Ext.Ajax
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The global Ajax request class that provides a simple way to make Ajax requests with maximum flexibility.
Since Ext.Ajax is a singleton, you can set common properties/events for it once and override them at the request function level only if necessary.
Common Properties you may want to set are:
// Default headers to pass in every request
Ext.Ajax.defaultHeaders = {
'Powered-By': 'Ext'
};
Common Events you may want to set are:
// Example: show a spinner during all Ajax requests
Ext.Ajax.on('beforerequest', this.showSpinner, this);
Ext.Ajax.on('requestcomplete', this.hideSpinner, this);
Ext.Ajax.on('requestexception', this.hideSpinner, this);
An example request:
// Basic request
Ext.Ajax.request({
url: 'foo.php',
success: someFn,
failure: otherFn,
headers: {
'my-header': 'foo'
},
params: { foo: 'bar' }
});
// Simple ajax form submission
Ext.Ajax.request({
form: 'some-form',
params: 'foo=bar'
});
Available since: 1.1.0
Config options
(optional)
A config object containing one or more event handlers to be added to this object during initialization. This should be a valid listeners config object as specified in the addListener example for attaching multiple handlers at once.
DOM events from ExtJs Components
While some ExtJs Component classes export selected DOM events (e.g. "click", "mouseover" etc), this
is usually only done when extra value can be added. For example the DataView's
click event passing the node clicked on. To access DOM
events directly from a Component's HTMLElement, listeners must be added to the Element after the Component
has been rendered. A plugin can simplify this step:
// Plugin is configured with a listeners config object.
// The Component is appended to the argument list of all handler functions.
Ext.DomObserver = Ext.extend(Object, {
constructor: function(config) {
this.listeners = config.listeners ? config.listeners : config;
},
// Component passes itself into plugin's init method
init: function(c) {
var p, l = this.listeners;
for (p in l) {
if (Ext.isFunction(l[p])) {
l[p] = this.createHandler(l[p], c);
} else {
l[p].fn = this.createHandler(l[p].fn, c);
}
}
// Add the listeners to the Element immediately following the render call
c.render = c.render.createSequence(function() {
var e = c.getEl();
if (e) {
e.on(l);
}
});
},
createHandler: function(fn, c) {
return function(e) {
fn.call(this, e, c);
};
}
});
var combo = new Ext.form.ComboBox({
// Collapse combo when its element is clicked on
plugins: [ new Ext.DomObserver({
click: function(evt, comp) {
comp.collapse();
}
})],
store: myStore,
typeAhead: true,
mode: 'local',
triggerAction: 'all'
});
Available since: 1.1.0
Properties
Whether a new request should abort any pending requests. (defaults to false)
Defaults to: false
Available since: 1.1.0
Overrides: Ext.data.Connection.autoAbort
An object containing request headers which are added to each request made by this object (defaults to undefined).
An object containing request headers which are added to each request made by this object (defaults to undefined).
Available since: 1.1.0
True to add a unique cache-buster param to GET requests. (defaults to true)
Available since: 1.1.0
Overrides: Ext.data.Connection.disableCaching
(Optional) Change the parameter which is sent went disabling caching through a cache buster. Defaults to '_dc'
Defaults to: '_dc'
Available since: 1.1.0
An object containing properties which are used as extra parameters to each request made by this object (defaults to undefined). Session information and other data that you need to pass with each request are commonly put here.
Available since: 1.1.0
The default HTTP method to be used for requests. Note that this is case-sensitive and should be all caps (defaults to undefined; if not set but params are present will use "POST", otherwise will use "GET".)
Available since: 1.1.0
Methods
Aborts any outstanding request.
Available since: 1.1.0
Parameters
- transactionId : Number (optional)
defaults to the last transaction
Adds the specified events to the list of events which this Observable may fire.
Available since: 1.1.0
Parameters
- o : Object|String
Either an object with event names as properties with a value of
trueor the first event name string if multiple event names are being passed as separate parameters. - Optional : string
. Event name if multiple event names are being passed as separate parameters. Usage:
this.addEvents('storeloaded', 'storecleared');
Appends an event handler to this object.
Available since: 1.1.0
Parameters
- eventName : String
The name of the event to listen for.
- handler : Function
The method the event invokes.
- scope : Object (optional)
The scope (
thisreference) in which the handler function is executed. If omitted, defaults to the object which fired the event. - options : Object (optional)
An object containing handler configuration. properties. This may contain any of the following properties:
- scope : ObjectThe scope (
thisreference) in which the handler function is executed. If omitted, defaults to the object which fired the event. - delay : NumberThe number of milliseconds to delay the invocation of the handler after the event fires.
