[OpenLayers-Users] Success! and one minor quirk :)

[Eric Lemoine]

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 5:05 AM, Stephen Woodbridge
<woodbri at swoodbridge.com> wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> Sorry for the very long delay in getting back to this, but life happens
> regardless of code :) Questions inline below ...
>
> Eric Lemoine wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Stephen Woodbridge
>> <woodbri at swoodbridge.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Eric and all,
>>>
>>> Thank you for your time and advice on this project, I think I finally
>>> have almost everything working. There is still some clean up to do and a
>>> few quirks that I'm not sure about. Oh and I need to add a user login so
>>> different users edits are kept separate, but that is just some minor
>>> coding at this point. Currently all edits are made to a test user table.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://imaptools.com:8080/tilecache/test.html?zoom=17&lat=33.89595&lon=35.49935&layers=BT
>>>
>>> So the one major annoyance left which I'm not sure what the issue is, is
>>> that, if I edit POI and say change its "type" or its "name" fields the
>>> POI on the vector layer should be destroyed and the new feature added
>>> back into the layer. This is in fact happening, BUT the display of the
>>> feature is not getting updated! until I click on the POI again.
>>>
>>> For example:
>>>
>>> 1) click left most tool
>>> 2) select the "TEST" (or any) POI near the center of the viewport
>>> 3) change its type and/or its name
>>> 4) click [Save]
>>> 5) notice the POI has not changed
>>> 6) click it once and it changes
>>> 7) click it again and the popup opens
>>>
>>> the protocol callback function is at line 422 of test.html and seems to
>>> be doing the right thing except updating the layer when the a feature is
>>> updated.
>>
>> I think the callback function is not called at all. Have you tried to
>> put a break point in this function? I think it's not called because
>> the save strategy gives protocol.commit its own callback. Instead of
>> setting "callback" in the protocol config, you should register
>> listeners to the save strategy's "success" and "fail" events, and do
>> the work there.
>
> You are correct the callback is not getting called. So if I understand you
> suggestion correctly it would consist of doing something like this:
>
> Openlayers.Request.events.on({
>  success: function(event){ ... do something here ... },
>  failure: function(event){ ... report problem here ... }
> });

Hi Stephen

no, I'm saying you can register to the save strategy's "sucess" and
"fail" events.

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