[xwiki-devs] New WYSIWYG integration issue

[Jean-Vincent Drean]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea
<mariusdumitru.florea at xwiki.com> wrote:
> Hi JV,
>
> I don't think I can do that because the WYSIWYG and the submit buttons on
> the page are separated. For me the WYSIWYG is like an HTML text area. It
> can be added to a form which contains other fields and possible other
> WYSIWYG instances. So I think it's good to have the submit buttons
> separated from the WYSIWYG.

Right, I've replied too fast :)

> The only hook is the onsubmit event of the form, provided the WYSIWYG is
> inside a form, which is not always the case. So I guess I could listen to
> the submit event, stop it, request the conversion and trigger the real
> submit after I get the response (following the pattern suggested by you).
> But as I said, this looks to me like an error-prone code for two reasons:
>
> * the form could already have onsubmit logic/listeners
> * GWT doesn't provide an API for wrapping an exiting HTML form but only
> for creating a new one. I'd have to write this code.
>
> So you think this is better than using a filter on the server side?
>

No, indeed.
+1 with : B) Use a servlet filter.

JV.