AJAX Form Multiple Zone Update

This page demonstrates an AJAX-enabled Form that also updates another zone on success.
First Name:
Last Name:
Birthday: [Show]



Welcome Humpty Dumpty.
Welcome Humpty Dumpty. Your birthday is Thu Jan 01 10:00:00 EST 1970
References: Form, Ajax and Zones, Zone, Request, AjaxResponseRenderer, @Component, @InjectComponent, @Inject.

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AjaxFormMultipleZoneUpdate.tml


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<!-- We need a doctype to allow us to use special characters like &nbsp; 
     We use a "strict" DTD to make IE follow the alignment rules. -->
     
<html xmlns:t="http://tapestry.apache.org/schema/tapestry_5_3.xsd">
<head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="${context:css/examples/js.css}"/>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>AJAX Form Multiple Zone Update</h1>

    <noscript class="js-required">
        ${message:javascript_required}
    </noscript>     

    This page demonstrates an AJAX-enabled Form that also updates another zone on success.
    
    <div class="eg">
        <t:zone t:id="formZone" id="formZone">
            <form t:id="ajaxForm" t:type="form" t:zone="^">
            
                First Name: <input t:type="TextField" t:id="firstName"/><br/>
                Last Name: <input t:type="TextField" t:id="lastName"/><br/>
                Birthday: <input t:type="datefield" t:id="birthday"/><br/><br/>
                
                <input type="submit" value="Accept"/><br/><br/>
                
                <t:errors/>
    
                Welcome ${name}.
                
            </form>
        </t:zone>
    </div>
    <div class="eg">
        <t:zone t:id="outZone" id="outZone">
            Welcome ${name}. Your birthday is ${birthday}
        </t:zone>
    </div>
    
    References: 
    <a href="http://tapestry.apache.org/5.3.7/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/corelib/components/Form.html">Form</a>, 
    <a href="http://tapestry.apache.org/ajax-and-zones.html">Ajax and Zones</a>, 
    <a href="http://tapestry.apache.org/5.3.7/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/corelib/components/Zone.html">Zone</a>, 
    <a href="http://tapestry.apache.org/5.3.7/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/services/Request.html">Request</a>, 
    <a href="http://tapestry.apache.org/5.3.7/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/services/ajax/AjaxResponseRenderer.html">AjaxResponseRenderer</a>, 
    <a href="http://tapestry.apache.org/5.3.7/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/annotations/Component.html">@Component</a>, 
    <a href="http://tapestry.apache.org/5.3.7/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/annotations/InjectComponent.html">@InjectComponent</a>, 
    <a href="http://tapestry.apache.org/5.3.7/apidocs/org/apache/tapestry5/ioc/annotations/Inject.html">@Inject</a>.<br/><br/> 

    <a t:type="pagelink" t:page="Index" href="#">Home</a><br/><br/>

    <t:sourcecodedisplay src="/web/src/main/java/jumpstart/web/pages/examples/ajax/AjaxFormMultipleZoneUpdate.tml"/>
    <t:sourcecodedisplay src="/web/src/main/java/jumpstart/web/pages/examples/ajax/AjaxFormMultipleZoneUpdate.java"/>
    <t:sourcecodedisplay src="/web/src/main/java/jumpstart/web/css/examples/js.css"/>
</body>
</html>

AjaxFormMultipleZoneUpdate.java


package jumpstart.web.pages.examples.ajax;

import java.util.Date;

import org.apache.tapestry5.annotations.Component;
import org.apache.tapestry5.annotations.InjectComponent;
import org.apache.tapestry5.annotations.Property;
import org.apache.tapestry5.corelib.components.DateField;
import org.apache.tapestry5.corelib.components.Form;
import org.apache.tapestry5.corelib.components.TextField;
import org.apache.tapestry5.corelib.components.Zone;
import org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.annotations.Inject;
import org.apache.tapestry5.services.Request;
import org.apache.tapestry5.services.ajax.AjaxResponseRenderer;

public class AjaxFormMultipleZoneUpdate {

    // Screen fields

    @Property
    private String firstName;

    @Property
    private String lastName;

    @Property
    private Date birthday;

    // Generally useful bits and pieces

    @Component
    private Form ajaxForm;

    @Component(id = "firstName")
    private TextField firstNameField;

    @Component(id = "lastName")
    private TextField lastNameField;

    @Component(id = "birthday")
    private DateField birthdayField;

    @InjectComponent
    private Zone formZone;

    @InjectComponent
    private Zone outZone;
    
    @Inject
    private Request request;

    @Inject
    private AjaxResponseRenderer ajaxResponseRenderer;

    // The code

    void setupRender() {
        if (firstName == null && lastName == null && birthday == null) {
            firstName = "Humpty";
            lastName = "Dumpty";
            birthday = new Date(0);
        }
    }

    void onValidateFromAjaxForm() {

        if (firstName == null || firstName.trim().equals("")) {
            ajaxForm.recordError(firstNameField, "First Name is required.");
        }
        if (lastName == null || lastName.trim().equals("")) {
            ajaxForm.recordError(lastNameField, "Last Name is required.");
        }
        if (birthday == null) {
            ajaxForm.recordError(birthdayField, "Birthday is required.");
        }
        else {
            Date now = new Date();
            if (birthday.after(now)) {
                ajaxForm.recordError(birthdayField, "Birthday must be in the past.");
            }
        }
    }

    void onSuccess() {
        if (request.isXHR()) {
            ajaxResponseRenderer.addRender(formZone).addRender(outZone);
        }
    }

    void onFailure() {
        if (request.isXHR()) {
            ajaxResponseRenderer.addRender(formZone);
        }
    }

    public String getName() {
        return firstName + " " + lastName;
    }

    public Date getTime() {
        return new Date();
    }

}

js.css


body            { font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; color: #333;
                    line-height: 17px; }
h1              { font-size: 26px; line-height: 20px; } /* For IE 7 */
form            { margin: 0; }

.eg             { margin: 20px 0; padding: 20px; color: #888; 
                    border: 1px solid #ddd; border-radius: 4px; -webkit-border-radius: 4px; -mox-border-radius: 4px; }

a               { text-decoration: none; color: #3D69B6; }
a:hover         { text-decoration: underline; }

/* For javascript examples. */
.js-required    { color: red; display: block; margin-bottom: 14px; }
.js-recommended { color: red; display: block; margin-bottom: 14px; }

.grid           { border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; border: 1px solid #dddddd; font-size: 13px; }
.grid tr.odd        { background-color: #f8f8f8; }
.grid tr:hover      { background-color: #eeeeee; }
.grid th        { padding: 3px 5px; text-align: left; width: 130px; border: 1px solid #dddddd; 
                    font-weight: normal; background-color: #eeeeee; 
                    filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#fbfbfb', endColorstr='#e4e4e4'); /* for IE */
                    background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#fbfbfb), to(#e4e4e4)); /* for webkit browsers */
                    background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #fbfbfb, #e4e4e4); /* for firefox 3.6+ */ }
.grid td        { padding: 3px 5px; text-align:left; }