perl & Asynchronous Javascript

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Re: perl & Asynchronous Javascript by shiza (Hermit) on Aug 10, 2005 at 20:49 UTC
All you need to do is return an valid XML document. You can also set content-type to text/xml which will automatically force it into an XML object when received by your Javascript.	[reply]
Re: perl & Asynchronous Javascript by jplindstrom (Monsignor) on Aug 10, 2005 at 21:05 UTC
I've only used HTML::Prototype (via Catalyst::Plugin::Prototype) a little, but it was a very pleasant experience. /J	[reply]
Re^2: perl & Asynchronous Javascript by cees (Curate) on Aug 10, 2005 at 21:17 UTC
You can do the same with CGI::Application through the CGI::Application::Plugin::HTMLPrototype plugin. It has a couple examples to show you how to use it as well. You don't have to change anything you do in CGI::Application when you use the prototype library. All AJAX calls are just standard GET or POST requests to your application, and the only difference is that usually you only return a small piece of HTML that gets placed into the existing page somewhere instead of returning a full HTML page.	[reply]
Re: perl & Asynchronous Javascript by gryphon (Abbot) on Aug 11, 2005 at 02:22 UTC
Greetings InfiniteLoop, As I mention here and here, I'm a big fan of JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) and the JSON.pm module from CPAN. When used with CGI::Application, you just return the JSON-created string out of the subroutine that's setup by setup instead of your normal template content. It's crazy-simple. Here's some sample code... Read more... (2 kB)	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: perl & Asynchronous Javascript by InfiniteLoop (Hermit) on Aug 11, 2005 at 14:39 UTC
Thanks a bunch [id://gryphon], this is most excellent help.	[reply]