UIWebview: Dynamically adding html content - iphone

I am making an app in which I get text from my server and display it in UIWebview. After some time more text is added and client(iphone) is notified about the additional-text. Now I want to inject this text into my UIWebview.
One method is to update some text file and reload the content. But I dont want to reload the page.
Another way can be to use javascript to check updates in a local file (which seems better).
Is there any known better solution?

If you are getting the data from the server, why not just use JavaScript and preform an AJAX request to update the page?
This allows you to skip the middle man of updating the 'template' file. Just load all of your data with AJAX in order to always have the most 'up-to date' data on the page.
$.ajax({
url: 'ajax/test.html',
success: function(data) {
$('.result').html(data);
alert('Load was performed.');
}
});

I believe javascript is better if you want to keep all user edited data (if there is some).
And also should be faster than reloading all page.

Related

textarea and jsp

I have a textarea that I first print some values coming from a request.getParameter("some_textarea_name"). The user is allowed to modify those values and then I want to get the new values and replace the old ones with the new ones so as to query the new ones and get the results from my database tables. Can I do that without redirecting the user to a new page e.g without using the <form method> and the request.getParameter()
Can I do that without redirecting the user
Yes, you can implement an ajax call that will submit the form without redirecting the user and you can do something with the response (perhaps add it to the page).
If you need help using ajax follow this tutorial, but be aware that it implements AJAX in pure javascript (its a bit more bloated / complicated). If you want to keep it simple look into jQuery ajax, and here is a tutorial too.
without using the
No, you need to use the form to be submitted, however if you use ajax you wont need to redirect the user.

Jeditable displays entire HTML document as replacement for the editable field after trigger/submit

I am using jeditable and had it working very weird.
after editing the editable field and submits it instead of printing the new content it displays the entire document window in the textbox(placeholder of editable content).
question: from the example where the author used save.php. what was the content of save.php?
is it necessary to send the result on a php file?? can't an HTML file work?
I believe within the comments box at the bottom of the author's main page - somebody has kindly provided a version of the save.php file for people to use and modify as needed.
The save.php file is used to actually save the values of the editable field/s. Without it, nothing would happen to the data and it would reset to the default text if the page is refreshed.
Options instead of a php file could be:
Saving the text/select changes to a Cookie
Using another server side methos such as asp, jsp, rails or .NET to process the saving of the changes.
an html page is a static page with no processing facility per say to communicate with the website server, so no.. html is not suitable for such a need.
Saving script must return the string you want to display on page after editing. You are now returning full html page.
Source of for all demofiles can be found from GitHub.

Copy string from UIWebView

I've put UIWebView in my app which loads login page, after user logs in, can I write some function that will copy specific link from that UIWebView that is specific for every user?
The best way to do this would probably be to include a JavaScript function in the page that returns the link or data you need. See [UIWebView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:]
Another way could be to retrieve the HTML in your iOS code, get the data you need, and then set that content in the UIWebView using the loadHTMLString:baseURL: method.

Can I get the source of the current Wicket Page?

I've been using wicketTester.getServetResponse.getDocument to get the text of the current page for testing, only to find that after an ajax request it is set to the ajax response, not the whole page.
Is there any way to get a representation of the whole rendered page, as the browser would be seeing it after the ajax manipulation?
With WicketTester, you can simulate an Ajax call and see that your app sends the correct Ajax response. But it doesn't really exercise the ajax.
So I don't believe there's a way to get that from WicketTester.
If you actually need to test the app all the way to the UI including Ajax/javascript effects on the rendering, you likely need to use something like Selenium for that portion of your testing.
Thinking the Wicket way I hope the following approach should work:
#startPage(YourPage.class)
do some Ajax calls
#startPage(wicketTester.getLastRenderedPage())
wicketTester.getLastRenderedPageAsString()
The idea is: you start a page for testing, the first response is complete page response, then you do some Ajax calls which change some models around, then you start the last rendered page as an instance - this way it will render the page with the updated models from the Ajax calls.
The trouble is that you can put any Javascript in the response to an Ajax call. But if you don't want to deal with that, you can save the original full-page DOM, iterate through the objects in the Ajax response, find them by id in the full DOM and replace them with the new versions.
How useful this would be, I don't know, my guess would be not very. so I'd probably go with Selenium too.

Grab contents of a webpage in GWT

Let's say that I have a link to a webpage that contains some text. What's the easiest way to grab this text to process?
Thanks.
Long story short, I don't think it's possible to make a request from the client js to grab the text from a url with a different domain.
It is possible to make requests to load json. This link describes how.
Basically, the steps are:
Embed a tag in the GWT page
after GWT page is initialized, update
the script tag's src to load remote
url
remote url returns some json data
padded inside a callback javascript
function such as:
callback({blah:foo})
So, you're only option may be writing a method on the server side that loads the url, gets the text. You could then call this method from gwt client using normal rpc technique.
Assuming same origin: use the "RequestBuilder" class.
If you are trying to grab a webpage from a different origin, then it obviously won't work.