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jsViews $.observable(arr).insert() not triggering DOM update

I am using $.observable(array).insert() to append items to a list. This is updating my view as it should: new list items are rendered to the DOM. However, I would like to issue a click event on the new DOM node (I'm relying on the event to add a class to expand the item and attach another listener to the body so the area can be closed).
I have tried both
$.observable(_model.leadTimes).insert(leadTime);
$leadTimes.find('.lead-time-data').last().find('.start-editing').click();
...and
function watchLeadTimes() {
var changeHandler = function (ev, eventArgs) {
if (eventArgs.change === 'insert') {
$leadTimes.find('.lead-time-data').last().find('.start-editing').click();
}
};
$.observe(_model.leadTimes, changeHandler);
}
And neither of them worked, however, if I wrap the jQuery method in a setTimout, like setTimeout(function () { $leadTimes.find('.lead-time-data').last().find('.start-editing').click(); }, 400);, it does work, leading me to believe this is an issue of timing with the DOM render somehow not finishing before my jQuery click() method is invoked.
Since the odds are decent that you will see this, Borris, thank you for the library and all that you do! I think jsViews is an excellent middle ground between the monolithic frameworks out there and plain old jQuery noodling!
Edit 02/09/17
It turns out my issue was overlapping click events--I was inadvertently handling a click to deselect my element immediately after it was selected. However I took the opportunity to rewrite things to use a more declarative approach following Borris' linked example.
Now in my template I am using a computed observable, isSelected to toggle the .editing class:
{^{for leadTimes}}
<tr class="lead-time-data" data-link="class{merge:~isSelected() toggle='editing'}">
<span>{^{:daysLead}}</span>
</tr>
{{/for}}
And this JS:
function addNewLeadTimeClickHandler() {
var onNewLeadTimeClick = function () {
e.stopPropagation(); // this is what I was missing
var leadTime = {
daysLead: 1,
description: ''
};
$.observable(_model.activityMapping.leadTimes).insert(leadTime);
selectLeadtime(_model.activityMapping.leadTimes.length -1);
}
$leadTimes.on('click', '.add', onNewLeadTimeClick);
}
function selectLeadtime(index) {
var addStopEditingClickHandler = function () {
var onClickHandler = function (event) {
if ($(event.target).closest('tr').hasClass('editing')) {
setHandler();
return;
}
selectLeadtime(-1)
};
function setHandler() {
var clickEvent = 'click.ActivityChangeRequestDetailController-outside-edit-row';
$('html:not(.edit)').off(clickEvent).one(clickEvent, onClickHandler);
};
setHandler();
}
if (_model.selectedLeadtimeIndex !== index) {
$.observable(_model).setProperty('selectedLeadtimeIndex', index)
addStopEditingClickHandler();
}
}
function isSelected() {
var view = this;
return this.index === _model.selectedLeadtimeIndex;
}
// isSelected.depends = ["_model^selectedLeadtimeIndex"];
// for some reason I could not get the above .depends syntax to work
// ...or "_model.selectedLeadtimeIndex" or "_model.selectedLeadtimeIndex"
// but this worked ...
isSelected.depends = function() {return [_model, "selectedLeadtimeIndex"]};

The observable insert() method is synchronous. If your list items are rendered simply using {^{for}}, then that is also synchronous, so you should not need to use setTimeout, or a callback. (There are such callbacks available, but you should not need them for this scenario.)
See for example http://www.jsviews.com/#samples/editable/tags (code here):
$.observable(movies).insert({...});
// Set selection on the added item
app.select($.view(".movies tr:last").index);
The selection is getting added, synchronously, on the newly inserted item.
Do you have other asynchronous code somewhere in your rendering?
BTW generally you don't need to add new click handlers to added elements, if you use the delegate pattern. For example, in the same sample, a click handler to remove a movie is added initially to the container "#movieList" with a delegate selector ".removeMovie" (See code). That will work even for movies added later.
The same scenario works using {{on}} See http://www.jsviews.com/#link-events: "The selector argument can target elements that are added later"