- single : BooleanTrue to add a handler to handle just the next firing of the event, and then remove itself.
- buffer : NumberCauses the handler to be scheduled to run in an Ext.util.DelayedTask delayed by the specified number of milliseconds. If the event fires again within that time, the original handler is not invoked, but the new handler is scheduled in its place.
- target : ObservableOnly call the handler if the event was fired on the target Observable, not if the event was bubbled up from a child Observable.
Combining Options
Using the options argument, it is possible to combine different types of listeners:
A delayed, one-time listener.myDataView.on('click', this.onClick, this, { single: true, delay: 100 });Attaching multiple handlers in 1 call
The method also allows for a single argument to be passed which is a config object containing properties which specify multiple handlers.myGridPanel.on({ 'click' : { fn: this.onClick, scope: this, delay: 100 }, 'mouseover' : { fn: this.onMouseOver, scope: this }, 'mouseout' : { fn: this.onMouseOut, scope: this } });Or a shorthand syntax:
myGridPanel.on({ 'click' : this.onClick, 'mouseover' : this.onMouseOver, 'mouseout' : this.onMouseOut, scope: this }); - scope : Object
Enables events fired by this Observable to bubble up an owner hierarchy by calling
this.getBubbleTarget() if present. There is no implementation in the Observable base class.
This is commonly used by Ext.Components to bubble events to owner Containers. See Ext.Component.getBubbleTarget. The default implementation in Ext.Component returns the Component's immediate owner. But if a known target is required, this can be overridden to access the required target more quickly.
Example:
Ext.override(Ext.form.Field, {
// Add functionality to Field's initComponent to enable the change event to bubble
initComponent : Ext.form.Field.prototype.initComponent.createSequence(function() {
this.enableBubble('change');
}),
// We know that we want Field's events to bubble directly to the FormPanel.
getBubbleTarget : function() {
if (!this.formPanel) {
this.formPanel = this.findParentByType('form');
}
return this.formPanel;
}
});
var myForm = new Ext.formPanel({
title: 'User Details',
items: [{
...
}],
listeners: {
change: function() {
// Title goes red if form has been modified.
myForm.header.setStyle('color', 'red');
}
}
});
Available since: Ext JS 3.4.0
Parameters
Fires the specified event with the passed parameters (minus the event name).
An event may be set to bubble up an Observable parent hierarchy (See Ext.Component.getBubbleTarget) by calling enableBubble.
Available since: 1.1.0
Parameters
- eventName : String
The name of the event to fire.
- args : Object...
Variable number of parameters are passed to handlers.
Returns
- Boolean
returns false if any of the handlers return false otherwise it returns true.
Checks to see if this object has any listeners for a specified event
Available since: 1.1.0
Parameters
- eventName : String
The name of the event to check for
Returns
- Boolean
True if the event is being listened for, else false
Determine whether this object has a request outstanding.
Available since: 1.1.0
Parameters
- transactionId : Number (optional)
defaults to the last transaction
Returns
- Boolean
True if there is an outstanding request.
Appends an event handler to this object (shorthand for addListener.)
Available since: 1.1.0
Parameters
- eventName : String
The type of event to listen for
- handler : Function
The method the event invokes
- scope : Object (optional)
The scope (
thisreference) in which the handler function is executed. If omitted, defaults to the object which fired the event. - options : Object (optional)
An object containing handler configuration.
Removes all listeners for this object
Available since: 1.1.0
Relays selected events from the specified Observable as if the events were fired by this.
Available since: 2.3.0
Parameters
- o : Object
The Observable whose events this object is to relay.
- events : Array
Array of event names to relay.
Removes an event handler.
Available since: 1.1.0
Parameters
- eventName : String
The type of event the handler was associated with.
- handler : Function
The handler to remove. This must be a reference to the function passed into the addListener call.
- scope : Object (optional)
The scope originally specified for the handler.
Sends an HTTP request to a remote server.
Important: Ajax server requests are asynchronous, and this call will return before the response has been received. Process any returned data in a callback function.
Ext.Ajax.request({
url: 'ajax_demo/sample.json',
success: function(response, opts) {
var obj = Ext.decode(response.responseText);
console.dir(obj);
},
failure: function(response, opts) {
console.log('server-side failure with status code ' + response.status);
}
});
To execute a callback function in the correct scope, use the scope option.
Available since: 1.1.0
Parameters
- options : Object
An object which may contain the following properties:
- url : String/Function (Optional)The URL to which to send the request, or a function to call which returns a URL string. The scope of the function is specified by the scope option. Defaults to the configured url.
