Ninad Pundalik a écrit :
Hi All,
The start of the GSoC coding period is just around the corner, and I
would like to start writing some useful code as soon as possible. I
have a few questions before I start doing that though. In my
proposal, I have mentioned one of my tasks as writing functions that
will wrap the output of AJAX requests in well-formed XML. Over the
last few days, I have been trying to figure out how to do this.
Should I use output buffering at the start of an ajax request, read
the entire output buffer into a string variable and then construct
either a DOM or a SimpleXML object from that string when the request
ends? Or, is there a better way of doing this?
Hi Ninad,
In your deliverables you wrote:
"2. Functions that will wrap the output in well formed XML, so that
jQuery can correctly parse the response and insert the right content at
the right location in the page."
I guess that this would not be necessary if you use JSON?
Also, when I checked out the latest version from git, I could see that
a jQuery JSON plugin has been added in the js/jquery folder. If this
plugin is being used, should the output for AJAX requests be in JSON
instead of XML? I feel it would be a lot more easier to handle the
output in JSON rather than XML.
Indeed.
For the AJAX calls, do I use the jQuery's $.get/$.post/$.ajax methods
directly or should I build wrapper functions around them?
Please do not use wrappers that do nothing; as a bad example in PHP:
// I find cool to use my_echo('Hello');
function my_echo($message) {
echo $message;
}
Last, where should I put all the jQuery scripts that will be written
over the next few weeks in the tree? Should I keep it in a js/ajax
folder for the period of this summer, and then merge it later into the
js folder after the features have been sufficiently tested?
I suggest to put them under /js.
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Marc Delisle
http://infomarc.info