I've followed the Wicket by Example guide to get the ObjectAutoCompleteField working, and it does so quite nicely.
I have a huge problem, though, and that is to show an initially set object in the field when the page loads. The object is retrieved from a model I use for the form where the ObjectAutoCompleteField is used. Changing the ObjectAutoCompleteField changes the model attribute it is "connected" to, and any subsequent changes in the field shows the appropriate label in its place, just not the initial one when the page loads—the only thing that shows is the edit link (to get to the autocomplete functionality).
I've looked around in the documentation for the ObjectAutoCompleteBuilder but haven't found any corresponding method to even set the initial value explicitly on page load.
I finally managed to find a solution by looking through the classes relating to ObjectAutoCompleteField.
The ObjectAutoCompleteField is constructed by the build method in ObjectAutoCompleteBuilder. So, by calling the readOnlyRenderer method on the builder, creating a new ObjectReadOnlyRenderer creating a label inside its getObjectRenderer, I got the ObjectAutoCompleteField to render a preselected object on page load.
ObjectAutoCompleteBuilder<Author, Long> builder = new ObjectAutoCompleteBuilder<Author, Long>(provider);
builder.readOnlyRenderer(new ObjectReadOnlyRenderer<Long>() {
public Component getObjectRenderer(String id, IModel<Long> pModel, IModel<String> pSearchTextModel) {
return new Label(id, new PropertyModel<Author>(model, "author"));
}
});
One would think that this was the standard behaviour, but now I know for future reference.
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Lightswitch renders my navigation property as a list picker, but I can't figure out how to set a default value on it. There must be a simple way to do it. I've scoured the net, and all the suggestions look hopelessly kludgy. Is there a good comprehensive tutorial out there for Lightswitch? The most common tasks like setting the default value on a dropdown are ridiculously hard to figure out.
Here's how I did it.
myapp.Address.created = function (entity) {
myapp.activeDataWorkspace.MailListData.CountryRegion_LUs.filter("CountryRegionCode eq 'US'").execute().then(function (result) {
entity.CountryRegion_LU = result.results[0];
});
}
You want to write a handler for the created Javascript event for the parent entity. I'm binding CountryRegion_LUs, which are in the Address entity, so I am binding to the created event of the Address entity, not the CountryRegion_LUs entity. "MailListData" is the name of my database. I'm using an OData query to pull out the CountryRegion_LU that has a CountryRegionCode of "US." I could have simply used "load()" instead of .filter("CountryRegionCode eq 'US'").execute() to load all the records, and then picked the member of the result-set I wanted, say results.result[221], but then I'd be bringing all the data over and filtering client-side.
refer to this post of which I asked myself, there is a detailed answer on the problem you have above: it explains how to set your modal picker/details picker with a default value
Lightswitch HTML Client - set modal picker value when screen created
any questions feel free to ask
Pretty straight-forward question, but I can't find this anywhere. I'm using WicketStuff's TinyMCE to make a Rich Text Editor in my application, and can't find anywhere how to get the input from the text area. For brevity's sake, the following is a simplified version of the code I'm using.
private String input;
...
TinyMCESettings settings = new TinyMCESettings(TinyMCESettings.Theme.simple);
TextArea<String> textArea = new TextArea<String>("editor", new PropertyModel<String>(this, "input"));
textArea.add(new TinyMceBehavior(settings));
form.add(textArea);
Using this, I would expect the usual manner to simply use my String 'input' since it's set as the model. This always results in null as the model isn't being updated.
I tried using the auto-save plugin in case it was expecting the save button to be clicked (which doesn't update the model either), and neither worked. The only thing I've been able to do to get the user's input is to add a HiddenField, with a new model, and make a JavaScript call like
document.getElementById('hiddenField').value = tinyMCE.get('editor').getContent();
but this has led to other problems with trying to call the JS in the desired place and to get it to work properly. I feel this shouldn't be necessary anyways, as surely someone must have implemented a method to get the contents of the text area being used.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks to a blog post at Nevermind Solutions, the way to get the model updated is to add the following JavaScript to the form's submitting button:
onclick="tinyMCE.triggerSave(true,true);"
My text area is inside a panel with the button outside of the panel, so it doesn't directly work for me. The trick was to add the JavaScript call to the button's onSubmit, move the logic into the onAfterSubmit, and to make the button MultiPart so that it could call the save trigger before doing the other logic associated to the model.
