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App.Content Class

Module: app-content
Parent Module: app

Available since 3.7.0

Y.App extension that provides pjax-style content fetching and handling.

This makes it easy to fetch server rendered content for URLs using Ajax. The HTML content returned from the server will be view-ified and set as the app's main content, making it seamless to use a mixture of server and client rendered views.

When the "app-content" module is used, it will automatically mix itself into Y.App, and it provides three main features:

  • Y.App.Content.route: A stack of middleware which forms a pjax-style content route.

  • loadContent(): Route middleware which load content from a server. This makes an Ajax request for the requested URL, parses the returned content and puts it on the route's response object.

  • showContent(): Method which provides an easy way to view-ify HTML content which should be shown as an app's active/visible view.

The following is an example of how these features can be used:

// Creates a new app and registers the "post" view.
var app = new Y.App({
    views: {
        post: {type: Y.PostView}
    }
});

// Uses a simple server rendered content route for the About page.
app.route('/about/', Y.App.Content.route);

// Uses the loadContent() middleware to fetch the contents of the post
// from the server and shows that content in a "post" view.
app.route('/posts/:id/', 'loadContent', function (req, res, next) {
    this.showContent(res.content.node, {view: 'post'});
});

Methods

_contentRoute

(
  • req
  • res
  • next
)
protected

Defined in app/js/app-extensions/app-content.js:180

Available since 3.7.0

Provides a default content route which will show a server rendered view.

Note: This route callback assumes that it's called after the loadContent() middleware.

Parameters:

  • req Object

    Request object.

  • res Object

    Response Object.

  • next Function

    Function to pass control to the next route callback.

_onPjaxIOComplete

(
  • id
  • ioResponse
  • details
)
protected

Inherited from PjaxContent: pjax/js/pjax-content.js:159

Available since 3.7.0

Handles IO complete events.

This parses the content from the Y.io() response and puts it on the route's response object.

Parameters:

  • id String

    The Y.io transaction id.

  • ioResponse Object

    The Y.io response object.

  • details Object

    Extra details carried through from loadContent().

_onPjaxIOEnd

(
  • id
  • details
)
protected

Inherited from PjaxContent: pjax/js/pjax-content.js:189

Available since 3.5.0

Handles IO end events.

Parameters:

  • id String

    The Y.io transaction id.

  • details Object

    Extra details carried through from loadContent().

getContent

(
  • responseText
)
Object

Inherited from PjaxContent: pjax/js/pjax-content.js:38

Available since 3.5.0

Extracts and returns the relevant HTML content from an Ajax response. The content is extracted using the contentSelector attribute as a CSS selector. If contentSelector is null, the entire response will be returned.

The return value is an object containing two properties:

  • node: A Y.Node instance for a document fragment containing the extracted HTML content.

  • title: The title of the HTML page, if any, extracted using the titleSelector attribute (which defaults to looking for a <title> element). If titleSelector is not set or if a title could not be found, this property will be undefined.

Parameters:

  • responseText String

    Raw Ajax response text.

Returns:

Object: Content object with the properties described above.

loadContent

(
  • req
  • res
  • next
)

Inherited from PjaxContent: pjax/js/pjax-content.js:83

Available since 3.7.0

Pjax route middleware to load content from a server. This makes an Ajax request for the requested URL, parses the returned content and puts it on the route's response object.

This is route middleware and not intended to be the final callback for a route. This will add the following information to the route's request and response objects:

  • req.ioURL: The full URL that was used to make the Y.io() XHR. This may contain "pjax=1" if the addPjaxParam option is set.

  • res.content: An object containing node and title properties for the content extracted from the server's response. See getContent() for more details.

  • res.ioResponse: The full Y.io() response object. This is useful if you need access to the XHR's response status or HTTP headers.

Parameters:

  • req Object

    Request object.

  • res Object

    Response Object.

  • next Function

    Function to pass control to the next route callback.

Example:

router.route('/foo/', 'loadContent', function (req, res, next) {
    Y.one('container').setHTML(res.content.node);
    Y.config.doc.title = res.content.title;
});

showContent

(
  • content
  • [options]
  • [callback]
)

Defined in app/js/app-extensions/app-content.js:75

Available since 3.7.0

Sets this app's activeView attribute using the specified content.

This provides an easy way to view-ify HTML content which should be shown as this app's active/visible view. This method will determine the appropriate view container node based on the specified content. By default, a new Y.View instance will be created unless options.view is specified.

Under the hood, this method calls the showView() method, so refer to its docs for more information.

Parameters:

  • content HTMLElement | Node | String

    The content to show, it may be provided as a selector string, a DOM element, or a Y.Node instance.

