/*
Copyright (c) 2007 Pelle Braendgaard (pelle@stakeventures.com)
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
THE SOFTWARE.
*/
/*
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DOM-RESOURCE
============
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This is a simple rest based AJAX API with a very DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself)
approach. It is inspired heavily by ActiveRecord/ActiveResource and is designed
to work well in a Rails environment, eventhough you could easily use it with PHP,
Java or whatever.
The code is available at http://code.google.com/p/dom-resource/
I blog primarily on http://stakeventures.com
DEPENDENCIES
dom-resource relies on 2 existing libraries:
- Prototype which is avilable at http://prototypejs.org
- Ryan Schuft's inflection.js at http://code.google.com/p/inflection-js/
QUICK START
You map an object to a resource by following standard rails conventions in naming
your elements dom id's.
EG:
I will delete you
delete@gmail.com
Here you can either work with the collection as a whole using the $RES(plural_id)
function:
$RES('people') => DOM element extended with special resource methods below
$RES('people').count() => 3
$RES('people').reload() => AJAX GET call to /people
$RES('people').create({name:'Dwight',email:'dwight@dundermifflin.com'}) => AJAX POST call to /people
$RES('people').find(2) => [array of all person elements]
or individual objects using $REC(singular_id) function:
$REC('person_1') => DOM element extended with special resource methods below
$REC('person_1').db_id() => 1
$REC('person_1').get('name') => 'Pelle'
$REC('person_1').resource() => $RES('people')
$REC('person_1').destroy() => AJAX delete to /people/1 then removes from dom
$REC('person_1').action('toggle') => AJAX post to /people/1;toggle then replaces element with result
You can extend your objects yourself by creating a module definition:
var Person={
initialize:function(){
this.name=this.getName();
this.email=this.getEmail();
},
getName:function(){
return this.get('name');
},
getEmail:function(){
return this.get('email');
}
}
$REC() automatically deduces the class name (Singular Capitalized) and checks
if it exists. If it does it extends the element with these methods and calls the
initialize method without parameters.
This is work in progress so please bear with me on any errors.
*/
if (!window.Resource)
var Resource={};
Resource.highlight=function(element){
new Effect.Highlight(element);
};
Resource.remove=function(element){
new Effect.Fade(element);
};
Resource.error=function(request){
$('notice').addClassName('error');
$('notice').update(request.responseText);
new Effect.Shake('notice');
};
Resource.flash=function(request){
$('notice').removeClassName('error');
$('notice').update(request.responseText);
};
Resource.methods={
count: function(){
return this.all().length;
},
all: function(){
return this.getElementsByClassName(this.instance_name);
},
find: function(id){
return $REC(this.instance_name+'_'+id);
},
url: function(){
if (!this._url)
this._url=this.resource_prefix+'/'+this.collection_name;
return this._url;
},
reload: function(options){
var options=options||{};
options.method='get';
new Ajax.Updater(this,this.url(),options);
},
create: function(data){
new Ajax.Updater({success:this,failure:'notice'},this.url(),{method:'post',parameters:this.toQueryString(data),insertion:Insertion.Bottom,onFailure:Resource.error});
},
createFromForm: function(form){
var formElement=$(form);
new Ajax.Updater(this,this.url(),{method:'post',parameters:formElement.serialize(),insertion:Insertion.Bottom,onFailure:Resource.error});
},
toQueryString: function(params){
var parts = new Array(params.length);
for (part in params)
parts.push(this.instance_name+'['+part+']='+params[part]);
return parts.join('&');
}
};
Resource.extend = function(obj) {
var element;
var resource_prefix='';
if (typeof(obj)=='string'){
var pos=obj.lastIndexOf('/');
if (pos>=0){
resource_prefix=Resource.stripHttpAndHost(obj.substring(0,pos));
// name=obj.substring(pos+1);
name=Resource.toId(Resource.stripHttpAndHost(obj));
} else {
name=obj;
}
element=Resource.findCollection(name);
if (element.tagName=='FORM')
return $RES(Resource.stripHttpAndHost(element.action));
} else
element=obj;
if (!element || !element.tagName || element.nodeType == 3 || element == window || element.collection_name)
