Pushing Content with Data Requests
When making data requests, you may sometimes need to push content to the server to which you are connecting—for example, if you are pushing new user configuration settings to your server in order to update the database record for the user:
<label for="user"></label> <input type="text" name="user" id="user" /><br /> <label for="pass"></label> <input type="hidden" name="pass" id="pass" /> <button onclick="updateRecord();">Update User</button> <div id="response"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> function updateRecord(){ //set up url and post data var url = "http://www.mysite.com/updateUser.php"; var postData = "user=" + encodeURIComponent(document.getElementById("user").value) + "&pass=" + encodeURIComponent(document.getElementById("pass").value); //POST data object to URL osapi.http.post({ "href": url, "body": postData, "format": "text" }).execute(function(response){ document.getElementById("response").innerHTML = "Data Posted"; }); } </script>
Note
The full code for this sample is available at https://github.com/jcleblanc/programming-social-applications/blob/master/chapter_6/data_request_content.html.
In our POST request, we set up the markup to allow a user to
input her username and password. These values represent the information
that we will pass to the server to update the user record. We also set
up a div
to display a confirmation
that the message was sent. When the user clicks the button, the updateRecord()
function will be executed.
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