Grail partial view for ajax request - grails

<g:if test="${!request?.xhr}">
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta name="layout" content="home">
</head>
<body>
<div class="row-fluid">
</g:if>
AJAX
<g:if test="${!request?.xhr}">
</div>
</body>
</html>
</g:if>
I get error: Grails tag [sitemesh:captureBody] was not closed.
In Config.groovy I set grails.views.gsp.sitemesh.preprocess = false but this doesn't help.
What way to use partial view with if statement.

A better way to handle this in grails is to wrap a template containing the main content. For example:
//_body.gsp
AJAX
//view.gsp
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta name="layout" content="home">
</head>
<body>
<div class="row-fluid">
<g:render template="body">
</div>
</body>
</html>
Then your controller can render the whole view on a regular request, or just the body on AJAX.

You can check request.xhr in the controller, and determine to render a template or a string based on the results of that if statement.

Related

Html.Partial and #section MVC

What's the difference between #Html.Partial, #Html.Section and #section ? When should I use each of them?
#Html.Partial is to split the page into parts. The page will be incomplete without filling in the part.
#Html.Section is an (often optional) portion, usually defined in layouts, that inheritors can add content into. For example, if they want to add extra scripts to the page, there's a "scripts" section at the end of the default layout that allows pages to inject it at the end of the content.
#section is just defining the content for an #Html.Section in the child page.
For example:
<!-- layout page. -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
</head>
<body>
<div class="container body-content">
Layout content.<br/>
#RenderBody()
</div>
#RenderSection("scripts", required: false)
</body>
</html>
...
<!-- child page -->
#section scripts{
<script src="/Scripts/jquery.signalR-2.2.1.min.js"></script>
}
<div>Child content.</div>
<div>Partial content here: #Html.Partial("~/Views/PartialContent.cshtml")</div>
...
<!-- partial content in PartialContent.cshtml -->
Hello!
The result would be something like:
Layout content.
Child content.
Partial content here: Hello!

Overloading blocks with dust.js for nested templates

I have a layout called layouts/master.dust
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>{+title /}</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/app.css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<h3>This is the master header</h3>
{+body /}
</div>
</body>
</html>
I then have a template called index.dust:
{>"layouts/master" /}
{<body}
<h1>{#pre type="content" key="greeting"/}</h1>
{/body}
Predictably, that outputs
This is the master header
Hello, Alex!
(when supplied with the relevant json)
My issue is, I'm creating another "nested" or "child" template: layouts/admin.dust that looks like:
{>"layouts/master" /}
<h4>This is an admin header</h4>
{+body /}
and a template adminIndex.dust that uses layouts/admin/dust like this:
{>"layouts/admin" /}
{<body}
<p>This is some stuff for admin</p>
{/body}
My problem, is the output is:
This is the master header
This is some stuff for admin
This is an admin header
This is some stuff for admin
So, my {+body} block is being called twice, and not overridden by my nested template
Is there a way to do that?
Edit
As per my comment, a more 'realistic' example of admin.dust would be:
{>"layouts/master" /}
<h4>This is an admin header</h4>
<div style="float: left; width: 200px;">
<strong>left nav</strong>
<ul>
<li>Link one</li>
<li>Link two</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div style="float: right">
{+ body /}
</div>
Where by in templates that use the admin layout, their body is in a div floated right (for example)
Your {+body} block is being overridden by your {<body} inline partial in your adminIndex.dust template. The contents of an inline partial (in your case <p>This is some stuff for admin</p>) will be inserted wherever a block is found in your template. If you are hoping to have the master header be replaced by the admin header, you would need your templates to look like this:
layouts/master.dust
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>{+title /}</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/app.css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
{+header}<h3>This is the master header</h3>{/header}
{+body /}
</div>
</body>
</html>
layouts/admin.dust
{>"layouts/master" /}
{+header}<h4>This is an admin header</h4>{/header}
adminIndex.dust requires no change.
Note: I have added a {+header} block to layouts/master.dust with a default value, and added a {header} inline partial and removed the {+body} block from layouts/admin.dust. This will output:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title></title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/app.css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<h3>This is the admin header</h3>
<p>This is some stuff for admin</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Flash message contents lost in layout

This is the scenario:
I have layout : main.gsp
and have a page on which this layout is applied: homepage.gsp
I have a div in main.gsp where I display flash message if any.
Now,
when controller sends any flash message, its available in homepage.gsp but when layout is applied on it and page is displayed, flash message is lost.
I want flash message to be available in layout code.
Again, it would be preferable if I need not add any code to homepage.gsp as there are many such pages where controller can return flash message.
How do I handle this?
Any help much appreciated.
This is the code I will used, I have tested and it work.
main.gsp
<body>
<div id="grailsLogo" role="banner"><img src="${resource(dir: 'images', file: 'grails_logo.png')}" alt="Grails"/></div>
<div>
<g:if test="${flash.message }">
${flash.message }
</g:if>
</div>
<g:layoutBody/>
<div class="footer" role="contentinfo"></div>
<div id="spinner" class="spinner" style="display:none;"><g:message code="spinner.alt" default="Loading…"/></div>
<r:layoutResources />
</body>
Controller:
package com.mtsinai
class EmployeeController {
def index() {
flash.message = 'Welcome world'
}
}
index.gsp
<%# page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" %>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"/>
<meta name="layout" content="main"/>
<title>Insert title here</title>
</head>
<body>
<div class="body">
</div>
</body>
</html>
Note that the flash message will be displayed on top of the body or the page that will be rendered

