For anyone who read this reply, please note that I was naive and thought the URL hash would be sent to the server. It is not. So refresh & bookmarking is still problematic, but back & forward can be handled gracefully.
-Andrew On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Andrew Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I am just starting it, and it is a bit hard to incorporate into > myfaces (facelets requirement, servlet filter and a custom view root), > but I may blog on it. The gist is: > > 1) Custom ViewHandler to re-use UIViewRoot if the template doesn't change > 2) Custom UISubview component that uses a TagHandler based on the > DecoratorHandler of Facelets that forces a PPR of a template region > when either > 2a) the view has changed (so PPR template "zones") or > 2b) the included file has changed > 3) use of widow.location.hash to have browser back-forward history as > well as bookmarking (see the filter below) > 4) Custom JavaScript interval that checks the page hash to see if the > user has hit back or forward > 5) Custom servlet filter to alter the hash of a URL into a different > URL and query string to keep 3rd party JSF libraries like Seam happy > (I may be able to do this in the ViewHandler, but I'll have to see) > 6) Custom code tied with an XML configuration file to tie viewIds to a > hash and to the base template to use. > > It would be quite a bit of work to make this open source > (documentation, more flexible API, more reusable, etc.) and also a > long blog, but when I get done I'll see if I have the energy. I do a > lot of things on the side, so even more open source work may not fit > in to my schedule, but I'll see what I can do. > > If the team lets me, I may add a new project onto Trinidad's offering > that is more of an optional controller library that requires facelets > and then ask ppl. for help to clean it up to get it to public > consumption quality. > > -Andrew > > > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 2:42 AM, Danny Robinson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Andrew, > > > > Any chance you could share a how-to on this - or at least some tips. It's > > something we've seen in past projects also. > > > > Thanks, > > Danny > > > > > > > > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 11:13 PM, Andrew Robinson > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Ignore this thread > > > > > > Sorry, as long as the UIView root is not re-used the partial target > > > code is not needed > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Andrew Robinson > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I am attempting to create a 100% AJAX interfaces to my application, > > > > that not only includes page updates but navigation as well. > > > > > > > > If 2 of my pages share the same facelets template, I am fine. If the > > > > user is navigating between two unrelated templates I want to PPR the > > > > entire page. In order to do this, I use the RequestContext > > > > addPartialTarget(UIComponent) method with the UIXDocument. > > > > > > > > The problem is that the PPR framework of Trinidad is not escaping any > > > > CDATA blocks in the response. As a result the CDATA block terminates > > > > early. > > > > > > > > The beginning of the response content: > > > > > > > > <?xml version="1.0" ?> > > > > <?Tr-XHR-Response-Type ?> > > > > <content action="/test-app/test.jsf"> <fragment><![CDATA[<html > > > > xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; > > > > dir="ltr" xml:lang="en"> > > > > <head> > > > > <meta name="generator" content="Apache Trinidad"> > > > > ... > > > > > > > > "]]>" appear inside this CDATA block (nested blocks from the > > > > document's scripts). > > > > > > > > I presume this is a bug, or am I missing something? > > > > > > > > trinidad 1.2.7-SNAPSHOT > > > > > > > > -Andrew > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Chordiant Software Inc. > > www.chordiant.com >
