I'm not sure how this is done. I could hard code the route I'm trying to use, but I'd like to do this the right way.
I have a dropdown that needs to load a new page on change. Here's basically how I'm trying to do it (I've tried a few variations of this):
@getRoute(value: String) = @{
routes.Accounts.transactions(Long.valueOf(value))
}
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
$("select[name='product']").change(function() {
location.href = @getRoute($(this).val());
}).focus();
$('a.view.summary').attr('href', "@routes.Accounts.index()" + "?selectedAccountKey=" + $('select[name=product]').val());
});
</script>
This produces a identifier expected but 'val' found
exception. I also tried surrounding it in quotes, but that causes a [NumberFormatException: For input string: "$(this).val()"]
So how the heck do I insert a value from JavaScript into a Scala function?
Edit
Here's my solution, inspired by the accepted answer. This dropdown is defined in a tag that's made for reuse by different components, and the base URL is different for each component. The way to achieve this was to pass a function that generates a URL based on an account key into the dropdown:
@(accountList: List[models.MemberAccount],
selectedAccountKey: Long,
urlGenerator: (Long) => Html
)
<select name="product">
@for(account <- accountList) {
@if(account.accountKey == selectedAccountKey) {
<option selected="selected" value="@urlGenerator(account.accountKey)">@account.description (@account.startDate)</option>
} else {
<option value="@urlGenerator(account.accountKey)">@account.description (@account.startDate)</option>
}
}
</select>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
$('select[name=product]').change(function() {
location.href = $(this).val();
});
});
</script>
Then you can define a function like this to pass in:
@transactionsUrl(memberAccountKey: Long) = {
@routes.Accounts.transactions(memberAccountKey)
}
@accountsDropdown(transactionDetails.getMemberAccounts(), transactionDetails.getMemberAccountKey(), transactionsUrl)