Thanks Aaron, works perfectly.
Other than looking at the code how would one discover what AjaxHyperlink and
friends can do? The documentation / JavaDoc is not very revealing.
---markus---
> On 23 Jun 2024, at 17:43, Aaron Rosenzweig <aa...@chatnbike.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Markus,
>
> To use <details><summary> like you envision you need to add some scaffolding.
>
> Realize that the ajax link and the ajax submit button can be given a named
> function. When you do that, they don’t render, put provide a name you can
> call on the client side that will do a round trip to the server. So you need
> to consider if you have a form (or not) and if you want to synchronize
> bindings (or not) to choose between them. But let’s assume you just want a
> “click” without form values going across. You’ll need to place an element
> like this near your <details><summary>:
>
> <wo:AjaxHyperlink functionName = "$toggleFunctionName" action = "$toggle” />
>
> Bindings could be implemented like so:
>
> public String toggleFunctionName() {
> if (StringUtils.isBlank(_toggleFunctionName)) {
> _toggleFunctionName = "details_summary_" +
> ERXWOContext.safeIdentifierName(context(), true /*willCache*/);
> }
> return _toggleFunctionName;
> }
>
> public WOActionResults toggle() {
> setIsOpen( ! isOpen());
> return null;
> }
>
>
> Then you’ll need to build your summary tag as a container element and listen
> to click events like so:
>
> <wo:genericContainer elementName = "summary" onclick = "$onclickJavascript”>
> Summary text
> </wo:genericContainer>
>
> The click text could be:
>
> public String onclickJavascript(){
> String code = toggleFunctionName() + "(); return true;";
> return code;
> }
>
> Or if there is a lot of complex stuff going on and race conditions with JS
> events maybe you need a hack to invoke Ajax on a delay
> public String onclickJavascript(){
> String code = "setTimeout(" + toggleFunctionName() + ", 500); return
> true;";
> return code;
> }
>
> Notice that there is no update container specified on the AjaxHyperlink.
> That’s because you don’t need to refresh anything, you only need to tell the
> server the state of open/close.
>
>
>> On Jun 23, 2024, at 7:28 AM, mailinglists via Webobjects-dev
>> <webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com> wrote:
>>
>> Anyone using this component? It has bindings that seem not to be used. Does
>> this work at all? I cannot make sense of it.
>>
>> Alternatively has anyone made proper use of the html construct
>> <details><summary>? It works nicely but I cannot preserve “open” state when
>> updating an enclosing container because I have not found a way to call back
>> into the server when the summary is clicked to open/close. This action is
>> pure client side performed by the browser itself. Any way to tap into it?
>>
>> Any other usable component around for such a hide/reveal functionality?
>>
>> Thanks for your ideas
>> ---markus---
>>
>>
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