new style search - in need of Javascript help (probably)

[momijizukamori]

So the new style search has been almost beta-ready on my hack for a while now (NB: you will need an account on my hack to see it), but I've been stuck on a front-end problem. The search runs, returns all the matching themes in the database - except when you click to look at the next page of themes (or any page other than the first returned) everything resets and shows none of the themes. I think this is a JS/AJAX-y thing with the inline display of new content but Javascript is basically arcane magic to me, so I'm not sure. The branch is up to date on Github.

Comments

[fu]

In LJ::Widget::ThemeChooser.pm, try updating adding the advanced search flags to Customize.ThemeNav.updateContent

(haven't tested because I'd need to set up themes/workers first but that looks like the right starting place)

[momijizukamori]

I will try that! And yeah, while the branch is easy enough to pull down, the db changes are... not so much, haha

[momijizukamori]

Hmmm adding 'adv_search_flag: Customize.adv_search_flag' and 'adv_search: Customize.adv_search' there didn't seem to do anything (though it probably doesn't help that I have zero idea what I'm doing here)

[fu]

Hmm. Was it working in your other call to updateContent?

[momijizukamori]

I... have no idea. Basically with Perl I can kind of follow code flow, but JS is like 'PRESS BUTTON, STUFF HAPPENS????' and there are a bunch of different scripts running on the same page.

[fu]

Gotcha. And it doesn't help that this uses the old libraries so is particularly hard to work with. Hmmm.

Okay so basically when you click the link, it does a GET request to htdocs/tools/endpoints/widget.bml. Try debugging what gets posted/where that gets passed into; hopefully that helps!