what's the partial field details code look like?
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Angel Robert Marquez <
[email protected]> wrote:
> I admire your persistence. Don't give up.
>
> Is jQ loaded when you view the output source?
>
> The extra data could be a row, as well as an image, you could toggle off
> and on as long as the tr had a unique tag in the output you could
> reference.
> .data-row {
> blah...
> }
>
> .data-row-hidden {
> hidden blah...
> }
>
> $('.data-row').click('.data-row-hidden').toggle('.data-row'); //it's not
> toggle it's css something to switch...
>
> <th>SORT</th>
> <tr class="data-row">You can see me!</tr>
> <tr class="data-row-hidden">I've been hiding BOO!</tr>
>
> I have to cut and paste your reply into a text editor and go over it line
> by line to get it. Do you come with a debugger?
>
> I think you need to instantiate a new object to hold your data is my
> initial thought....
>
> What did you google? I googled "[object XMLHttpRequest]"
>
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Trish <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> It's not the image that I'm concerned about coming from the server...
>> it's the data I want to present in the new row that will come from the
>> server. If I didn't need to find my object on click of the button, it
>> wouldn't be an issue, but I need to find the object referenced in the
>> row so I can dynamically create the data.
>>
>> Also, I do not believe this pertains to the plugin itself, the issue
>> occurs when I use the $.post function that is included with jQuery.
>> Even when I try an alert on the calls results, I get the [object
>> XMLHttpRequest] returned.
>>
>> Here's what I have so far that seems to at least present some HTML on
>> the screen (still haven't determined why it didn't work with my
>> earlier method)
>>
>> The original code called this:
>> oTable.fnOpen( nTr, fnFormatDetails(oTable, nTr), 'details' );
>>
>> oTable represents my table and nTr represents the row I'm working
>> with.
>> fnFormatDetails ina function that in the original case creates static
>> html... but this is where I was trying to hit the server with the
>> $.post call. This fnOpen function came with the DataTables plugin and
>> it appends a <tr></tr> below the referenced row with the content
>> coming from fnFormatDetails.
>>
>> This would return my new row, but the content would be "[object
>> XMLHttpRequest] " instead of the view content.
>>
>> I exhausted Google on this... I couldn't even find anything similar to
>> my issue. Which makes me thing I'm missing something small and
>> obvious.
>>
>> However... since I could not get this working... I opted to append the
>> row in my action. So, instead of calling the oTable.fnOpen function,
>> I just call $.post to my action. In the action, I write something
>> like this...
>> render :update do |page|
>>
>> page["#my_id"].after(escape_javascript(render :partial=>"field_details"))
>> end
>>
>> This appends my row beautifully, except the html returned seems to be
>> over-escaped by the escape_javascript method. For example, my html
>> close tags return as "<\/td>", so the tags never end up closing. But
>> if I don't escape it, I get a javascript error saying "r is null". I
>> believe it is failing on one of my </tr> tags.
>>
>> I appreciate any guidance you can give me on this. I have been trying
>> to solve this sorting issue for days, now, with various methods... and
>> just when I feel like I'm close, I run into a wall.
>>
>> Thank you so much for your help!
>> Trish
>>
>>
>>
>> On Aug 5, 9:33 pm, Angel Robert Marquez <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > Why hit the server again rather than have the initial response have the
>> css
>> > class for the returned image you want to toggle set to display: none and
>> > modify the ui control to toggle the css class?
>> >
>> > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Angel Robert Marquez <
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > [email protected]> wrote:
>> > > Do you want me to do all the research first and have the answers or do
>> it
>> > > out loud like we did last time?
>> >
>> > > I think the question might be better suited for the plugin developers.
>> >
>> > > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Trish <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > >> Okay, so I am very new to this jQuery stuff, and it seems like I'm
>> > >> just going round and round on this... so I'm hoping someone can help.
>> >
>> > >> I have a table that will have a image on each row that when click, it
>> > >> adds a row with more details below the current row. The details will
>> > >> all be pulled from rails.
>> >
>> > >> I am using the DataTables plugin for jQuery for my table and am
>> basing
>> > >> my code off of this example:
>> >
>> > >>http://datatables.net/examples/api/row_details.html
>> >
>> > >> The example adds the row without going to the server, so I have
>> > >> modified fnFormatDetails to hit the server.
>> >
>> > >> my modified code is this:
>> >
>> > >> function fnFormatDetails ( oTable, nTr )
>> > >> {
>> > >> return jQuery.post('<%= url_for :action=>"field_details" %>', {},
>> > >> null, 'html');
>> > >> }
>> >
>> > >> I have also tried multiple variations of this, and can't get anything
>> > >> to work.
>> >
>> > >> I am hitting my action just fine, and it is parsing the view (as seen
>> > >> with log statements), but when the row displays on the screen, I see:
>> >
>> > >> [object XMLHttpRequest]
>> >
>> > >> instead of the text. I have also tried just a plain
>> > >> render(:text=>"some text", :layout=>"false") in my action, and have
>> > >> the same results.
>> >
>> > >> All the documentation I see makes me believe that the $.post method
>> > >> should be returning html.
>> >
>> > >> I have viewed this with FireBug, and it sees the response as the text
>> > >> I gave.
>> >
>> > >> As a side note, I chose to use the $.post method instead of the $.get
>> > >> method because $.get was returning a 304 error. I get the 200 code
>> > >> for $.post.
>> >
>> > >> Also, I have tried this with both jQuery 1.4 and the jQuery instance
>> > >> provided with the plugin.
>> >
>> > >> Thanks in advance!
>> > >> Trish
>> >
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