src vs srctarget vs srcwait - asp.net

I continue to work on a project that I do not fully understand yet. I encountered the following line of code:
<iframe id="AddDialog" style ="overflow: hidden; width:1150px; height:450px;" class="Dialogframe" scrolling="no" srcwait=#Html.Raw("'" + Url.Action("Index", "FieldChooser") + "'") srctarget=#Html.Raw("\"" + Url.Action("Index", "FieldChooser", new { ColumnFormat = false, resultmodel = Guid.Empty, datatype = "", multiselect=false }) + "\"") src=#Html.Raw("\"" + Url.Action("Loading", "FieldChooser") + "\"")></iframe>
Visual Studio tells me that srcwait and srctarget are not valid HTML5-elements, but it seems to work. The Loading View is shown for a few seconds and then the Index() method is executed (the one called in srctarget).
I am also not able to find anything on the internet about the attributes srctarget and srcwait. So what are the differences between src, srctarget and srcwait? Do they even exist or is that some invention of the person that worked on it before me?
I have a function in the FieldChooserController
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Index(string id)
{
...
}
I want this to be called when I click on the OK button. I assumed that the srcwait part is meant for that because the call looks like that, but the function is never called.
Please bear with me and tell me if you need to see more code, at this point I have no idea what is important.
buttons: {
OK: function() {
//Save selected Value
$( this ).dialog( "close" );
if (GlobalName !=''){
addwhere(GlobalName,opts.sourceel,GlobalDefVal,GlobalDataType,GlobalValue);
}
$('#AddDialog').attr('src', $('#AddDialog').attr('srcwait'));
},
Cancel: function() {
$( this ).dialog( "close" );
$('#AddDialog').attr('src', $('#AddDialog').attr('srcwait'));
}
}

There most probably is a piece of JavaScript running, which sets the src to srcwait when an operation is performed where the user will be waiting for a wile, for example to show a loading screen.
As for your code, if you have a HttpPost annotated Index() method you wish to call upon a button click, you must create a form and let it post there:
#using (Html.BeginForm("Index", "FieldChooser", FormMethod.Post)
{
<input value="OK" type="submit" />
}

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Calling method from razor page

I have a asp.net core mvc project.
In my layout file, I want to display the name of the currently logged in user, such that the username is displayed in the header. For this, I want to be able to call a function in my homecontroller that does this.
So, I made a simple function taht looks like this in the home controller:
public String GetLoggedInuser()
{
return "garse garsebro";
}
And then I have tried every method I have been able to find. The first couple of methods here are just function suggested around the web, that are simply not available to me:
#HtmlHelper.Action("GetLoggedInuser");
#Html.RenderAction("GetLoggedInuser");
To name a few. Then there is this one, which I can find:
#Html.ActionLink("GetLoggedInuser")
But for this one, my function "GetLoggedInuser" can't be found anywhere.
How do you, in a razor page call a controller function that you can get returned a string from that function and display it?
If you are using Microsoft.AspNet.Identity then below line will do the work post login.
#Html.ActionLink("Hello " + User.Identity.GetUserName() + "!", "Index", "Manage", routeValues: null, htmlAttributes: new { title = "Manage" })
You can try to use ajax to call action to get the username,and add it to html:
<div id="username">
</div>
#section scripts
{
<script>
$(function () {
$.ajax({
type: "GET",
url: 'GetLoggedInuser',
}).done(function (result) {
$("#username").html(result);
});
})
</script>
}

