Ah, sorry. I didn't read closely what you were trying to do. For ajax
response you need a RenderCommand, as Thiago said...
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Mark <mark-li...@xeric.net> wrote:
> Josh,
>
> Thats what I thought originally. This is for a ModalDialog using
> Taha's addon. When someone clicks "more info" it pops up with a modal
> dialog box and the contents are determined by this method. If I
> return a String, Tapestry tries to find a page that matches the String
> and return that instead of just rendering it in the modal dialog box.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Josh Canfield <joshcanfi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Have you tried returning a String? There is a built-in TypeCoercer for
>> String -> Renderable
>>
>> This is implemented using StringRenderable which uses write(text) (not
>> writeRaw) so your html will be escaped.
>>
>> Josh
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Mark <mark-li...@xeric.net> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo
>>> <thiag...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 01:25:39 -0300, Mark <mark-li...@xeric.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Is there a better way to construct a block from a string in Java than
>>>>> this?
>>>>>
>>>>> Block onShowDialogFromMoreInfo(TicketClass ticketClass) {
>>>>> return new RenderableAsBlock(new
>>>>> StringRenderable(person.getInfo()));
>>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> Do you really need it to be a block? To pass it to Delegate? It doesn't
>>>> need
>>>> to be a block. It can also be a component or any object that implements
>>>> RenderCommand. Why don't you just return a RenderCommand instance? Tapestry
>>>> ultimately renders only RenderCommand's. Anything else which can be
>>>> rendered
>>>> implements RenderCommand (including BlockImpl) or converted to an instance
>>>> of it.
>>>
>>> Ah ok. So something along the lines of this?
>>>
>>> Object onShowDialogFromMoreInfo(final Person person) {
>>> return new RenderCommand()
>>> {
>>> public void render(MarkupWriter writer, RenderQueue queue)
>>> {
>>> writer.writeRaw("<b>" + person.getName() + "</b>");
>>> }
>>> };
>>> }
>>>
>>> I was thinking that there should be a way to do it with just a string,
>>> but I guess that won't work because a string will try to send the
>>> browser to a new page instead of just updating the part that needs to
>>> be updated.
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
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