return element;
element.resource_prefix=resource_prefix;
name.match(/(\d+_)?([a-z_]+$)/);
name=RegExp.$2;
element.collection_name=name;
element.instance_name=name.singularize();
for (var property in Resource.methods) {
var value = Resource.methods[property];
if (typeof value == 'function' && !(property in element))
element[property] = value;
}
return element;
};
function $RES(obj){
return Resource.extend(obj);
};
Resource.toPath=function(name){
return '/'+name.gsub(/([a-z]+)_(\d+)(_?)/,function(match){
return match[1].pluralize()+'/'+match[2]+(match[3]=='_' ? '/':'');
});
};
Resource.findCollection=function(name){
var element=$(name);
if (element!=null)
return element;
if (name.match(/[a-z]+_\d+_(.+)/))
return Resource.findCollection(RegExp.$1);
return null;
};
Resource.stripHttpAndHost=function(url){
if (url.match(/^(https?:\/\/\w+(\.\w+)*(:\d+)?)/))
url=url.substring(RegExp.$1.length);
return url;
};
Resource.toId=function(path){
return Resource.stripHttpAndHost(path).substring(1).gsub(/([a-z]+)\/(\d+)/,function(match){
return match[1].singularize()+'_'+match[2];
}).gsub(/\//,'_');
};
Resource.isResourceId=function(name){
return (/(\w+)(_(\d+))$/.test(name));
};
if (!window.Resource.Record)
Resource.Record={};
// Helper function to extract the value of an element. Support for microformats will be added here.
Resource.valueOf=function(element){
if (element==null)
return null;
if (element.nodeName=='ABBR'&&element.getAttribute('title')!=null)
return element.getAttribute('title');
else
return element.textContent;
};
Resource.Record.methods={
get: function(name){
return Resource.valueOf(this.getElement(name));
},
getElement: function(name){
var children=this.getElementsByClassName(name);
if (children.length==0)
return null;
else
return children[0];
},
set: function(name,value){
var children=this.getElementsByClassName(name);
if (children.length>0)
children[0].update(value);
},
update_attribute: function(name,value){
this.set(name,value);
this.save();
},
db_id: function(){
return parseInt(this.id.match(/[a-z]+_(\d+)$/)[1],10);
},
instance_name: function(){
return this.id.match(/([a-z]+)_\d+$/)[1];
},
collection_name: function(){
return this.instance_name().pluralize();
},
module_name: function(){
return this.instance_name().capitalize();
},
resource: function(){
if (this._resource==null)
this._resource=$RES(this.collection_name);
return this._resource;
},
url: function(){
return Resource.toPath(this.id);
},
toHash: function(){
var params=new Hash();
var children=this.descendants();
for (i in children){
var attr=children[i];
if (attr.className) {// Make bad assumpution that we are only interested in the first class
params[attr.className]=Resource.valueOf(attr);
}
}
return params;
},
toQueryString: function(){
return this.toHash().toQueryString(); //Todo fill this one out
},
action: function(action,params){
var saveEvent=this.onSave.bind(this);
new Ajax.Request( this.url()+';'+action, {method: 'post', parameters:(params ? params.toQueryString() :''),onSuccess:saveEvent,onFailure:Resource.error});
},
save: function(form){
var params=(form!=null)?form.serialize():this.toQueryString();
var saveEvent=this.onSave.bind(this);
new Ajax.Request( this.url(), {method: 'put', parameters:this.toQueryString(),onSuccess:saveEvent,onFailure:Resource.error});
},
destroy: function(){
var destroyEvent=this.onDestroy.bind(this);
if (confirm("Are you sure?"))
new Ajax.Request( this.url(), {method: 'delete',onSuccess:destroyEvent,onFailure:Resource.error});
},
onSave: function(request){
this.replace(request.responseText);
},
onDestroy: function(request){
this.remove();
}
};
Resource.Record.extend = function(obj) {
var element;
if (typeof(obj)=='string'){
element=$(obj);
} else
element=obj;
if (!element || !element.tagName || element.nodeType == 3 || element == window || element.collection)
return element;
for (var property in Resource.Record.methods) {
var value = Resource.Record.methods[property];
if (typeof value == 'function' && !(property in element))
element[property] = value;
}
try {
var mixin=window[element.module_name()];
if (mixin){
Object.extend(element,mixin);
}
if (element.initialize)
element.initialize();
} catch(e){}; // I'm making a very bold assumption that the mixin does not exist here
return element;
};
function $REC(obj){
return Resource.Record.extend(obj);
};