[TOMAHAWK-730] create a component which will submit a form on a specific event

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.1.5
• Component/s: submitOnEvent
• Assignee: Mario Ivankovits
• Reporter: Mario Ivankovits
• Created: 09/Oct/06 18:49
• Updated: 23/Mar/07 15:46
• Resolved: 15/Oct/06 13:26

Description

Proposal for this new component:

A new component which aims to do whats described here [1]

Component name: submitOnEvent

It should operate in three modes:

1) as a child of an input* component (direct child)
In this mode submitOnEvent will add a event handler to the input
component and fires the button/link pointed to with "for"

2) standalone somewhere on the page
In this mode submitOnEvent will intercept all events it is configured for
and fires the button/link pointed to with "for"

3) as a child of a command* component (link or button)
In this mode submitOnEvent will intercept all events it is configured for
and fires the button/link it is embedded.

It should handle buttons and links - links as described on [2]

The proposed syntax is:

<s:submitOnEvent
for="myButton"
event="keypress|focus|blur|change"
callback="any_user_js_function" />

"event" and "callback" should be optional.
The default event should be "keypress" and for "callback" the default should be a method which will trigger on "Enter".
"for" should be optional if the component is embedded in a command* component.

<h:commandLink .... >
<s:submitOnEvent/>
</h:commandLink>

The component should not use dojo.

[1] http://wiki.apache.org/myfaces/SubmitPageOnValueChange
[2] http://wiki.apache.org/myfaces/JavascriptWithJavaServerFaces