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Josh

2007-Aug-31 14:43 UTC

verifying existence of elements

My controller ends like this:

    render :update do |page|
      page.replace_html ''someDiv'', :partial =>
''somePartial''
    end

I need to edit this to verify that someDiv exists before I go
replacing_htmling it.  I''m at a loss to figure out if this can be
done.  Any ideas?

Thanks!


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Adam Cohen

2007-Aug-31 16:31 UTC

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Re: verifying existence of elements

On 8/31/07, Josh <josh.m.sharpe-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:>
> My controller ends like this:
>
>     render :update do |page|
>       page.replace_html ''someDiv'', :partial =>
''somePartial''
>     end
>
> I need to edit this to verify that someDiv exists before I go
> replacing_htmling it.  I''m at a loss to figure out if this can be
> done.  Any ideas?
are you not in control of the content of your pages?  As far as I
know, the only way to do something like this would be to read the
entire page and search to make sure the div exists before continuing.
Unfortunately you can''t just execute the rjs call and expect it to
throw an exception on error (the exception is thrown outside the
context of rails and handled directly by the prototype library)

You can use the following library to allow you to parse your html files:

http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/

but of course it''ll be faster when operating on local files than
through using open-uri.  But this is an expensive operation which you
really want to avoid if possible.

Adam

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rein.henrichs-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org

2007-Sep-01 14:41 UTC

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Re: verifying existence of elements

Parse the entire page with hpricot? That''s rather silly. You can use
basic javascript or the prototype library to check for the existance
of an element with an id, and you can use use the concatenation
operator to add plain javascript to the output:

page << ''if (${''someDiv'')) {''
page.replace_html ''someDiv'', :partial =>
''somePartial''
page << ''}''

It''s not the most elegant solution because you''re not writing
pure
ruby any more, but it''s quick and simple if you know a little
javascript.

Rein
On Aug 31, 11:31 am, "Adam Cohen"
<bionicboo...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:> On 8/31/07, Josh
<josh.m.sha...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>
>
> > My controller ends like this:
>
> >     render :update do |page|
> >       page.replace_html ''someDiv'', :partial =>
''somePartial''
> >     end
>
> > I need to edit this to verify that someDiv exists before I go
> > replacing_htmling it.  I''m at a loss to figure out if this
can be
> > done.  Any ideas?
>
> are you not in control of the content of your pages?  As far as I
> know, the only way to do something like this would be to read the
> entire page and search to make sure the div exists before continuing.
> Unfortunately you can''t just execute the rjs call and expect it to
> throw an exception on error (the exception is thrown outside the
> context of rails and handled directly by the prototype library)
>
> You can use the following library to allow you to parse your html files:
>
> http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/
>
> but of course it''ll be faster when operating on local files than
> through using open-uri.  But this is an expensive operation which you
> really want to avoid if possible.
>
> Adam

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rein.henrichs-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org

2007-Sep-01 17:20 UTC

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Re: verifying existence of elements

Whoops, typo:

page << ''if (${''someDiv'')) {''

should be:

page << ''if ($(''someDiv'')) {''

On Sep 1, 9:41 am, rein.henri...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
wrote:> Parse the entire page with hpricot? That''s rather silly. You can
use
> basic javascript or the prototype library to check for the existance
> of an element with an id, and you can use use the concatenation
> operator to add plain javascript to the output:
>
> page << ''if (${''someDiv'')) {''
> page.replace_html ''someDiv'', :partial =>
''somePartial''
> page << ''}''
>
> It''s not the most elegant solution because you''re not
writing pure
> ruby any more, but it''s quick and simple if you know a little
> javascript.
>
> Rein
> On Aug 31, 11:31 am, "Adam Cohen"
<bionicboo...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> > On 8/31/07, Josh
<josh.m.sha...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> > > My controller ends like this:
>
> > >     render :update do |page|
> > >       page.replace_html ''someDiv'', :partial
=> ''somePartial''
> > >     end
>
> > > I need to edit this to verify that someDiv exists before I go
> > > replacing_htmling it.  I''m at a loss to figure out if
this can be
> > > done.  Any ideas?
>
> > are you not in control of the content of your pages?  As far as I
> > know, the only way to do something like this would be to read the
> > entire page and search to make sure the div exists before continuing.
> > Unfortunately you can''t just execute the rjs call and expect
it to
> > throw an exception on error (the exception is thrown outside the
> > context of rails and handled directly by the prototype library)
>
> > You can use the following library to allow you to parse your html
files:
>
> >http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/
>
> > but of course it''ll be faster when operating on local files
than
> > through using open-uri.  But this is an expensive operation which you
> > really want to avoid if possible.
>
> > Adam

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