Continue: Question about the flash message

[Terry]

Hi John, 

Thanks for your reply of my previous post. 

My requirement is to show the "create entry successfully" message in the index page (or page_list page) after user submits the add . So look at following code in the ajaxtodo example,

    public String create() {

        ActiveRecord newEntry = null;

        try {

            newEntry = Entry.newRecord();

            newEntry.setData(params());

            newEntry.save();

            flash("notice", "Entry was successfully created.");

        }

        catch(Exception ex) {

            log.error("Error in create() caused by " + ex.getMessage());

            flash("error", "There was a problem creating the entry record.");

        }

        

        setViewData("entry", newEntry);

        setViewData("entries", Entry.findAll());

        return renderView("index");

    }

In my test, there is no message showed up. But if I change the return to  "return redirectTo("/entries");" , I can get it. (But there will be a refresh on the page, non ajax any more)

Any comments?

[John Chen]

Using redirect will be like sending a new non-ajax request.

The correct way to make it work is to put those AJAX-code in index.jsp file.