Meteor.js autosubscribe after callback from server

I am trying to use meteor autosubscribe function on the client but sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. So here is the case:
Working version: I have dropdown which is populated with channels. When user clicks on the channel I set session variable and start loading threads:
Template.channelDropdown.events({
"click #channelLink": function() {
Session.set("currentChannel", this);
}
});
html
<ul class="dropdown-menu">
{{#each channels}}
<li>
<a id="channelLink" href="#">{{name}}</a>
</li>
{{/each}}
</ul>
and
Tracker.autorun(function() {
Meteor.subscribe("threadsByChannel", Session.get("currentChannel"));
});
Meteor.publish("threadsByChannel", function (channel) {
return threads.find({channel: channel});
});
and loading threads:
"channelThreads": function() {
return threads.find({channel: Session.get("currentChannel")}).fetch();
},
Now this works. However I have other method to open channel which doesn't work. It is possible to enter channel name and if it doesn't exist it is created, otherwise existing one is returned.
Template.channelSearchBar.events({
"submit #joinChannelForm": function() {
event.preventDefault();
var channelName = $("#channelNameField").val();
Meteor.call("getChannelByName", channelName, function(error, result) {
if (error) {
// TODO error handling
} else {
Session.set("currentChannel", result);
}
});
$("#channelNameField").val("");
}
});
server:
'getChannelByName': function (channelName) {
var channel = channels.findOne({name: channelName});
if (channel) {
return channel;
} else {
var newChannel = {
name: channelName
}
return channels.insert(newChannel);
}
}
html
<template name="channelSearchBar">
<form id="joinChannelForm" class="navbar-form navbar-left" role="search">
<div class="form-group">
<input id="channelNameField" type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Enter channel name">
</div>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-default">Join</button>
</form>
</template>
Now the only difference is that session variable is set in callback. I'm pretty sure this is the problem as it is asynchronious call to the server and somehow threads are not populated in client when requested. When I set breakpoint in loading threads function (threads.find() on client), I see that session variable is correctly set, but it just does not return anything. Also sometimes it is called two times (for example in working first case first call returns nothing and then second call returns real results for some reason. Is this is how it suppose to work?). I am just beginning to learn meteor and trying to understand how it all works. Would be glad if someone could explain or direct me to the right way.
EDIT: Its very strange. I have put breakpoint in publish function and it seems it works fine - exactly like it should. However on the not working case it simply returns nothing right from the server side even though both working and not working situations provides (seemingly) exactly the same channel object. It seems that the problem is related with mongodb query.
Why don't remove the Meteor.call, and do everything on the client side?, the subscription on the Autorun seems to be fine, lets try with this code, just make sure you have the allow/deny permissions in order.
Template.channelSearchBar.events({
"submit #joinChannelForm": function() {
event.preventDefault();
var channel = channels.findOne({name: channelName}),
channelName = $("#channelNameField").val();
if (channel) {
return channel;
} else {
var newChannel = {
name: channelName
}
var chanelCreated = channels.insert(newChannel);
Session.set("currentChannel", chanelCreated);
$("#channelNameField").val("");
}
}
});
OK it seems the real problem was not that of meteor publish/subscribe mistake but because of mongodb query which was not recognizing channel object. Problem was solved by changing this:
threads.find({channel: channel})
to this:
threads.find({"channel.name": channel.name})
I have found that mongo queries cares about order of object parameters, but channel had only one parameter (name) at the moment, so I'm still not sure why they were not considered equal. One channel was returned from findOne query and another from find. One from find was recognized.

grails controller/action/id automagically turning into controller/index

My problem is that the backend server (written in grails) is automatically converting my request URL to be a different URL. Specifically, it is changing it from /UXChallengeAwards/processSelectedNotifications to /UXChallengeAwards/index.
--
In a template gsp file, I have defined a button that makes a jQuery ajax call when clicked on:
<button class="blue-link"
onclick="jQuery.ajax({type:'POST',
data:jQuery(this).parents('.multiSelectForm').serialize(),
url: '/ici/UXChallengeAwards/processSelectedNotifications/${challenge.id}',
success:function(data,textStatus){},
error:function(xhr,textStatus,errorThrown){}
})" >
The method UXChallengeAwardsController.processSelectedNotifications exists. It performs some work and then redirects to another action in the controller. In fact, this used to work. But somehow in the process of adding a second button I made a change which seems to have broken things.
When the button is now clicked, the request URL gets switched to /ici/UXChallengeAwards/index and a 404 is returned because index does not exist as an action in this controller.
I've googled, and the most common answer for when this happens is that a controller must return some results for the view. But I've seen plenty of examples of redirects in controllers, and I do not see what I am doing wrong. (I did try variants of rendering results, but with no success.)
Here is what my controller action looks like:
def processSelectedNotifications = {
def challenge
def checkboxes = params.list('selectCheckbox');
for (checkbox in checkboxes) {
// the checkbox contains the id of a ChallangeAward that should be published
ChallengeAwards challengeAwards = ChallengeAwards.get(checkbox.toInteger())
if (challengeAwards) {
// grab a challenge for use in the redirect, they are all the same
challenge=challengeAwards.challenge
publish(challengeAwards)
}
}
if (challenge) {
redirect action: 'challengeAwardsRemote', id: challenge.id
return
}
// render a failure message if we got here
render messageNS(code:"UX.ChallengeAwards.Publish.failure")
}
I would really appreciate any insights into what might be wrong, or how to go about tackling this issue. I've checked my UrlMappings, and this is the rule that should handle this controller/method request:
"/$controller/$action?/$id?"{ constraints {} }
Thank you very much!
I'm going to go ahead and answer my own question, in case it is helpful for other newbies.
It turns out that I was not getting an automatic redirect. Rather, I had an error in the button setup code, so that grails was using its default link behavior. (Which is to go to the controller that matches the view, and if no action is specified, use the index method.)
The code above was originally created using a remoteSubmit tag, but I found that the generated code did not support handling multiple forms on a single page very well. So, I copied that generated code and then tweaked it to handle the multiple forms. However, I wanted the styling to match up with what was already in place on the page, so I switched it to be a button. That's when things went awry.
Eventually, I ended up specifying an onClick function for the button, and then writing the ajax submit code in javascript. Which turned out to be much simpler.
Here is what the button specification ended up looking like:
<button type="submit" id="notifications" class="blue-link" >
<i class="fa fa-envelope-o"></i>
<g:messageNS
code="UX.DiscussionBoard.ChallengeAward.Button.notify" />
</button>
And the associated JavaScript:
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
var clkBtn = "";
jQuery('button[type="submit"]').click(function(evt) {
clkBtn = evt.target.id;
});
jQuery('.multiSelectForm').submit(function() {
var url = '/ici/UXChallengeAwards/processSelectedNotifications';
if (clkBtn == 'deletes') {
url ='/ici/UXChallengeAwards/processSelectedDeletes';
}
var errorTarget = jQuery(this).parents().find('.recipientMessage').val();
var requestData = jQuery(this).parents('.multiSelectForm').serialize();
var options = {
data : requestData,
type : 'POST',
url : url,
target : '#awardsTab',
error : function(data) {
jQuery('#' + errorTarget).html(data.responseText).show();
},
success : function(data) {
console.log("in success");
}
};
jQuery(this).ajaxSubmit(options);
return false;
});

