Broken ajax links giving "unrecognized expression" error

[Ian W. Scott]

Some ajax links that used to work have just broken and I'm not sure where to start in debugging. The links target a load component on the page (using cid) and they have started throwing this error:

Syntax error, unrecognized expression: /paideia/plugin_listandedit/edit.load/word_forms/546?orderby=id&tablename=word_forms

The "unrecognized expression" is simply the url from the link. I've tried re-downloading the web2py source and updating web2py.js but neither seems to help. The only thing I've done that could have broken it is update to bootstrap3 using the package put together by Paolo Caruccio. But I don't know enough about web2py.js to guess where a conflict might lie.

Any suggestions?

[Niphlod]

do this come up in the browser's console ? if yes, what line do they target of what js file ?

[Ian W. Scott]

Yes, it's in the browser's console, and it's targeting jquery.js line 3.

[Niphlod]

can you pack a minimal app to reproduce the issue ?

[Ian W. Scott]

It'll take a bit of time, but I'll see what I can do.

[Ian W. Scott]

I found the culprit! The links were in a list with the bootstrap classes "nav nav-tabs". Because of that the bootstrap js was trying to use the link url to show a tab, but it was the wrong format. The implementation of bootstrap tabs must have changed between versions 2 and 3 enough that my ajax links could work before but now choked the bootstrap js.

Maybe this is something we should keep in mind as people migrate from bootstrap 2 to 3.

Anyway, thanks for your willingness to help Niphlod.