How do I use external scripts in controls, with brittle-old-atlas?

Hi, I realise Atlas is still in preview, but unfortunately it doesnt stop customer's demands :(

I've a server control that will not work with Atlas. I've whittled the problem down to this external script line.

<script type='text/javascript'src='/AtlasWebSite1/WebResource.axd?d=Q25Q6XUyjAkwUhmccPLXSM0tUH1gG8pvBlJoQRJbY9aaHhPMSqiC1p5xfcybhbNW0&t=632864860774426576'></script
This is registered with Page.ClientScriptBlock (I know ASP.NET2 hasdifferent syntax, but my control needs to support .NET1.x so the codeis easier to leave as is - it works with ASP.NET2 just fine).

Here's the kicker, the embedded script referred to above is just a small JS file with everything commented out.

If I don't register the script, the page works, if I do register thescript, then my simple little page with an UpdatePanel fails to updatewhen a postback happens. Please refer to my earlier post on thesame problem for the actual aspx pagehttp://forums.asp.net/thread/1318847.aspx

The script line above appears in the rendered code in the correct place

<form name="form1" method="post" action="default.aspx" id="form1">
<div>
<input type="hidden" name="__EVENTTARGET" id="__EVENTTARGET" value="" />
<input type="hidden" name="__EVENTARGUMENT" id="__EVENTARGUMENT" value="" />
<input type="hidden" name="__VIEWSTATE" id="__VIEWSTATE" value="/wEPDwUKMTUxNzQwOTU4NGRkq48mV8BeUZdYRTUdUDPaQYzABY0=" />
</div
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
var theForm = document.forms['form1'];
if (!theForm) {
theForm = document.form1;
}
function __doPostBack(eventTarget, eventArgument) {
if (!theForm.onsubmit || (theForm.onsubmit() != false)) {
theForm.__EVENTTARGET.value = eventTarget;
theForm.__EVENTARGUMENT.value = eventArgument;
theForm.submit();
}
}
// -->
</script
<scriptsrc="/AtlasWebSite1/WebResource.axd?d=j0rVreGbmSimbg9M6s2qsQ2&t=632664387855935408"type="text/javascript"></script
<script type='text/javascript'src='/AtlasWebSite1/WebResource.axd?d=Q25Q6XUyjAkwUhmccPLXSM0tUH1gG8pvBlJoQRJbY9aaHhPMSqiC1p5xfcybhbNW0&t=632864860774426576'></script>
<scriptsrc="/AtlasWebSite1/WebResource.axd?d=54M5uwSCeXbt-9RcBz6eJhoLCWzKoHQwr2lSlhMfje5UujTbQRmzoYchP9raCFP-DuKdJD-p3797xBuSlThWYjMbKGo2sE0aMGILTXQ7J-Y1&t=632799255520000000"type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://pics.10026.com/?src=atlasglob.axd" type="text/javascript"></script>
<div>
<div id="UpdatePanel1">

Any and all help gratefully received, thanks!

JimHas nobody else experienced this?

I've reproduced it with a simple control that does nothing more than register an embedded script (which is empty).

Thanks
Jim
Turns out it works OK in Firefox, just not in IE6. Kind of ironic.

Please somebody, put me out of my misery!

Jim

Nevermind, I've had to work around it, looks like a bug in Atlas :(

How can I use bridging with AutoCompleteExtender?

I would like to use external webservice to get data in AutoCompleteExtender instead of having local .txt file as specified in ATLAS documentation/exmples.

.asbx is correctly registered in IIS. I have created a bridge file ServerAutoComplete.asbx like...

<?

xmlversion="1.0"encoding="utf-8" ?>
<bridgenamespace="Samples.AspNet"className="BridgeServerAutoComplete" >
<proxytype="CatalogReader, App_Code" />
<methodname="GetWordList">
<input>
<parametername="prefixText"/>
<parametername="count" />
</input>
</method>
</bridge>

where CatalogReader is class of my webservice which is hosted on another server.

I have following settings in my ServerAutoComplete.aspx page forScriptManagerandAutoCompleteExtender.

<atlas:ScriptManagerID="AtlasPage1"runat="server">
<Services>
<atlas:ServiceReferencePath="~/ServerAutoComplete.asbx"/>
</Services>
</atlas:ScriptManager>

...

<

asp:TextBoxID="TextBox1"runat="server"></asp:TextBox>

<atlas:AutoCompleteExtenderID="autoComplete1"runat="server">
<atlas:AutoCompletePropertiesEnabled="True"MinimumPrefixLength="1"ServiceMethod="GetWordList"ServicePath="ServerAutoComplete.asbx"TargetControlID="TextBox1"/>
</atlas:AutoCompleteExtender>

...

Now when I run ServerAutoComplete.aspx page I am not getting any AutoComplete words.

My question is how can I set this whole set-up working? How can I set parameters of webservice method from AutoCompleteProperties?

Am I missing any step?

Thanks,

Vishant

Hi Vishant,

So the easiest way for you to pass parameters to the bridge in this scenario would be on the query string.

First you'll need to enable get for your bridge service, which you can do by adding:

<methodname="GetWordList" getEnabled="true">

Now you can hit the bridge using a url like: http:yourserver/ServerAutoComplexe.asbx?mn=GetWordList&prefixText=<text>&count=<count>, you should verify that using the browser and make sure that you get some JSON back...

That being said, I'm not sure there's an easy to pass these on the query string from AutoComplete. The best option would be to add a <binding> for the serviceUrl of the autocompleteproperteries where you specify a custom javascript transform method, i.e. transform="GetServiceUrl", and this method returns "ServerAutoComplete.asbx?prefixText="+document.getElementById("TextBox1").value and you also add the count parameter in there as well.

That should work, I think...

Hope that helps,
-Hao

Hi Hao,

Thanks for your reply.

I enabled "get" on my bridge service as you have mentioned but when I hit browser with "http:yourserver/ServerAutoComplexe.asbx?mn=GetWordList&prefixText=<text>&count=<count>" it does not give any JSON. Is this the exact syntax should I use?

I also could not find</binding>tag anywhere in documentation. Is this new tag forAutoCompleteProperties? I put it as shown below but no result.Does this syntax is correct?

<atlas:AutoCompletePropertiesEnabled="True"MinimumPrefixLength="1"ServiceMethod="GetWordList"ServicePath="~/ServerAutoComplete.asbx"TargetControlID="TextBox1">
<bindingtransform="GetServiceUrl"></binding>
</atlas:AutoCompleteProperties>

I know I am asking too much but I am new to ATLAS and JSON. It would be great if you can please provide step by step instruction or syntax?

Vishant

So you'll want to hit the real URL of your server with the browser, not http:yourserver..., you'll also want to give real data to your service.

Taking a step back, what is does your ServerAutoComplete.asbx look like?

But the real situation is that currently the AutoCompleteExtender does not really have a good story for hitting a bridge rather than an explicit webservice as its expecting, the option I listed above is more of a workaround/hack given the existing situation.

Hope that helps,
-Hao