In ASP.NET, a POST/Redirect/GET sequence with AJAX hits the redirected-to action twice

Inside a view, I have the following:
#using (Html.BeginForm())
{
<input type="submit" id="savebtn" value="Save" onclick="saveLayout()"/>
}
<script type="text/javascript">
function saveLayout() {
$.ajax({
url: '/Page/SaveFaces/',
data: {
/* layout data of the page, irrelevant */
},
type: 'post',
success: function () {
}
});
return false;
}
</script>
The above hits the following action, which simply redirects the user back to the URL they came from (it's also supposed to save the data, but I've removed that part for simplicity, as it doesn't affect the problem):
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult SaveFaces(string items)
{
return Redirect(Request.UrlReferrer.AbsoluteUri);
}
Then, due to the redirect, we go back to this pretty standard model-fetching action:
public ActionResult Index(int id = 0)
{
var page = db.Pages.Find(id);
if (page == null) return HttpNotFound();
return View(page);
}
The problem is that this last action is called twice.
I have tried removing the AJAX call and doing a normal POST operation and the problem goes away. However, the data I'm trying to send is obtainable only through the a jQuery script and I can't put them in a form. I'm constrained to work with the AJAX method.
Is there anything I can do to prevent the action from being hit twice?
I see you are using jQuery. Can you try this instead? (Note you may have to bind the the form submit event rather than the input button, or both)
#using (Html.BeginForm())
{
<input type="submit" id="savebtn" value="Save" >
}
<script type="text/javascript">
$("#savebtn").submit(function saveLayout(event) {
// The magic that prevents post.
event.preventDefault();
$.ajax({
url: '/Page/SaveFaces/',
data: {
/* layout data of the page, irrelevant */
},
type: 'post',
success: function () {
}
});
return false;
}
</script>
Also if you have access to form element, another way:
<form onsubmit="javascript: return false;">
Though it might be a bit specific to my scenario, I just found an acceptable solution. Since all the data is provided through jQuery, I removed the form completely and replaced the submit button with a simple link.
So, this goes away:
#using (Html.BeginForm())
{
<input type="submit" id="savebtn" value="Save" />
}
And this is put in place instead:
<a onclick="saveLayout()" id="saveLink">Click to save.</a>
Now the [HttpPost] action is hit, the data is saved and the redirected-to action is also hit, once.

jQuery $.get refreshing page instead of providing data

I have written some code using jQuery to use Ajax to get data from another WebForm, and it works fine. I'm copying the code to another project, but it won't work properly. When a class member is clicked, it will give me the ProductID that I have concatenated onto the input ID, but it never alerts the data from the $.get. The test page (/Products/Ajax/Default.aspx) that I have set up simply returns the text "TESTING...". I installed Web Development Helper in IE, and it shows that the request is getting to the test page and that the status is 200 with my correct return text. However, jQuery refreshes my calling page before it will ever show me the data that I'm asking for. Below are the code snippets from my page. Please let me know if there are other code blocks that you need to see. Thank you!
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$(".addtocart_a").click(function() {
var sProdIDFileID = $(this).attr("id");
var aProdIDFileID = sProdIDFileID.split("_");
var sProdID = aProdIDFileID[5];
// *** This alert shows fine -- ProdID: 7
alert("ProdID: " + sProdID);
$.get("/Products/Ajax/Default.aspx", { test: "yes" }, function(data) {
// *** This alert never gets displayed
alert("Data Loaded: " + data);
}, "text");
});
});
</script>
<input src="/images/add_to_cart.png" name="ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$ContentPlaceHolder1$aAddToCart_7" type="image" id="ctl00_ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_ContentPlaceHolder1_aAddToCart_7" class="addtocart_a" />
The easiest way is to tell jQuery not to return anything.
$(".addtocart_a").click(function(e){
// REST OF FUNCTION
return false;
});
Good luck! If you need anything else let me know.

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