Multiple events fired in jquery function

I have html grid table consisting of comment link in each row.Clicking on any one opens a bootstrap modal with textbox and save button.So I wrote a library consisting of functions related to that comment system.Below is basic code.
HTML :
<td><a class="addComment" data-notedate="somevalue" data-toggle='modal' href='#addnotesdiv' data-oprid="somevalue" data-soid="somevalue" data-type="1"><i class="fa fa-comments-o fa-2"></i></a></td> ..... n
JS :
var Inventory={};
Inventory.notes={
defaults:{
type:'1',
soid:0,
operator_id:0,
date:'',
target:'div#addnotesdiv',
},
init:function()
{
var self=this;
$('div#addnotesdiv').on('show.bs.modal',function(e){
self.getandsetdefaults(e);
self.setmodalelements(e);
self.getNotes();
self.addnote();
self.activaterefresh();
});
},
getandsetdefaults:function(e)
{
this.defaults.soid = $(e.relatedTarget).data('soid');
this.defaults.operator_id=$(e.relatedTarget).data('oprid');
this.defaults.type=$(e.relatedTarget).data('type');
this.defaults.date=$(e.relatedTarget).data('notedate');
},
setmodalelements:function(e)
{
$(e.currentTarget).find('#notesthread').empty();
$(e.currentTarget).find('input#inpnotesoid').val(this.defaults.soid);
$(e.currentTarget).find('input#inpnoteoprid').val(this.defaults.operator_id);
$(e.currentTarget).find('input#inpnotetype').val(this.defaults.type);
},
addnote:function()
{
var self=this;
$('button#btnaddnote').on('click',function(){
var message=$(self.defaults.target).find('textarea#addnotemsg').val();
var soid=$(self.defaults.target).find('input[type=hidden][id=inpnotesoid]').val();
var note_date=$(self.defaults.target).find('input#addnotedate').val();
var oprid=$(self.defaults.target).find('input[type=hidden][id=inpnoteoprid]').val();
var type=$(self.defaults.target).find('input[type=hidden][id=inpnotetype]').val();
if(message=="" || soid=="" || note_date=="")
{
alert("Fill all details");
return;
}
var savenote=$.post(HOST+'notes/save',{message:message,soid:soid,note_date:note_date,type:type,operator_id:oprid});
savenote.done(function(res){
res=$.parseJSON(res);
if(res.status && res.error){
alert(res.message);
return;
}
if(res.status && res.type)
{
$('div#addnotemsg').showSuccess("Done").done(function(){self.getNotes();});
$('div#addnotesdiv').find('textarea#addnotemsg').val('');
}
else
{
$('div#addnotemsg').showFailure("Error");
}
});
});
},
getNotes:function()
{
$('button#btnrefreshcomments i').addClass('glyphicon-refresh-animate');
var getnotes=$.getJSON(HOST,{soid:this.defaults.soid,type:this.defaults.type,note_date:this.defaults.date,operator_id:this.defaults.operator_id});
getnotes.done(function(res){
if(res.status && res.data.length)
{
--somecode---
}
});
},
activaterefresh:function(){
var self=this;
$(document).on('click','#btnrefreshcomments',function(){
$('#notesthread').empty();
self.getNotes();
return false;
});
return false;
}
}
In Order to activate this functionality on that page I wrote
Inventory.notes.init();
Above code works perfectly when I open modal once but when I close that same modal and open it again but by clicking on different link all events are fired twice,thrice and so on.Number of events fired is equal to number of times modal opened on that page.
Is there any thing wrong in code Or any other way to perform this same task.
I know this is not a plugin all I wanted was to store all functionality related to comment system under one roof as library.

every time you open the modal box, it triggered show.bs.modal event, then all methods was exec again, including the event bindings. e.g. event bind in [addnote]
$('div#addnotesdiv').on('show.bs.modal',function(e){
self.getandsetdefaults(e);
self.setmodalelements(e);
self.getNotes();
self.addnote();
self.activaterefresh();
});

Problem was whenever modal was shown getNotes,addnote,activatereferesh functions were called but when the modal was reopened again this functions are called again so thats twice and so on.Putting it in more simpler way is there were multiple listeners attached to single element without destroying previous one because my init function was called many times.
At last there were two solutions in both I need to unbind events or attach them only once.Got idea from here
1) Modified Init function with below code and added one unbind listener function
init:function(selector)
{
var self=this;
$(self.defaults.target).on('show.bs.modal',function(e){
self.getandsetdefaults(e);
self.setmodalelements(e);
self.getNotes();
self.addnote();
self.activaterefresh();
});
$(self.defaults.target).on('hide.bs.modal',function(e){
self.unbindlistners();
});
}
unbindlistners:function()
{
var self=this;
$('#btnrefreshcomments').unbind('click');
$('button#btnaddnote').unbind('click');
return false;
}
}
2) Place event binding function outside show.bs.modal
init:function(selector)
{
var self=this;
$(self.defaults.target).on('show.bs.modal',function(e){
self.getandsetdefaults(e);
self.setmodalelements(e);
});
self.getNotes();
self.addnote();
self.activaterefresh();
}
There is small catch in second solution that is when first time my DOM is loaded function getNotes function is called with default values.

