>From: "Ian.Priest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi, > > I've set up a couple of remoting methods, but I don't really want to > code the HTML in my java method.
Are you talking about Shale/Ajax style of remoting? >What I'd like to do is have the snippet > of HTML returned by my remoting method defined in the same way as the > rest of the html on the site; i.e. in an html file that's loaded by > Clay. > Do you want to pull this html content from a place other than the classpath or the web context root? Is the html dynamic or static? > My remoting method fetches a detail list when a table row is clicked, a > little like opening the next level of a tree, so what I'd like to do is: > > 1. User clicks on row x in the table > 2. Remoting method viewController.getDetails() is called > 3. viewController.getDetails() loads details of x as a List and sets a > variable theList > 4. viewController.getDetails() creates an instance of Clay that loads > file theDetails.html > 5. File theDetails.html renders as a couple of table rows using > viewController.getTheList() to get table contents > 6. viewController.getDetails() gets the HTML rendered by the Clay load > and writes it out as the response to the remoting method > Are you trying to render a static document or do you need to collect and store data? Or, are you looking at the Clay runtime options using the shapeValidator callback and you would like to load html fragments? > Doing the above means the HTML style agency will still be able to edit > the HTML look and feel without me having to edit the Java code for them. What part of the java code are you talking about? > I want to avoid reloading the page or sending a full tree view that can > just be unfolded as the page size would then be potentially very large. > > Is this possible? Are there any code examples? > I'm not sure that I understand your use case but it sounds like you want the html content fragments to be managed outside of the web application? > Cheers, > Ian. > Gary > >
