AJAX / JSON / AHAH interface of GenericPlugin

[justinasjaronis]

There is one thing that is a must for modern websites that Arkestra really lacks - generic asynchronious data supply interface, that would allow update content from Arkestra plugins not only via views and page reloads, but also using Javascript.

We are planning to start one project using Arkestra and this functionality is trivial to us, and we can contribute implementing it.

Use cases, in which we require fetch various data from Arkestra:

• In news and events CMS plugin instance, we would love to have "more news" button that would show older / not so important portion of news. Clicking it once again it would show even more.
• In news and events list page, we are required to display more news, when scroll hits the bottom (same as Facebook wall page works).
• Anywhere in news and events CMS plugin instance site and in news list page we require present filters for a visitor (category, importance, related entity and so on) which would trigger the queryset and display filtered records only.
• In contacts and people page, we need to implement dynamic filtering and display of relevant contacts to search query (preferably in real time).

Maybe someone has any thoughts about implementing this in elegant way that it would be usable for any other project?

[evildmp]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014, justinasjaronis notifications@github.com wrote:

There is one thing that is a must for modern websites that Arkestra really lacks - generic asynchronious data supply interface, that would allow update content from Arkestra plugins not only via views and page reloads, but also using Javascript.

We are planning to start one project using Arkestra and this functionality is trivial to us, and we can contribute implementing it.

Have you seen the recent work that I have moved into develop? It's not exactly what you're speaking of, but some of it - filtering, searching - is there.

You can see it in action at for example:

http://medicine.cardiff.ac.uk/previous-events/ http://medicine.cardiff.ac.uk/contact/

and of course: https://djangoweekend.org/previous-events/.

This filtering isn't in JS of course, and it does involve a page reload.

It works though for pretty large quantities of information, such as http://medicine.cardiff.ac.uk/publications-archive/ - 25 thousand items.

Maybe someone has any thoughts about implementing this in elegant way that it would be usable for any other project?

I'd love to talk more about it!

Daniele