Calling function based on previously called function

Is there anyway to call a function when for example pressing a close button on a modal window that will take different action depending on the function that opened the modal window?
So say for example we had a landing page with items to click on that showed a image of that item in a modal window and a certain function was called when the image was opened from this context and we had a search side nav-bar that displayed items and when these were clicked the function that opened the modal windows was different from the first. Now when closing the modal window, and depending on the function that was called to open the modal, I would like to write a condition that would allow me to either go back to landing page or return to side nav-bar.
I don't have any code to show, but I was wondering if such a thing is possible; writing a condition based on the function that was previously called? What would be the command for that condition?
So
function 1 () {
doSomething;
}
function 2 () {
doAnotherThing;
}
$("closeButton").on('click', function () {
if (function 1 was called) {
// do something else
} else if (function2 was called) {
// do another thing
}
}
Could something like that be possible?

var fnClicked = null
function fn1() {
fnClicked = fn1;
doSomething();
}
function fn2() {
fnClicked = fn2;
doAnotherThing();
}
$('closeButton').on('click', function(){
if (fnClicked === fn1) {
//do something else
} else if (fnClicked === fn2) {
//do another thing
}
});
Alternatively you could hav fn1 and fn2 unbind the closebutton click event and rebind it to the appropriate followup.

In an MVC framework, you can bind a property to the related view. If not, you can always keep bind state to the window object.
If you also don't want to do that, you can keep the state in the DOM (the close button) as an attribute. For example, a data-attribute.
$("closeButton").on('click', function (e) {
var state = $(e.currentTarget).data("state");
}

You can use data attributes on the modal element to store info that indicates what area the modal was opened from. Then when closing the modal, look in that attribute and decide what to do based on the value stored there when the modal was opened.

Variables can store references to functions in Javascript. So I would have function1 set some internal variable that would be checked when you close the modal:
var calledBy;
function1 () {
calledBy = function1;
//open modal
}
function2 () {
calledBy = function2;
//open modal
}
$("closeButton").on("click", function () {
if(calledBy === function1) {
//...
} else if(calledBy === function2) {
//...
}
});
But as hyperstack pointed out, it's better organization to have one function for opening the modal and pass in an argument. I would have an object for the modal:
var modal = {
//...
calledBy: null,
open: functio (calledBy) {
this.calledBy = calledBy;
}
};

You can use the 'this' special keyword to refer to the object on which a method is being invoked.
EG.
<div class="cval">
test
</div>
<script>
$(".cval").click(function (e) {
e.preventDefault();
alert($(this).attr('class'));
if($(this).attr('class') == 'cval')
//dosomething
else
//dosomething
});
</script>
Interrogating any of the elements attribute(s) for value and then using a conditional to control flow.

Javascript or jQuery is caching my javascript variable. How do I reset this?

I have an AJAX call as such :
$('a.delete_task').live('click', function() {
$this = $(this);
function deleteFunction(){
var obj = $this.parents('.task');
$(obj).addClass('highlighted');
$.post($this.attr('href'), { _method: 'delete' }, function(data) {
if ( $single_item_collection == true ) {
} else {
};
});
};
SSK.confirm_delete($this, deleteFunction, "task");
return false;
});
And then I take my deleteFunction() and throw it into the delete_confirmation :
$(function(){
window.SSK = new(Class.extend({
confirm_delete: function(obj, action, label){
$(".confirm-deletion").live("click", function(){
action.call(obj);
$(this).parents("#delete-message").fadeOut();
return false;
});
},
The problem is that when I click it the first time it works. When I click it the second time, it passes through the first $(this), and the second $(this). Likewise, when I click another item for a third time, it tries and pass all three and so on.
Somehow it is caching $(this). As crazy as that is. And passing it everytime the method is passed again.
Confirm delete as a function creates a popup and passes the method of the link you originally clicked to it as the variable obj.
Then if you click confirm it does this :
$(".confirm-deletion").live("click", function(){
action.call(obj);
$(this).parents("#delete-message").fadeOut();
return false;
});

You are adding a click event to the element 'confirm-deletion' every single time the user clicks 'delete_task'. That's why the click event is firing multiple times, it's literally been added multiple times.

No, it's surely not crazy caching. Read https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/this and rewrite confirm_delete and/or deleteFunction.
I'm quite sure that you need to put $(this) in a caching value in the click-handler closure, and then use that in deleteFunction.

