Any solution that doesn't require nested forms?
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Igor Vaynberg <igor.vaynb...@gmail.com>wrote:
> easy. put each section into its own form, all inside the one big form.
> if a button of the inner form is pressed only that form is validated,
> while values for the entire form are preserved.
>
> there is a wiki page which explains how embedded forms work.
>
> -igor
>
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Tony Wu <e90t...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks Igor, my use case was an attempt to solve a bigger problem. Let me
> > try to describe the main problem I am trying to solve:
> >
> > I have 1 big form with 3 distinct sections. Each section has an "update"
> > link which should run every FormComponent's validators for that section.
> The
> > trick is I can't use form submission because I don't want to validate the
> > other parts of the form, just that 1 section and provide error feedback
> if
> > necessary. The final button on the form is an actual submit, which will
> run
> > through every FormComponent's validators on the page. I thought about
> > splitting it up into 3 separate forms so each "update" link is actually a
> > submit, but the final button needs to validate every input in every
> section
> > - so that's why I'm using 1 form. I thought about nested forms as well,
> but
> > that isn't syntactically correct in HTML.
> >
> > The crux of the problem is I need to run validators for only specific
> > FormComponents without doing a form submit. Is there any way I can do
> that
> > with wicket?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tony
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Igor Vaynberg <igor.vaynb...@gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> links do not transfer form values to the serverside, so you need to
> >> use a bit of js to do it for you. not sure exactly what your usecase
> >> is (sounds strange), but here goes off the top of my head:
> >>
> >> abstract class myuberlink extends link {
> >> private final textfield tf;
> >> public myuberlink(string id, textfield tf) { super(id);this.tf=tf;
> >> tf.setoutputmarkupid(true);}
> >> public void oncomponenttag(tag) {
> >>
> >>
>
> tag.put("onclick","this.href=this.href+'&"+tf.getinputname()+"='+document.getElementById('"+tf.getmarkupid()+"').value;
> >> return true;"); }
> >>
> >> public final void onclick() {
> >> onclick(getrequest().getattribute(tf.getinputname()); }
> >>
> >> protected abstract void onclick(string value);
> >> }
> >>
> >> -igor
> >>
> >> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Tony Wu <e90t...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Is there a way to get a TextField's value without submitting the form?
> >> For
> >> > example, if I have a TextField and a Link (not a submit Button), I
> want
> >> the
> >> > Link's onClick to System.out.println the TextField's value at that
> time.
> >> I
> >> > tried using TextField.getInput, getConvertedInput, no dice on both.
> >> >
> >> > I even tried adding a AjaxFormComponentUpdatingBehavior to the
> TextField
> >> for
> >> > "onchange", which does work to change the TextField's model whenever a
> >> user
> >> > types something, but it's getInput and getConvertedInput is always
> null
> >> when
> >> > I click the Link. Even if the AjaxFormComponentUpdatingBehavior's
> >> onUpdate I
> >> > do TextField.setConvertedInput(model's new value) explicity, both
> >> getInput
> >> > and getConvertedInput are both null.
> >> >
> >> > Any ideas?
> >> >
> >>
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