Question

I have the following form:

<form class="lift:form.ajax">
<div class="lift:StreamInput">
    <input type="hidden" name="path" value="test" />
    <input type="hidden" name="user" value="james" />
    <input type="hidden" name="level" value="_1" />
    <input type="hidden" name="room" value="demo" />
    <input type="hidden" name="hidden" value="true" />
</div>
<input type="submit" value="" />
</form>

Which goes to:

object StreamInput {

    def render = {

        var path = ""
        var user = ""
        var level = ""
        var room = ""

        def process(): JsCmd = {

            val message = comet.StreamItem(user, path, level, room)
            StreamServer ! message

        }

        "name=path" #> SHtml.onSubmit(path = _) &
        "name=user" #> SHtml.onSubmit(user = _) &
        "name=level" #> SHtml.onSubmit(level = _) &
        "name=room" #> SHtml.onSubmit(room = _) &
        "name=hidden" #>  SHtml.hidden(process)

    }

}

However when I submit the form the values passed to the process method are empty. What am I missing that would cause them to be lost?

Thanks for any help in advance 🙂

Answer 1

I’m not able to test it right now but it could be that SHtml.onSubmit does not work in an Ajax context. If you look at the documentation, SHtml.onSubmit is only used in the non-Ajax example. The Ajax examples use SHtml.text to bind a callback to the text input fields.