Need to clear a function memory. jQuery running function too many times

Initially, I had a problem that a click event was firing multiple times, but I have managed to overcome that with a probably over use of unbind() and one() as you'll see in my code below!
What I have here is some code which opens up a universally usable Modal window which I use for various things, including, in some cases a password form.
I don't think you need the HTML so I won't post that.
When a button, or an action causes the window to be required, I call the function like this:
showModalAlert(type, theWidth, theHeight, title, html, confirmThis, denyThis)
The first three variables determine how the window will look, title and html determine the content and confirmThis and denyThis are functions set immediately prior to calling this function and determine what the action should be if this is a confirm window and the confirm or deny buttons are press.
In the case of a security window, the confirm button is replace by a "sign it" button which submits a simple password form and returns a User Id from database. If a User Id is successfully returned, the script programatically presses the confirm button and in turn runs it's function as per the call to the inital opening of the modal window.
My problem is that if an incorrect password is entered, or a user cancels the window and then later without refreshing the browser window, re-enters the password correctly, the confirmThis() function is performed twice (or as many times as the incorrect password/cancel action was performed).
So, clearly, what it is doing is "remembering" the confirmThis function each time.
As I said, initially, the password success function was clicking confirmIt twice, copious use of one() has fixed this, it is now definitely only clicking confirmIt once, but it is still performing the function multiple time.
How can I clear this function and ensure it is only performed once?
The function from which I am calling the modal window looks like this:
$('#saveDelivery').click(function () {
function confirmIt() {
formData = (JSON.stringify($('#delDetail').serializeObject()));
saveData(formData);
$('#saveDelivery').removeClass('centreLoader');
};
showModalAlert('security', '300px', '185px', 'Security!', 'You need to "Sign" this action.', confirmIt, '');
});
It's simply a click on the saveDelivery element, the confirmThis function is declared at this point and submits an AJAX form
the actual showModalAlert function is below:
function showModalAlert(type, theWidth, theHeight, title, html, confirmThis, denyThis) {
// stuff that opens the alert window \\
if (confirmThis == '') {
$('#confirmIt').one('click', function () { $('#closeAlert').one('click').click(); });
} else {
$('#confirmIt').one('click', function () { confirmThis(); $('#closeAlert').one('click').click(); });
};
if (denyThis == '') {
$('#denyIt').one('click', function () { $('#closeAlert').one('click').click(); $('#signIt').unbind(); });
} else {
$('#denyIt').one('click', function () { denyThis(); $('#closeAlert').one('click').click(); $('#signIt').unbind(); });
};
if (type == "confirm") {
$('.closeAlert, .signItForm').hide();
};
if (type == "alert") {
$('.alertConfirm, .signItForm').hide();
};
if (type == "fixedAlert") {
$('.closeAlert, .alertConfirm, .signItForm').hide();
};
if (type == "security") {
$('.signItForm').show();
$('.closeAlert').hide();
$('#confirmIt').hide();
$('#signIt').unbind().fadeTo('fast',1);
};
};
$('#signIt').live('click', function () {
var formData = (JSON.stringify($('.secureSign').serializeObject()));
var signitPwd = $('#signItpwd').val();
var jsonURL = "/jsonout/getdata.aspx?sql=SELECT id, password FROM users WHERE password ='" + signitPwd + "' LIMIT 1&output=json&usedb=new&labelName=any&fileName=";
$.getJSON(jsonURL, function (data) {
if (data.length > 0) {
$('.savingUserID').val(data[0].id);
$('#confirmIt').one('click').click();
$('#signIt').fadeTo('fast', 0);
$('#confirmIt').show();
} else {
$('#signIt').fadeTo('fast', 0);
$('#confirmIt').one('click').show();
$('.closeAlert').show();
$('.alertConfirm, .signItForm').hide();
$('#alertTitle').html("Error!");
$('#alertContent').css({ 'text-align': 'center' }).html("Password Denied");
};
});
});

From my understanding of $.one, it merely runs the event ONCE. If you bind it twice to the event, it will run twice instantaneously, but no more.
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/qCwMH/ (click the button, and it will run the event 4 times).
Each time you click saveDelivery, you are infact, binding another $.one event to #confirmIt.
What you could do is unbind your events from confirmIt and denyIt at the start of the modal function (i.e. $('#confirmIt, #denyIt').unbind('click');, and then you will assign them fresh each time that function is called, rather than building on top of them. Not ideal, as binding/unbinding uses more resources than other options, but just give that a try to start with perhaps?