Re: [appfuse-user] ajax and datepicker on 2m4

Thu, 31 May 2007 14:29:37 -0700 

Answered down below...

Matt Raible wrote:

On 5/31/07, J. David Mendoza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I've just tried the autocompleter after seen the datetimepicker and
optiontransferselect tags work... the autocompleter tag uses struts 2 js
that don't come in the dojo distribution.


Do these require changing dojo to be local as well as adding dojo.js
and such to the decorators <head>?

Yeap, did all that...




And yes it takes forever to load/build the calendar. If you're going to
use this tag just for the calendar I'd suggest using a faster one. (The
optiontransferselect tag works, so my guess is every tag that doesn't
use the ajax theme should work, haven't tested it though)


I'm kind of at a loss of what to do. We can support Struts'
DateTimePicker by doing the Dojo hack. At that point, it seems to make
sense to use Dojo for Spring MVC's date picker as well.

Here's the options as I seem them:

1. Use Dojo for Struts and Spring MVC. Pros: can use Struts widgets.
Cons: requires Selenium and will likely push the 2.0 release date back
a week or more.

2. Render regular input fields for dates (when using appfuse:gen) and
use some sort of popup calendar (jsCalendar or the scriptaculous one I
mentioned earlier). Pros: less invasive, you don't get 5 MB of Dojo
files in your project. Cons: Struts' datetimepicker won't work.


My suggestion is to use this one. This way we would have the RC1 release 
as soon as possible, as you've just said the Struts2 popup calendar is 
way slow, so I don't see the benefit from making it work this way. It 
would be better to see a tutorial in the site of how to get the 
jsCalendar or the scriptaculous one working though :). With the dojo 
unpacked the development cycle gets slow (jetty takes longer to get up). 
And for the ones that can't live without the ajax/datetimepicker tags 
there are proven workarounds :) (I'm using one ;)), we even could get 
lucky and get/produce a much better workaround.


David M.

3. Add Dojo and the hack so Struts users can use datetimepicker, but
use #2 for the code generation.

#2 might take some work to get the CSS and JS working properly, but we
also might be able to hide/show Dojo DatePicker (not the
DropDownDatePicker).

I've already got #1 done in my local workspace and in
appfuse-demos/struts2-crud, but I'm hesitant to check it in because of
the need to convert to Selenium to truly support it. #2 or #3 would
allow us to push off the Selenium conversion to a later date.

Matt



David M.

Matt Raible wrote:
> It should - do you have an example you'd like me to try? There's lots
> on http://struts.apache.org/2.0.6/docs/ajax-tags.html, but I'd prefer
> to try something that you've tried and doesn't work.
>
> Matt
>
> On 5/31/07, J. David Mendoza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Does the autocompleter tag work with this solution?
>>
>> David M.
>>
>> Matt Raible wrote:
>> > I took the debugging part out and used what the Struts folks were
>> > outputting instead.
>> >
>> >        <script type="text/javascript">
>> >            // Dojo configuration
>> >            djConfig = {
>> >                baseRelativePath: "<c:url value='/scripts/dojo/'/>",
>> >                isDebug: false,
>> >                bindEncoding: "UTF-8"
>> >            };
>> >        </script>
>> >        <script type="text/javascript" src="<c:url
>> > value='/scripts/dojo/dojo.js'/>"></script>
>> >
>> > Of course, it should be easy enough to add it back in.
>> >

>> > A word of caution for folks hoping to use this widget. Dojo 
seems as

>> > slow as ever - it takes a second or two for the calendar icons and
>> > date input fields to appear on the page (after the rest of the page
>> > has loaded).
>> >
>> > Matt
>> >
>> > On 5/30/07, Jason Thrasher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >>

>> >> Glad it worked! and +1 for adding to RC1.  I forgot to mention 
that

>> >> you can

>> >> see dojo's debug output by adding this to the bottom of 
default.jsp:

>> >> <authz:authorize ifAllGranted="ROLE_ADMIN">
>> >>    <div id="dojoDebugOutput"></div>
>> >> </authz:authorize>
>> >>
>> >> -Jason
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> mraible wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks Jason - these instructions worked!
>> >> >
>> >> > I'm going to make the following changes for RC1:
>> >> >
>> >> > 1. Add Dojo 0.4.3 to struts/src/main/webapp/scripts/dojo
>> >> > 2. Change Struts' decorators/default.jsp to load Dojo (so users
>> >> won't need
>> >> > <s:head theme="ajax"/>).
>> >> > 3. Modify decorators.xml and web.xml to properly include/exclude
>> Dojo
>> >> > requests.

>> >> > 4. Add css to forms.css that makes the calendar look right on 
all

>> >> > AppFuse's
>> >> > default themes.
>> >> >
>> >> > I've re-opened APF-739 to track these changes.
>> >> >
>> >> > Matt
>> >> >
>> >> > On 5/27/07, thrasher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Just a note after some testing: the aforementioned technique
>> seems to
>> >> >> work
>> >> >> for M4 and M5.  However, I didn't realize that this may be
>> >> simplified in
>> >> >> M5
>> >> >> by this:
>> >> >> http://issues.appfuse.org/browse/APF-739
>> >> >>
>> >> >> -Jason
>> >> >>
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