  • [options] Object optional

    Optional objects containing any of the following properties in addition to any showView() options:

    • [view] Object | String optional

      The name of a view defined in this app's views, or an object with the following properties:

      • name String
        The name of a view defined in this app's views.
      • [config] Object optional
        Optional configuration to use when creating the new view instance. This config object can also be used to update an existing or preserved view's attributes when options.update is true. **Note:** If a container is specified, it will be overridden by the content specified in the first argument.
  • [callback] Function optional

    Optional callback function to call after the new activeView is ready to use. Note: this will override options.callback and it can be specified as either the second or third argument. The function will be passed the following:

    • view View

      A reference to the new activeView.

Properties

route

Array static

Defined in app/js/app-extensions/app-content.js:59

Available since 3.7.0

A stack of middleware which forms a pjax-style content route.

This route will load the rendered HTML content from the server, then create and show a new view using those contents.

Attributes

addPjaxParam

Boolean

Inherited from PjaxContent: pjax/js/pjax-content.js:204

Available since 3.5.0

If true, a "pjax=1" query parameter will be appended to all URLs requested via Pjax.

Browsers ignore HTTP request headers when caching content, so if the same URL is used to request a partial Pjax page and a full page, the browser will cache them under the same key and may later load the cached partial page when the user actually requests a full page (or vice versa).

To prevent this, we can add a bogus query parameter to the URL so that Pjax URLs will always be cached separately from non-Pjax URLs.

Default: true

Fires event addPjaxParamChange

Fires when the value for the configuration attribute addPjaxParam is changed. You can listen for the event using the on method if you wish to be notified before the attribute's value has changed, or using the after method if you wish to be notified after the attribute's value has changed.

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade
    An Event Facade object with the following attribute-specific properties added:
    • prevVal Any
      The value of the attribute, prior to it being set.
    • newVal Any
      The value the attribute is to be set to.
    • attrName String
      The name of the attribute being set.
    • subAttrName String
      If setting a property within the attribute's value, the name of the sub-attribute property being set.

contentSelector

String

Inherited from PjaxContent: pjax/js/pjax-content.js:226

Available since 3.5.0

CSS selector used to extract a specific portion of the content of a page loaded via Pjax.

For example, if you wanted to load the page example.html but only use the content within an element with the id "pjax-content", you'd set contentSelector to "#pjax-content".

If not set, the entire page will be used.

Default: null

Fires event contentSelectorChange

Fires when the value for the configuration attribute contentSelector is changed. You can listen for the event using the on method if you wish to be notified before the attribute's value has changed, or using the after method if you wish to be notified after the attribute's value has changed.

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade
    An Event Facade object with the following attribute-specific properties added:
    • prevVal Any
      The value of the attribute, prior to it being set.
    • newVal Any
      The value the attribute is to be set to.
    • attrName String
      The name of the attribute being set.
    • subAttrName String
      If setting a property within the attribute's value, the name of the sub-attribute property being set.

timeout

Number

Inherited from PjaxContent: pjax/js/pjax-content.js:263

Available since 3.5.0

Time in milliseconds after which an Ajax request should time out.

Default: 30000

Fires event timeoutChange

Fires when the value for the configuration attribute timeout is changed. You can listen for the event using the on method if you wish to be notified before the attribute's value has changed, or using the after method if you wish to be notified after the attribute's value has changed.

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade
    An Event Facade object with the following attribute-specific properties added:
    • prevVal Any
      The value of the attribute, prior to it being set.
    • newVal Any
      The value the attribute is to be set to.
    • attrName String
      The name of the attribute being set.
    • subAttrName String
      If setting a property within the attribute's value, the name of the sub-attribute property being set.

titleSelector

String

Inherited from PjaxContent: pjax/js/pjax-content.js:245

Available since 3.5.0

CSS selector used to extract a page title from the content of a page loaded via Pjax.

By default this is set to extract the title from the <title> element, but you could customize it to extract the title from an <h1>, or from any other element, if that's more appropriate for the content you're loading.

Default: "title"

Fires event titleSelectorChange

Fires when the value for the configuration attribute titleSelector is changed. You can listen for the event using the on method if you wish to be notified before the attribute's value has changed, or using the after method if you wish to be notified after the attribute's value has changed.

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade
    An Event Facade object with the following attribute-specific properties added:
    • prevVal Any
      The value of the attribute, prior to it being set.
    • newVal Any
      The value the attribute is to be set to.
    • attrName String
      The name of the attribute being set.
    • subAttrName String
      If setting a property within the attribute's value, the name of the sub-attribute property being set.