StatefulSnippet doesn't really want to remember its state.

[Vladislav Dorokhin]

Hi everyone. I cannot figure out what is wrong with code below. It just keeps printing  the initial values (through S.error). Can someone tell me what I am missing? Thanks in advance. Please disregard code duplication, I will get rid of it as soon as I get this code to work. 

class AnalyticsForm extends StatefulSnippet {

  private var timePeriod = ""

  private var statType: String = ""

  private var partners: List[String] = Nil

  def dispatch = {

    case _ => bindForm _

  }

  def processQuery() = {

    S.error(("Time period id: %s\n " +

      "Statistics type id: %s" +

      "Partners list of ids: %s" ).format(timePeriod, statType, partners))

  }

  def bindForm(xhtml: NodeSeq): NodeSeq = {

    val possiblePartners: List[(String, String)] = MarketingPartner.findAll(OrderBy(MarketingPartner.id, Ascending))

      .map(x => (x.id.toString, x.title.toString))

    val timePeriodOptions: List[(String, String)] = promotePairStringsFrom("time_period")

    val statTypeOptions: List[(String, String)] = promotePairStringsFrom("type")

    bind("entry", xhtml,

      "time_period" -> SHtml.select(timePeriodOptions, S.param("time_period"), timePeriod = _, "name" -> "time_period"),

      "type" -> SHtml.select(statTypeOptions, S.param("type"), statType = _, "name" -> "type"),

      "partner" -> SHtml.multiSelect(("-1", "All") :: possiblePartners, S.params("partner"), partners = _, "name" -> "partner"),

      "submit" -> SHtml.submit("Update", processQuery)

    )

  }

...

}

The part of index.html which makes use of the snippet: 

    <div>

        <lift:AnalyticsForm form="POST">

            <div class="span-4">

                <span><strong>Choose time period:</strong></span><br/>

                <entry:time_period/>

            </div>

            <div class="span-6">

                <span><strong>Statistics type</strong></span><br/>

                <entry:type/>

            </div>

            <div class="span-3">

                <span><strong>Partners</strong></span>

                <entry:partner/>

            </div>

            <div style="float:right"><entry:submit/></div>

        </lift:AnalyticsForm>

    </div>

[Diego Medina]

Nothing sticks out as totally wrong there (but then again, it's 4 am here)

how about:

1- Change from bind to css transformation [1] (not necessary, but css
transformation is the way to go these days)
2- Change the SHtml.select for SHtml.text , just to make it simpler
3- If that still does not work, put together a sample app[2] and I'll
help you get it working

[1]http://simply.liftweb.net/index-7.10.html
[2]https://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/liftweb/Posting_example_code

Regards,

Diego

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[Vladislav Dorokhin]

Hi Diego, 

I found out what was. Explicit name setting prevented some internal plumbing from working. When I removed the parts of code marked red, everything started rolling as it was supposed to. Thank you!

[Diego Medina]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 3:50 AM, Vladislav Dorokhin <ado...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Diego,
>
> I found out what was. Explicit name setting prevented some internal plumbing
> from working. When I removed the parts of code marked red, everything
> started rolling as it was supposed to. Thank you!

I'm glad everything is working now.

Diego

>
>> bind("entry", xhtml,
>>       "time_period" -> SHtml.select(timePeriodOptions,
>> S.param("time_period"), timePeriod = _, "name" -> "time_period"),
>>       "type" -> SHtml.select(statTypeOptions, S.param("type"), statType =
>> _, "name" -> "type"),
>>       "partner" -> SHtml.multiSelect(("-1", "All") :: possiblePartners,
>> S.params("partner"), partners = _, "name" -> "partner"),
>>       "submit" -> SHtml.submit("Update", processQuery)
>> )
>
>