[Catalyst] Catalyst - any good AJAX tutes?

Jonathan Rockway jon at jrock.us
Fri Mar 6 18:03:32 GMT 2009


* On Fri, Mar 06 2009, Francesc Romà i Frigolé wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 6:43 AM, <kakimoto at tpg.com.au> wrote:
>
>     hello there,
>
>      I would like to use AJAX in my catalyst app. Any good references/tutes
>     to recommend?
>
>     thanks.
>
>     K. akimoto
>
> Hello,
>
> Depends on what do you want to do with AJAX. For example, if you want to do forms, I
> think it is a bit more complicated than suggested in previous replies.
>
> Ideally, for forms, you'd like to have some modules that magically initialize your
> forms with data from your model, then render a nice form with your favorite JS toolkit,
> using  AJAX for things like auto-complete with data from your model, validate the forms
> both on the client and on the server, and then update your model with the user
> submitted data.
>
> So far, I haven't found anything that does this for my tools of choice: DBIx::Class +
> Dojo

We use JSORB for forms.

http://search.cpan.org/~stevan/JSORB-0.01/

Obviously, you are responsible for writing the JSORB endpoints, but
that's just a Simple Matter Of Metaprogramming (and is better than
fighting with form builders that don't quite work right).

Regards,
Jonathan Rockway

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