I'm running a sample jQueryMobile app that runs in PhoneGap. The problem is that it doesn't run the getJSON callback to retrieve data, shown below:
$( function()
{
$('#searchButton').click(function()
{
alert("search clicked"); <== this alert works
var url = "http://api.alternativeto.net/software/firefox?callback=?";
$.getJSON(url, function(data) <== this should be, but isn't being called
{
alert("function data called"); <== so this alert doesn't show.
} // end function (data)
); // end getJSON
alert("getJSON call completed"); <== and this alert works
} // end search click.function()
); // end $(
The "search clicked" and "getJSON call completed" alerts both work. The returned JSON I get from entering the url in a browser is valid.
The test code is from this URL:
http://wiki.phonegap.com/w/page/36868306/UI%20Development%20using%20jQueryMobile
Is there anything else I can check?
I don't believe you need the ?callback=? in your url since you can make cross-domain requests from an app.
I have had success with:
$.getJSON('http://google.com/', function (data) {console.log(data);});
..which logged the HTML of Google's homepage.
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I'm still very new to appcelerator but I'm trying to do a small experiment with geolocation. I have some code similar to below, which returns the long and lat to the console. What I would like to is get the long and lat and append them to a URL, e.g http://www.mywebsite.com/lat/long.
I've tried creating a simple alert to show me the current location in the but all it says is Alert: [object GeolocationModule].
Could somebody point me in the right direction so I can learn some more? Thank you
if (Ti.Geolocation.locationServicesEnabled) {
Titanium.Geolocation.purpose = 'Get Current Location';
Titanium.Geolocation.getCurrentPosition(function(e) {
if (e.error) {
Ti.API.error('Error: ' + e.error);
} else {
Ti.API.info(e.coords);
}
});
} else {
alert('Please enable location services');
}
This is how you need to follow the API documentation:
You can have a look at the LocationResults page: https://docs.appcelerator.com/platform/latest/#!/api/LocationResults which leads you to LocationCoordinates: https://docs.appcelerator.com/platform/latest/#!/api/LocationCoordinates
There you can see, that you can use e.coords.latitude or longitude to get the values. Or have a look at the console output. It should show you a JSON output with the key-value pairs.
Once you have the values you can create a HTTP request (demo: https://docs.appcelerator.com/platform/latest/#!/guide/HTTPClient_and_the_Request_Lifecycle) and open your page:
var url = "https://www.appcelerator.com/"+e.coords.longitude+"/"+e.coords.latitude;
var xhr = Ti.Network.createHTTPClient({
onload: function(e) {
// this function is called when data is returned from the server and available for use
// this.responseText holds the raw text return of the message (used for text/JSON)
// this.responseXML holds any returned XML (including SOAP)
// this.responseData holds any returned binary data
Ti.API.debug(this.responseText);
alert('success');
},
onerror: function(e) {
// this function is called when an error occurs, including a timeout
Ti.API.debug(e.error);
alert('error');
},
timeout:5000 /* in milliseconds */
});
xhr.open("GET", url);
xhr.send(); // request is actually sent with this statement
or if you plan to use more request have a look at RESTe (https://github.com/jasonkneen/RESTe) which is an awesome library that makes it easy to create API requests
I have a function being called on a page on a local apache instance (/test) which calls a subpage (/test/info) with jQuery.ajax and correctly makes an AJAX call and dynamically loads the content from the response on my desktop in FF, Safari, Chrome, but in the iOS emulator, no call is made and the page is refreshed.
window.getInfo = function ( event ) {
console.log('1) prior to $.ajax');
$.ajax({
url: 'http://localhost/test/info',
dataType: 'html',
beforeSend: function(xhr) {
console.log('2) beforeSend');
},
success: function(data, textStatus) {
console.log('3) success');
if ( textStatus == 'success' ) {
// doing stuff with data
}
}
}).always( function() { console.log('4) always'); });
};
From the desktop browsers all of the logs are printed and my apache server reports a request at /test, but on Safari in the iOS emulator, only the '1) prior to $.ajax' and '2) beforeSend' logs are printed and the next request made to apache is for /test.
Does anyone have any idea what is happening here, and how to make iOS behave itself?
UPDATE: When I add the async: false attribute to the ajax call, all the logs are printed, and the request is made, so that basically fixed the issue; however the page still reloads which I believe is a different issue related to event propagation on iOS.
All that is needed to make this work is a return false; from the handler function. See event.preventDefault() vs. return false for a more complete explanation, but basically "return false from within a jQuery event handler is effectively the same as calling both e.preventDefault and e.stopPropagation on the passed jQuery.Event object."
So a fully functional version of the above code is:
getInfo = function() {
$.ajax({
url: '/test/info',
dataType: 'html',
success: function(data, textStatus) {
if ( textStatus == 'success' ) {
// doing stuff with data
}
}
});
return false;
};
// The order of vv that string may be important
$(document).on('click touchend', '.getInfo', getInfo );
I'm doing a simple AJAX call to append an album's tracks in an unordered list. It will append the tracks on the second click with this code:
window.app.views.AlbumView = Backbone.View.extend({...
events: {
'click .queue-add' : 'selectAlbum',
'click .show-tracks' : 'showTracks',
'click .hide-tracks' : 'hideTracks',
},
showTracks: function(){
_this = this
this.model.getTracks().forEach(function(track){
_this.$el.find('.tracks').append("<li>"+track.attributes.title+"</li>");
});
},
Clearly the tracks hadn't been fetched in time for the first click so I added a callback function to the showTracks method like so:
showTracks: function(){
_this = this
this.model.getTracks({
success: function(tracks){
console.log(tracks);
tracks.forEach(function(track){
_this.$el.find('.tracks').append("<li>"+track.attributes.title+"</li>");
});
}
});
},
Yet it won't enter the block and the console.log(tracks); puts nothing to the console.
