Yes, it would be something like <Require feature="shindig.xhrwrapper" />
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Zhenhua Guo <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Jacobo > See my comments below. > > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Jacobo Tarrio <[email protected]> wrote: > > No, that will not work. makeRequest requests and responses come in their > > own format, which YUI will not be able to use. > Actually, we wrote several functions to parse the returned data and > extract useful information. > > > If YUI uses XmlHttpRequest to perform those requests, you may try using > the > > shindig.xhrwrapper feature, which intercepts the XmlHttpRequest calls and > > emulates them using makeRequest. If it uses JSONP, this will not be > useful, > > but then you would probably need no extra special hacks to make JSONP > work > > anyway :) > Thanks!. I will look into shindig.xhrwrapper feature. Should I add > element "<Require feature=.../>" to my gadget xml file? > > > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Zhenhua Guo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> We are building science portal using Shindig and converting existing > >> web app frontends to gadgets. Those web app frontends access backend > >> services. To convert them to gadgets, the usual way is to rewrite > >> those calls using gadgets.io.makeRequest. The problem is that this is > >> not always desired. For example, a web app uses YUI library to create > >> a table and populate it with data loaded from remote server. The data > >> loading is managed by YUI. So to rewrite it requires non-trivial work > >> (data loading, table update, auto update, etc). > >> Our current solution is to construct makeRequest URL directly > >> (gadges/makeRequest?url=...) and give the URL to YUI data loading > >> function. Of course this is a hack instead elegant solution. > >> > >> My question is whether I can use getProxyUrl and send requests there. > >> I know makeRequest and getProxyUrl are handled by different servlets. > >> What are the main differences of their processing logic? > >> > >> Thanks > >> > >> Gerald > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Jacobo Tarrío | http://jacobo.tarrio.org/ > > > -- Jacobo Tarrío | http://jacobo.tarrio.org/
