Custom Plugin Form Handling

[David Payt]

I have written a custom Jenkins plugin that provides build-steps and a few Jelly pages. I now need to implement some administration functions that can manipulate my plugin's state and also trigger jobs.

I assume that between Jelly and Stapler, that Jenkins already has From-data-binding and AJAX-calling well-established; but I can't seem to figure out how to pull it off in my own stand-alone Jelly file.

I am trying to use the "Validation Button" approach by employing the form tag library (xmlns:f="/lib/form") in a Jelly file (e.g. http://localhost:8000/jenkins/plugin/myPlugin/administration) but my browser fails to find the Javascript method called "validateButton()". I tracked this method to the hudson-behavior.js which itself depends on other javascript objects.

What is the best way to create a form and form-handling in stand-alone Jelly files (e.g. not embedded Jelly files like config.jelly)? Preferably with automated data-binding and via AJAX calls?

Thanks

- David Payt

[Daniel Beck]

Are you using l:layout?

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[David Payt]

I was not using l:layout and had gotten by using jelly:core, HTML, and ${it} to render pages. This is my first foray into forms.

I just wrapped my content into layout tags:

<l:layout title="Node Details">
    <l:header>

        ...

    </l:header>
    <l:main-panel>

        ...

    </l:main-panel>
</l:layout>

And the validateButton function error has gone away but been replaced by:

prototype.js:5878: Uncaught TypeError: element.dispatchEvent is not a function

breadcrumbs.js:256: Uncaught TypeError: $(...).addClassName is not a function

at load-time and:

hudson-behavior.js:2865: Uncaught TypeError: $(...).up is not a function

at button click time.

I will continue to learn more about the layout tags on my own, but can you recommend a good resource for learning about this?

Thanks

- David Payt

[David Payt]

My problem was I had a jquery script that conflicted with prototype. Ok. No more errors, but now I need to learn how to data-bind the form submission.

- David