I am looking at the HDIV framework to implement it in my Grails application. Looks like the framework is more user friendly to Struts/java based applications. They do say it can be configured on other frameworks. This is what it exactly says:
It is possible to use HDIV in applications that don’t use Struts 1.x, Struts 2.x, Spring MVC or JSTL, but in this case it is necessary to modify the application (JSP pages).
I see that we need to modify the editable and non editable data being sent to the server (one of the strategies is to cypher code the hidden field and add a state parameter to link urls.)
And in the response we get back this data and use a validate() function to do integrity checks.
The sample grails-HDIV project on GITHUB is really basic with no details.
Has anyone implemented it on grails?
Thanks
Priyank
I've just written a plugin for this very thing. I'll see if my company will let me release it and if so I'll inform you.
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How do I implement the CSFR security enhancement in my existing Grails project? I have read that I have to use token in form and modify the query string. I do not think it is best solution because in my project there are a lot of submit forms and many controllers.
The fact is you are going to have to change the way you submit forms and add in the token to each of the forms and change your controllers to check the token. If you want CSFR protection you'll have to touch all of those places.
Fortunately Grails offers useToken and withForm to help take care of the implementation for you. You just have to put it in where you want it.
You can read more about this in the documentation.
I have developed some MVC applications by using Entity Framework code first approach and now I am developing a new application that will also use web services for mobile applications that we will create. So, I have trouble about the issues below. Could you clarify me please one by one regarding to the issues?
Which web service technology should I use i.e. Web API, WCF, etc? (I am using MVC5 and EF version 6 in my project)
Can I use the same CRUD methods for my web application and for web services? If so, which modifications should be made on the methods and on the other fields i.e. models, etc?
For a current MVC application where EF code first approach was used, is it better to create a new methods for web services or should the current methods be updated by adding ability to support also web services?
Thanks in advance...
I highly recommend to use Commands and Queries. It's covered in this and this articles.
The Command is simple DTO object, and it could be easily sent over the network. In this case you have control over the fields and behaviour you want to make public.
Because commands are simple data containers without behavior, it is
very easy to serialize them (using the XmlSerializer for instance) or
send them over the wire (using WCF for instance), which makes it not
only easy to queue them for later processing, but ot also makes it
very easy to log them in an audit trail- yet another reason to
separate data and behavior. All these features can be added, without
changing a single line of code in the application (except perhaps a
line at the start-up of the application).
I am a new user to Orbeon. I am attempting to integrate Orbeon with another e-form type application that does not support mobile viewing. is it possible to pass an XML file to Form Runner to open and populate a pre-built form with the values from the xml file for editing? We would subsequently send the updated XML back to our other application and we already have this functionality built. if possible what is the best way to accomplish? I am still digesting all of the Orbeon knowledge and flow of the application, so be gentle =p
I haven't tried this, but it should be possible using the Persistence API.
You'll also need to configure access to the API. For testing purposes, I used the properties in the Backward compatibility section to completely open up API access.
ive currently been developing a Java EE project, using regular web services and backbone.js for my front end. (As i like things being loaded/added to the page, without the page refreshing (async, backbone)).
I wanted to find out if anyone has used grails along with backbone and what their experience is?
Grails would be for server side stuff, and backbone for handling the front end.
Or can grails do this itself. IE, with grails, can you dynamically load stuff onto a page without refreshing. For example, a todo list.
Is it difficult to add backbone to grails?
I've used Backbone + Grails, for two projects. And didn't see any problem, absolutelly.
Backbone is client-side only framework, very flexible, developed with idea that it should be compatible with nearly all server-side stuff. It just expecting RESTful/RESTful-like server side API. And also, you can alway use your own server-client transport implementation, see Backbone.sync (but I'm sure, you don't need it for standard Grails app)
Grails, at other hand, it very flexible server-side framework (mostly server-side). By using Grails you can make RESTful api w/o any problem. Basically you just need to respond with JSON, that's enough.
PS you can also use Grails tags for ajax, like remoteLink and plain jQuery, but Backbone is much more powerful (and easy to learn)
It's not that complex. You can try following this tutorial.
It's a Grails 2.x & BackboneJS project, which utilises the resources plugin.
The tutorial link provided by #chanwit is not working but you can use github link of same project.
I'm working with my team to create an enterprise level web application with Grails, but I don't see any "out of the box" solution to dealing with browser history when using grails with AJAX. Can someone point me to some documentation so that I can nail this?
Thanks a ton.
Grails is predominantly a server-side framework. All it provides in terms of client-side functionality are some tags to make it easy to call the server via AJAX. I'm not aware of any functionality in the core framework to support using the back/forward buttons when AJAX calls are made.
You might find something in a plugin, but I doubt it. Your best bet is to look for this functionality in whichever JS library you're using (YUI, JQuery, Dojo, etc.)
Typically this is done by changing the location.hash property on the page. This corresponds to a string you can add after the current url with a #. Adding or modifying this part of the URL will keep you on the same page, but add an additional history entry.
The jQuery BBQ plugin is a very useful framework to manage the hash. It contains a number of useful methods to manage the hash property as key/value pairs, the same way the regular URL query string works.