Question

I am trying to use JQuery UI dialog (modal form) for the following scenario. I have a search box and a drop down menu in modal form. User will be entering a term to search and will be choosing an option from drop down. Depending on the input, I make some REST calls. Now, I want to display the result of the REST call on same modal form. Is it possible to do this using modal? If there is a better solution for this, then please let me know. Thanks in advance.

Edit: Sorry for not being clear enough. Actually I am using Ruby for the back end part. i.e for REST calls and also for parsing. That is working fine. Once the user enters term to search in dialog, I am calling the Ruby method from which I get array of data to be displayed on the same dialog where user entered term to search. I am unable to do this part.

Answer 1

Sure, for your rest calls, I assume your using jQuery’s $.ajax or $.get or $.post and I also assume your REST API is returning valid JSON, you would have something like:

$.post('RESTURL',{action:'something'}, function(data) {
    $('#dialog').append(data.something);
}, 'json'); 

Sorry the example is so vague, you didn’t provide much info.