[gatein-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (GTNPORTAL-1471) Setting gadget user preferences triggers update of portal page content

Setting gadget user preferences triggers update of portal page content ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: GTNPORTAL-1471 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/browse/GTNPORTAL-1471 Project: GateIn Portal Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Affects Versions: 3.1.0-GA Reporter: Jon Kranes The underlying problem appears to be that invoking the gadgets.Prefs.set function triggers an ajax request to the server (via the ajaxGet method in PortalHttpRequest.js). The response content returned by the server then causes the portal page content to be replaced with content in the response. Any gadgets on the page are completely re-initialized and any transient state they previously had (such as items entered in the ToDo list above) is lost. The replacement of the page's content is both unnecessary and undesirable, as demonstrated by the example above. Users will naturally assume that gadgets function independent of one another, so having one gadget suddenly lose its data due to an action taken in another gadget seems contrary to the intent of the gadget paradigm.