[Building Sakai] EntityBroker and posting JSON

[Lovemore Nalube]

Dear Adrian
 
Yes it is possible and very easy too! 
Your jQuery code seems to work, though you do not need the .json in the url and the dataType in this case is not necessary as well. A meaningful error reason will come from xmlHttpRequest.statustext as that will return the error headers eg: Forbidden (403).
 
On the EntityProvider side, you will need to do the following (in this example SmsAccount is a POJO):
1. specify a public Object getSampleEntity() that returns new SmsAccount()
2. in createEntity ensure you have: SmsAccount smsAccount = (SmsAccount) entity; //entity in this case entity is the createEntity method parameter.
3. throw appropriate service/validation errors in createEntity so that the jQuery code can respond appropriately.
 
That's it. Make sure the parameter names (ie object keys in jsonData) are the same as in your POJO definition.
 
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>>> On 05/02/2010 at 12:47, in message <4B6BF72E.6050702 at lancaster.ac.uk>, Adrian Fish <a.fish at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:

Can you post  a json string to the EB direct handler and have it decoded 
into a POJO? Anybody know ? I was hoping to be able to post JSON to EB 
with code like this:

jQuery.ajax(
        {
            url : "/direct/bbb-meeting/new.json",
            dataType : "text",
            type : 'POST',
            data : jsonData,
            success : function(meeting)
            {
                switchState('currentMeetings');
            },
            error : function(xmlHttpRequest,status,error)
            {
                alert("Failed to create meeting. Reason: " + error);
            }
        });

... but am having no success. The entity in my createEntity method is 
uninitialised.

Any ideas? Anyone?

Thanks,

Adrian.

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Bowland Tower South C Floor
Lancaster University
Lancaster
LA1 4YW
email: a.fish at lancaster.ac.uk

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