Hope this might help some others in the future.
You have to add a modifier to the submit button so that the model can update.
AjaxButton btnSubmit = new AjaxButton("btnSubmit", new Model()) {
#Override
public void onSubmit(AjaxRequestTarget target, Form<?> form) {
doSomething();
}
};
btnSubmit.add(new TinyMceAjaxSubmitModifier());
Have a look here for more info
I have been trying GWTP for the past couple of weeks and building a small project with it.
Here's the question :
I have a grid widget (attached screenshot) which shows a list of data. On selection of a checkbox of a row and clicking on Edit Request, I get into a detail page.
Since I have all the data (model) to be shown in the detail page in the summary screen presenter itself, I don't want to fetch it from the database again.
So, I did the following :
On selection and clicking edit request, I get the selected model
Make a place request to the detail page
Fire an edit event and pass the selected model as parameter.
I understand that I am doing it wrong because when I select an item and hit Edit Request, the detail page does not receive the selected item yet. It just shows a blank page with no data filled in (obviously, because the place has been reached much before the event has been fired).
Current code :
RequestModel selectedItem = getView().getGrid().getSelectionModel().getSelectedItem();
PlaceRequest placeRequest=new PlaceRequest(NameTokens.initiationedit);
getEventBus().fireEvent(new RequestEditEvent(selectedItem, PHASE_INITIATION));
placeManager.revealPlace(placeRequest);
Personally thought solution : Instead of firing an event, I could make a placerequest with a parameter of the selected item's id and then override the useManualReveal and the prepareFromRequest to fetch data fresh from database.
But is there a way I could avoid database call for the pre-existing data.
If you want to keep your current "RequestEditEvent" solution, then make sure to use #ProxyEvent (see http://code.google.com/p/gwt-platform/wiki/GettingStarted?tm=6#Attaching_events_to_proxies).
Another possibility may be to invert the direction of the event: In your details presenter, fire an event which requests data from the overview presenter.
However, when using the same data across multiple presenters, then it may be a good idea to keep the data in a central model: Create a model class (#Singleton) and inject it everywhere you need it. Then you can make a lookup (by id) from that local model instead of asking the server. In this case, you don't need any events - just the id somewhere, e.g. as a place parameter, or even as a "currentItemId" in the model.
Based on the answer by #Chris Lercher, I used the ProxyEvent. The implementation details are as follows.
In my RequestEditPresenter (the details presenter), I implemented the event handler RequestEditHandler as in
public class RequestEditPresenter extendsPresenter<RequestEditPresenter.MyView, RequestEditPresenter.MyProxy> implements RequestEditHandler{
then in the same RequestEditPresenter override the method in the RequestEditHandler as in
#Override
#ProxyEvent
public void onRequestEdit(RequestEditEvent event) {
getView().setModelToView(event.getRequestModel());
...various other initiation process...
placeManager.revealPlace(new PlaceRequest(NameTokens.initiationedit));
}
Since the Details presenter was a Place, I used the placeManager. For presenters that do not have a NameToken, just call the forceReveal() method
I have a window with a search form at the top and grid at the bottom.
User can enter values in the search form and click button - Get Records.
At the click of this button, I load the store of the grid by passing the values in form fields as parameters in following way:
store.load({
params:{
key1:Ext.getCmp('field1').getValue();
}
});
I tried giving parameters in the store proxy itself, but it unfortunately always takes up initial values (values when the form is rendered) and not the latest one entered by the users in the form fields. Following is the method I used for assigning values to params while creating the store:
extraParams:{
key1:Ext.getCmp('field1').getValue();
}
I wanted to seek guidance at two things:
a. While defining a store, can I ensure that store takes latest/current values from the form fields before querying server, so that I don't have to provide these values while calling load function?
This becomes more necessary as I have a paging toolbar at the bottom which carries a refresh button (along with next, last, previous, first icons for navigation).
