[forge-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (FORGE-927) Add Ajax support for Searching entities.

[Hanine Hanynowsky (JIRA)]

Hanine Hanynowsky created FORGE-927:
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             Summary: Add Ajax support for Searching entities.
                 Key: FORGE-927
                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-927
             Project: Forge
          Issue Type: Feature Request
          Components: Scaffold
    Affects Versions: 2.0.0.Alpha4
         Environment: Any
            Reporter: Hanine Hanynowsky
            Priority: Optional


For a better user experience, adding ajax support for searching entities will be appreciated.
Here are the modifications to have such support:
For example: Let's consider the entity : World.java

1- change the method public void paginate(){} to public void paginate(AjaxBehavioreven event){} in WorldBean.java

2- in /world/search.xhtml : change =>  
<f:event type="preRenderView" listener="#{helpBean.paginate()}" />   
to => 
<f:event type="preRenderView" listener="#{helpBean.paginate(this)}" />

3- embed : <f:ajax /> in <h:inputText fields and/or <h:selecOneMenu ... components.....this way:

<h:inputText ........>
<f:ajax event="keyup" render="the_id_of_the_datatable"									execute="@form" />	
</h:inputText>

Remark: the ajax event for SelectOneMenu is click, not keyup.

4- finally in WorldBean.java, modify the create method, so that it becomes:

public String create() {

		if (this.conversation.isTransient()) {
			this.conversation.begin();
		} else {
			this.conversation.end();
		}
		return "create?faces-redirect=true";
	}

5- Optional: remove the search button in search.xhtml
That's all. 

Ideally, Forge should let the developer speicify if he/she would like to generate these statements in order to enable Ajax or not. Example:

scaffold-x from World.java --enableAjax true

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