that works only if your controller accepts basically any data (very "low
barrier" on validation). My usecase scenario didn't ever involve the user
not knowing it's submitting data, and I'd treat "half-filled forms" with a
dedicated controller to clean/purge/mark_as_unreliable data what's coming
in.......but that's me with my usual scenario.
The underlying concept in "developing" is that every app has its own
goals... in principle, if you can live with "whatever data the user had the
time to fill", there's nothing wrong with your approach.
On Sunday, February 1, 2015 at 4:27:12 AM UTC+1, lillian wrote:
>
>
> Yeah that's basically what I came up with between posting and seeing your
> reply, except I'm letting the code in my controller do the actual db update
> (its that same code used if the user had clicked on submit) and then I
> redirect based on what UI element called submit (submit button? do the
> normal thing. Logout button? logout. etc.)
>
> Does that make sense? It works but I'm wondering if there might be issues
> I'm not aware of. Kinda new to this type of programming :-/
>
> On Friday, January 30, 2015 at 1:31:08 PM UTC-8, Niphlod wrote:
>>
>> the gist of it should be something like
>>
>> $(function() {
>> $('a#thelogoutbutton').on('click', function(e) {
>> e.preventDefault();
>> if (code_to_submit_the_form() == 'everythingwentwell') {
>> window.href = this.href;
>> } else {
>> managefailure();
>> //optionally window.href = this.href
>> }
>> })
>> })
>>
>> as a general rule, it's not a "polite thing" to do to block on something
>> if the user presses "i want to go out of here", so be sure to do it as
>> switfly as possible (i.e. don't require a strict check on
>> code_to_submit_the_form() and make it happen in under a half second).
>>
>
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