T4MVC causing incorrect URL

I am trying to generate URL using T4MVC. Here's the view
#{
Layout = null;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
<title>Index</title>
</head>
<body>
<div>
Click
</div>
</body>
</html>
Not sure why the link is being generated as /~/Views/Shared/ShowDetails.cshtml/
You should not be passing a View name to Action(). See section 2.2.2 in the doc. e.g. try something like:
<%= Url.Action(MVC.Dinners.Delete(Model.DinnerID))%>

using 3 layouts on same gsp page

this is edit of my question that was first how to apply 2 layouts in the same gsp page but now i got problem with 3 layouts :) :
I am fairly new to all that css and layout stuff and i'm using grails 2.0 version
i have the following moduls in my problem:
1. main.gsp layout which basically have a nice header with company logo for all pages.
2. mainTabPanle.gsp layouts which basically contain some main tabs all pages should have
3. reportTab.gsp layout which basically contain nice report tabs and short javascript code to manipulate chosen tab color that all reports gsp pages should have.
what i am trying to do is to use this reportTab layout in all the reports gsp pages.
so this is what i got so far:
main.gsp:
<!doctype html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="${resource(dir: 'css', file: 'main.css')}"type="text/css">
<g:layoutHead/>
<r:layoutResources />
</head>
<body style="height:100%">
<div>some nice header in here </div>
<g:layoutBody/>
<r:layoutResources />
</body>
</html>
mainTabPanle.gsp (also located in layout folder)
<g:applyLayout name="main">
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<g:layoutHead/>
<r:layoutResources />
</head>
<body>
<div>some main tabs here </div>
<g:layoutBody/>
</body>
<script type="text/javascript">
//script to manipulate main tabs
</script>
<r:layoutResources />
</body>
</html>
</g:applyLayout>
reportTabPanel.gsp:
<g:applyLayout name="mainTabPanel">
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<g:layoutHead/>
<r:layoutResources />
</head>
<body>
<div>some reports tab panel </div>
<g:layoutBody/>
</body>
<script type="text/javascript">
//some script to manipulate report tab item
</script>
<r:layoutResources />
</body>
</html>
</g:applyLayout>
and now im using in moneyreport.gsp header the following line:
<meta name="layout" content="reportTabPanel" />
what i want to see is the nice header and the maintabsPanel and the reportTabPanel but all i see is the body of moneyreport.gsp
the weird thing is that if i use this:
<meta name="layout" content="mainTabPanel" />
inside moneyreport.gsp i see mainTab and the body of moneyreport.gsp as expected.
what am i doing wrong? i cannot use 3 layout on the same page?
thanks for your help guys ...
You can apply 2 layouts on the same page. In order to apply a different layout in a layout file, you need to use the applyLayout tag. Your reportTab should be something like this:
<g:applyLayout name="main">
<!doctype html>
<head>
<g:layoutHead/>
<r:layoutResources />
</head>
<body>
<div> some nice tabs here </div>
<g:layoutBody/>
</body>
<script type="text/javascript">
few line script handling chosen tab color in here
</script>
<r:layoutResources />
</body>
</html>
</g:applyLayout>
The best way is using templates because you can use as many as you want. I have this main HTML where I want to include different templates, like a menu and a generic content page:
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"/>
<title>
<g:layoutTitle default="Loto Tasks"/>
</title>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"/>
<g:layoutHead/>
</head>
<!-- Including menu -->
<g:render template="/templates/menu" />
<!-- Including generic content page -->
<g:render template="/templates/genericcontent" />
<g:layoutBody/>
</body>
</html>
I have a package named templates inside a views package, and inside templates I have two files, _menu.gsp and _genericcontent.gsp. The _genericcontent.gsp file looks like the following simple code. I could see that this is a little confusing if I insert a <head> with imports to other files, but you can import in the main file and it works:
_genericcontent.gsp
<div id="mainSearchPanel" class="searchPanel">
Ă—
Filter panel here
</div>
<div id="search-icon" class="animate__animated animate__heartBeat animate__infinite animate__slower">
<i class="fas fa-search fa-2x"></i>
</div>
first thanks for your reply Anuj !
it kind of work but in a wrong way cuz i was getting weird html source:
i was getting 2 headers and 2 body tags so basically grails just copy paste all the layout
together and that wasn't good html page even that the browser display it right!
i found what i needed and that is simply using templates!
for example i have file called "_mainHeader.gsp" which look like this:
<!-- this is my main header for all gsp pages -->
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en" class="no-js">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">
<title>IntentIQ Management System</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="${resource(dir: 'css', file: 'main.css')}"type="text/css">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="${resource(dir:'images/myImg',file:'favicon.ico')}" type="image/x-icon">
and from all pages i can use those lines like for example in page1.gsp:
<g:render template="/templates/mainHeader" />
</head>
<body>
<h1> this is page1 with header from mainHeader.gsp template </h1>
</body>
</html>
pay attention for who ever who read this to:
1.temmplate file name are with '_' character
2.the closing body tag in "page1.gsp" is closing the body tag started at "_mainHeader.gsp" file.
so basically this tempaltes stuff is kind of copy paste of parts of gsp pages and its working great!
thanks for your reply never the less!

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