somewhat slow - is Lift slow ?

2009-05-05 Thread David Pollak
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Daniel Guryca dun...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you for your benchmarking description. I have just tested it too. My results are something around 330 req/s which is superior to previous results. Great ! The only problem I have encountered is that after

[Lift] Re: Some Lift enhancements

2009-05-05 Thread David Pollak
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Derek Chen-Becker dchenbec...@gmail.comwrote: Are there tools that let you compare rendered output in a test setting? I mean, something other than a diff style comparison, since what we're aiming for is render equivalence as opposed to output equivalence. I