Any tips would be really awesome here, thanks!!
app.models.Album = Backbone.Model.extend({
....
getTracks: function() {
this.tracks.fetch();
return this.tracks
},
....
});
I couldn't find where did you invoke that callback. you may need modify "getTracks" method like this:
getTracks: function(callback) {
this.tracks.fetch();
callback(this.tracks); //you need to invoke the callback before return
return this.tracks;
}
This is called "callback pattern", google it will find more.
and the backbone model's fetch method accept option argument, It is a object with two keys -- success and error -- both are function. If you provide this argument, backbone will call them automatically.
hope this help.
I'm using jQuery UI autocomplete with data from a remote datasource. My use case is really similar to the example here:
http://jqueryui.com/demos/autocomplete/#remote
The only difference is that I set my delay to 0. In between the keystrokes, the menu disappears for about 1/10th of a second ~100milli seconds prior to the updated autocomplete list being displayed.
Is there anyway I can prevent the menu from temporarily disappearing between keystrokes? A good use case is google's search, where between keystrokes, the suggestion box does not temporarily disappear.
IMO, it is not a good practice to set a delay of zero when using a remote datasource. It will send more requests than needed and surcharge the server with no benefit.
Anyway, I think you can achieve what you want by defining the source option as a callback yourself.
First a bit of explanaton. I suppose you are using the remote feature passing an url as the source for the plugin. The plugin actually wraps this into a callback implemented this way:
// in case the option "source" is a string
url = this.options.source;
this.source = function(request, response) {
if (self.xhr) {
self.xhr.abort();
}
self.xhr = $.ajax({
url: url,
data: request,
dataType: "json",
autocompleteRequest: ++requestIndex,
success: function(data, status) {
if (this.autocompleteRequest === requestIndex) {
response(data);
}
},
error: function() {
if (this.autocompleteRequest === requestIndex) {
response([]);
}
}
});
};
As you can see, if there is already an ajax request going on, it abords it. This happenning in your case as a request, as fast as your server can be, takes some time and your delay is zero.
if (self.xhr) {
self.xhr.abort();
}
This will actually execute the error callback of the aborted request that will execute itself the response callback with an empty dataset. If you look at the response callback, it closes the menu if data is empty:
_response: function(content) {
if (!this.options.disabled && content && content.length) {
...
} else {
this.close();
}
You can actually define your own source callback to make your ajax request yourself and change the default behavior by not aborting any pending request. Something like:
$('#autocomplete').autocomplete({
source: function(request, response) {
$.ajax({
url: url,
data: request,
dataType: "json",
success: function(data, status) {
// display menu with received dataset
response(data);
},
error: function() {
// close the menu on error by executing the response
// callback with an empty dataset
response([]);
}
});
}
});
seems to me that I didn't fully understand the concept behind jquerymobile, because I have no idea how to solve this issue.
What I want to do is load some HTML Content via AJAX, according to location.hash, put it into a new page and load this page.
But if I create a page myself by using the pagebeforechange event, jquerymobile just ignores it, creates its own div and my content won't be displayed.
How do I have to do it?
Edit:
This is how I am currently doing it, but it wont't work.
$(function() {
getPageContent(top.location.href, false);
$(document).bind( "pagebeforechange", function( e, data ) {
getPageContent(data.toPage, true);
});
});
function getPageContent(pageUrl, changedPage) {
var re = /.*\/#(.*)/;
var result;
result = re.exec(pageUrl);
window.page = result[1].substr(0,3);
window.id = result[1].substr(3);
window.ajaxUrl = "request.php?page="+window.page+"&id="+window.id;
$.ajax({
url: window.ajaxUrl,
success: function(data) {
if(data.error) {
alert(data.error);
}
else if(data.data) {
if(changedPage) {
changePage(data.data));
}
else {
$('#content[role="main"]').html(atob(data.data));
setupPage();
}
}
else {
alert("UNKNOWN ERROR: "+data);
}
}
});
}
function changePage(html) {
var div = "<div></div>";
var newPage = $(div).attr("data-role", "page").attr("data-url", window.page+window.id);
var header = $(div).attr("data-role", "header");
var content = $(div).attr("data-role", "content");
var footer = $(div).attr("data-role", "footer");
$("body").append(newPage);
newPage.append(header, content, footer);
content.html(html);
newPage.page();
}
Complete edit of the whole answer:
First. Set your body id to id=body. Then when you want to load the new page and change to it, use an ajax call like this:
$.get(window.ajaxUrl, function(data){
$('#body').append("<div id='newPage' data-role='page'></div>"); //Creates a new page.
$('#newPage').html(data); //Loads the html content into the new page.
$.mobile.changePage('#newPage'); //Navigates to the new page.
}
This sends an ajax call with the method GET to the url found in your window.ajaxUrl. If the call is successful, it creates a new page named "newPage", and fills it with the data received from the ajax call. Then redirects to the newly created page.
This jsFiddle shows the basics of how it works. However, it doesn't use any ajax call.
You have to refresh the page with jQueryMobile :
$("#your-page").trigger("create");
--Edit
<script>
$("#thepage").live("pageshow", function(){
$("#thepage).trigger("create");
});
</script>
Change the content of #thepage before 'pageshow' event
It does this for you automatically - just make a regular link to the page and jquery mobile will shwo the loading spinner, load it in the background via ajax, then transition to the new page.
Make sure all your pages are decide with unique IDs and data-role='page'. Check out the start guide here:
http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.1.0/docs/about/getting-started.html