[BATIK-933] Support XMLHttpRequest (a.k.a. XHR)

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.8
• Component/s: Scripting
• Environment: Operating System: All; Platform: PC
• Assignee: Batik Developer's Mailing list
• Reporter: Helder Magalhães
• Created: 02/Jan/10 06:23
• Updated: 04/Oct/10 12:30

Description

Although the standard way to perform server communication in SVG seems to be using getURL/postURL (standardized in SVG Tiny 1.2 [1]), Batik already supports a number of extensions [2] so the question is... Why not?

Cameron has stated that a half-baked implementation was underway [3]; also, within the same thread, there's a hints towards the possibility of using Apache CXF technology.

Yesterday, I found a script implementation [4] (part of scripting, for which there's a separate issue, BATIK-856), which might be possible to integrate with little effort. I've also found another script implementation [5], part of jQuery.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGTiny12/ecmascript-binding.html
[2] http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/status.html#ecmascript
[3] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/xmlgraphics-batik-dev/200711.mbox/[e-mail]%3E
[4] https://scripting.dev.java.net/source/browse/*checkout*/scripting/scripts/javascript/ajax/ajax.js?content-type=text%2Fplain&rev=1.1
[5] http://dev.jquery.com/browser/trunk/jquery/build/runtest/env.js