Now, whenever user clicks at refresh (or any navigation icon), the store gets loaded without the query parameters.
Thus the second thing is:
b. If the answer of 'a' is that - Pass the latest values to parameters manually when calling load function - then how can I write the handler for 'refresh' button and navigation icons (that is, next, last, previous and first) in the paging toolbar, so that I can pass the latest form values to load function.
Thanks for any help in advance.
PS: I am using ExtJS 4.
yourStore.on('beforeload',function(store, operation,eOpts){
operation.params={
status:cmbStatus.getValue(),
value:txtBuscarPor.getValue(),
empresa:'saasd',
app:'dsads'
};
},this);
Related to your question (b) (and because you especially asked for this in the comments section):
I see only one standard way to hook into the PagingToolbar button handlers which is very limited.
Ext.toolbar.Paging fires a 'beforechange' event before it actually changes the current page. See API docs. A listener that returns false will stop the page change.
All other methods require extending Ext classes which wouldn't be a problem if the ComboBox would make it easier to use your own implementation of BoundList (which is the class that renders the dropdown) or pass through config parameters to BoundList resp. the paging toolbar.
I tried to bring this lack of flexibility up on the Ext message board once but was pretty much ignored.
A possible solution for this is to use 'beforeload' event of the store and provide the list of parameters in it. This way, whenever the store is loaded, then its beforeload event is fired and the values picked up are always the latest. Hope this helps someone looking for something similar.
OK, let's start with the Html.Textbox. It is supposed to contain text read from a file. The file read is based on what the user picks from a dropdown list.
The first time it is fine. The user picks a value from the dropdown list. The controller uses that value to read some text from a file, and returns that text to the view via the view model. Everything is fine.
THen the user picks another value from the dropdown list. The controller reads a new value from a file and returns it via the view model. Debugging to the LINE BEFORE THE HTML.TEXTBOX is set in the view shows that the model contains the correct value. However, the textbox itself still shows the PREVIOUS value when the page displays!
If I switch from Html.Textbox to a plain input, type="text" html control, everything works fine. That's not so hard, but the same thing happens with my dropdown list -- I can't set the selected value in code. It always reverts to whatever was chosen last. Rendering a "select" tag with a dynamically-generated option list is a pain. I would love to be able to use Html.Dropdown.
What am I missing here?? This is such a simple thing in webforms!
When you post a form, the values that are posted are put into ModelState. When the HtmlHelper renders an html iunput element, e.g. Html.TextBoxFor(x => x.FirstName), it'll search various locations to get the value for the textbox... ModelState is before ViewData.Model in the list of locations. So there for, the previously posted value will appear in your textbox.
To fix this you could clear the ModelState value or update the ModelState value. BUT I would kinda view that as a hacky way of getting around the problem.
The real issue has more to do with the flow of the posts and requests. I would personally look into that and maybe implement the PRG (Post Redirect Get) pattern.
HTHs,
Charles
Following on from what Charles/Charlino said:
Model binding updates the ModelState object, which contains validation and model binding errors that are collected during model binding.
Inside an action method, model binding has occurred already to update the model, and generated the ModelState object. If you now update the value on the model inside the action, you must also manually update the model state (since the helpers use it to generate their HTML). Below is an example:
model.CaptchaIsValid = CaptchaService.ValidateAndExpireCaptcha(model.CaptchaAttempt);
if (!model.CaptchaIsValid)
{
ModelState.AddModelError("CaptchaAttempt", "Incorrect - please try again");
}
// I'll clear the value on each attempt, to force them to re-enter a CAPTCHA.
model.CaptchaAttempt = string.Empty;
// Since I updated the model, I must create a new ValueProvider result...
ValueProviderResult clearedValue = new ValueProviderResult(
model.CaptchaAttempt,
model.CaptchaAttempt,
CultureInfo.CurrentCulture);
// ... and update the ModelState's value.
ModelState.SetModelValue("CaptchaAttempt", clearedValue);
The biggest issue I see here is that you are trying to do a postback within MVC. That model is really not supported, and is actually way more trouble than it is worth (as it seems you are finding out). I would recommend using Ajax to update the contents of the dropdown dynamically.