- params : Object/String/Function (Optional)An object containing properties which are used as parameters to the request, a url encoded string or a function to call to get either. The scope of the function is specified by the scope option.
- method : String (Optional)The HTTP method to use for the request. Defaults to the configured method, or if no method was configured, "GET" if no parameters are being sent, and "POST" if parameters are being sent. Note that the method name is case-sensitive and should be all caps.
- callback : Function (Optional)The function to be called upon receipt of the HTTP response. The callback is called regardless of success or failure and is passed the following parameters:
- options : ObjectThe parameter to the request call.
- success : BooleanTrue if the request succeeded.
- response : ObjectThe XMLHttpRequest object containing the response data. See http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/ for details about accessing elements of the response.
- options : Object
- success : Function (Optional)The function to be called upon success of the request. The callback is passed the following parameters:
- response : ObjectThe XMLHttpRequest object containing the response data.
- options : ObjectThe parameter to the request call.
- response : Object
- failure : Function (Optional)The function to be called upon failure of the request. The callback is passed the following parameters:
- response : ObjectThe XMLHttpRequest object containing the response data.
- options : ObjectThe parameter to the request call.
- response : Object
- scope : Object (Optional)The scope in which to execute the callbacks: The "this" object for the callback function. If the url, or params options were specified as functions from which to draw values, then this also serves as the scope for those function calls. Defaults to the browser window.
- timeout : Number (Optional)The timeout in milliseconds to be used for this request. Defaults to 30 seconds.
- form : Element/HTMLElement/String (Optional)The <form> Element or the id of the <form> to pull parameters from.
- isUpload : Boolean (Optional)Only meaningful when used with the form option.
True if the form object is a file upload (will be set automatically if the form was configured with enctype "multipart/form-data").
File uploads are not performed using normal "Ajax" techniques, that is they are not performed using XMLHttpRequests. Instead the form is submitted in the standard manner with the DOM <form> element temporarily modified to have its target set to refer to a dynamically generated, hidden <iframe> which is inserted into the document but removed after the return data has been gathered.
The server response is parsed by the browser to create the document for the IFRAME. If the server is using JSON to send the return object, then the Content-Type header must be set to "text/html" in order to tell the browser to insert the text unchanged into the document body.
The response text is retrieved from the document, and a fake XMLHttpRequest object is created containing a responseText property in order to conform to the requirements of event handlers and callbacks.
Be aware that file upload packets are sent with the content type multipart/form and some server technologies (notably JEE) may require some custom processing in order to retrieve parameter names and parameter values from the packet content.
- headers : Object (Optional)
Request headers to set for the request.- xmlData : Object (Optional)
XML document to use for the post. Note: This will be used instead of params for the post data. Any params will be appended to the URL.- jsonData : Object/String (Optional)
JSON data to use as the post. Note: This will be used instead of params for the post data. Any params will be appended to the URL.- disableCaching : Boolean (Optional)
True to add a unique cache-buster param to GET requests.The options object may also contain any other property which might be needed to perform postprocessing in a callback because it is passed to callback functions.
- url : String/Function (Optional)
Returns
- Number
transactionId The id of the server transaction. This may be used to cancel the request.
Resume firing events. (see suspendEvents) If events were suspended using the queueSuspended parameter, then all events fired during event suspension will be sent to any listeners now.
Available since: 2.3.0
Suspend the firing of all events. (see resumeEvents)
Available since: 2.3.0
Parameters
- queueSuspended : Boolean
Pass as true to queue up suspended events to be fired after the resumeEvents call instead of discarding all suspended events;
Removes an event handler (shorthand for removeListener.)
Available since: 1.1.0
Parameters
- eventName : String
The type of event the handler was associated with.
- handler : Function
The handler to remove. This must be a reference to the function passed into the addListener call.
- scope : Object (optional)
The scope originally specified for the handler.
Events
Fires before a network request is made to retrieve a data object.
Available since: 1.1.0
Parameters
- conn : Connection
This Connection object.
- options : Object
The options config object passed to the request method.
Fires if the request was successfully completed.
Available since: 1.1.0
Parameters
- conn : Connection
This Connection object.
- response : Object
The XHR object containing the response data. See The XMLHttpRequest Object for details.
- options : Object
The options config object passed to the request method.
Fires if an error HTTP status was returned from the server. See HTTP Status Code Definitions for details of HTTP status codes.
Available since: 1.1.0
Parameters
- conn : Connection
This Connection object.
- response : Object
The XHR object containing the response data. See The XMLHttpRequest Object for details.
- options : Object
The options config object passed to the request method.