Recently I have been working on upgrading a big web application that was using wicket 1.4.18 to 6.2. We had a situation where we would create javascript variables to keep track of positioning within a drag and drop list. This is just the wicket side of the code since the js has always worked and has not been changed.
ListItem.add(new AbstractDefaultAjaxBehavior()
{
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
@Override
public void onComponentTag(ComponentTag tag)
{
tag.put("ondrop", "var value = $(ui.item[0]).attr('hiddenvalue');"
+ this.getCallbackScript());
}
@Override
public final CharSequence getCallbackUrl()
{
return super.getCallbackUrl() + "&hiddenvalue' + value + '";
}
}
However the problem I am running into is the javascript variables are not resolving to values and are now being taken as literal strings (Ex: 'value' instead of 5) in the getCallbackUrl. This was not the case in wicket 1.4.18 and I don't believe this problem originated in our migration to 1.5.8.
In the end we just want to be able to pull the value out using
@Override
protected void respond(AjaxRequestTarget target)
{
getRequest().getRequestParameters().getParameterValue("hiddenvalue");
}
Any advice on this? I hope I have provided enough information.
Thanks in advance for any help. Some of this is a little beyond my knowledge and can be intimidating not knowing where to look.
Wicket Ajax has been completely rewritten for Wicket 6. See this page for a detailed description.
In your case, you should use the new AjaxRequestAttributes like that:
@Override
protected void updateAjaxAttributes(final AjaxRequestAttributes attributes) {
super.updateAjaxAttributes(attributes);
attributes.getExtraParameters().put("hiddenvalue", "value");
}
Retrieval of the value from the request still works the same as before.
@Override
protected void respond(AjaxRequestTarget target)
{
getRequest().getRequestParameters().getParameterValue("hiddenvalue");
}
Another cleaner approach is to use the callback function
AbstractDefaultAjaxBehavior ajaxBehavior = new AbstractDefaultAjaxBehavior() {
@Override
protected void respond(AjaxRequestTarget target) {
String param1Value = getRequest().getRequestParameters().getParameterValue(AJAX_PARAM1_NAME).toString();
String param2Value = getRequest().getRequestParameters().getParameterValue(AJAX_PARAM2_NAME).toString();
System.out.println("Param 1:" + param1Value + "Param 2:" + param2Value);
}
@Override
public void renderHead(Component component, IHeaderResponse response) {
super.renderHead(component, response);
String callBackScript = getCallbackFunction(CallbackParameter.explicit(AJAX_PARAM1_NAME), CallbackParameter.explicit(AJAX_PARAM2_NAME)).toString();
callBackScript = "sendToServer="+callBackScript+";";
response.render(OnDomReadyHeaderItem.forScript(callBackScript));
}
};
add(ajaxBehavior);
Define a variable for the function in your javascript
var sendToServer;
It will be initialized on dom ready event by wicket with the callback function
Call sendToServer(x,y) from javascript to pass the parameters to the server.
private static final String MY_PARAM = "myparam";
public static class SampleCallbackBehavior extends AbstractDefaultAjaxBehavior {
@Override
public void renderHead(Component component, IHeaderResponse response) {
super.renderHead(component, response);
response.render(OnDomReadyHeaderItem.forScript("var myfunction : " + getCallbackFunction(CallbackParameter.explicit(MY_PARAM))));
}
@Override
protected void respond(AjaxRequestTarget target) {
StringValue paramValue = getComponent().getRequest().getRequestParameters().getParameterValue(MY_PARAM);
//TODO handle callback
}
}
After this, you should only call the function from javascript
myfunction("paramValue");