On Oct 5, 8:02 pm, Benjamin Goudey <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out how to use web.py and JQuery together and I
> found a neat example posted by jgfoot last year on how to do this. But
> I can't seem to get it to work the way I think it should. My
> understanding is that the
> #riverName paragraph should get filled with the river corresponding to
> the city. But this doesn't happen for me. But I do know that it is
> retrieving the river name as it prints to stderr. Can anyone shed any
> light on why this isn't behaving as I think it should or if there are
> better ways on combining web.py and JQuery (or any Ajax-y type thing)
>
> Cheers
> Ben
>
> ###################################
> ./river.py:
> ###################################
>
> import web
> import sys
>
> # A sample "database" using just a Python dictionary object
> database = {
> "Tokyo" : "Sumida",
> "Paris" : "Seine",
> "Minneapolis" : "Mississippi",
> "Manaus" : "Amazon",
> "Cairo" : "Nile",
> "Beijing" : "Yangtze",
> "Seoul" : "Han" }
>
> class river:
> def GET(self, cityName):
> response = database.get(cityName, "I don't know")
> sys.stderr.write(repr(response)+"\n") # a poor man's JSON
> converter
class river:
def GET(self, cityName):
response = database.get(cityName, "I don't know")
sys.stderr.write(repr(response)+"\n")
return response
maybe you should return the result!!
do you??
>
> web.application( ('/river/(.*)', 'river') , globals()).run()
>
> ############################
> /static/index.html:
> ############################
>
> <html>
> <head>
> <title>City to river</title>
> <script src="/static/jquery-1.2.3.js"></script>
> <script type="text/javascript">
>
> function lookupRiver() {
> var whatTheUserEntered = $("#cityName").val();
> $.getJSON("/river/" + whatTheUserEntered, function(data){
> $("#riverName").html(data);
> });
>
> }
>
> $(document).ready(function(){
> $("#doLookup").click(lookupRiver);
>
> });
>
> </script>
> </head>
> <body>
> <p>Enter the name of a city:</p>
> <input id="cityName" />
> <input type="submit" value="Go" id="doLookup" />
> <p id="riverName"></p>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> ##############################################
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