Grails Ajax table - how to implement? - ajax

Question

I've input:
<g:form role="search" class="navbar-form-custom" method="post"
controller="simple" action="addEntry">
<div class="form-group">
<input type="text" placeholder="Put your data HERE"
class="form-control" name="InputData" id="top-search">
</div>
</g:form>
And table:
<table class="table table-striped table-bordered table-hover " id="editable">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Created</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<g:render template="/shared/entry" var="entry"
collection="${entries}" />
</tbody>
</table>
Controller:
#Secured(['ROLE_USER', 'ROLE_ADMIN'])
class SimpleController {
def springSecurityService
def user
def index() {
user = springSecurityService.principal.username
def entries = Entry.findAllByCreatedBy(user)
[entries: entries]
}
def addEntry(){
def entries = Entry.findAllByCreatedBy(user)
render(entries: entries)
}
}
I just want to dynamically update the table with data from input string.
What is the best way?
Will be grateful for examples/solutions

Answer 1

You can update the table using AJAX with Grail's formRemote tag.
Input form
<g:formRemote
name="entryForm"
url="[controller: 'entry', action: 'add']"
update="entry">
<input type="text" name="name" placeholder="Your name" />
<input type="submit" value="Add" />
</g:formRemote>
HTML table
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Created</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody id="entry">
<g:render
template="/entry/entry"
var="entry"
collection="${entries}" />
</tbody>
</table>
Entry template
<tr>
<td>${entry.name}</td>
<td>${entry.dateCreated}</td>
</tr>
Controller
import org.springframework.transaction.annotation.Transactional
class EntryController {
def index() {
[entries: Entry.list(readOnly: true)]
}
#Transactional
def add(String name) {
def entry = new Entry(name: name).save()
render(template: '/entry/entry', collection: Entry.list(), var: 'entry')
}
}
How it works
When the add button is pressed the add controller method is called. The controller method creates the domain instance and renders the _entry.gsp template. But instead of refreshing the browser page, the template is rendered to an AJAX response. On the client side, the rendered template is inserted into the DOM inside of the tbody element with id entry, as defined in the formRemote tag by the update attribute.
Note that with this approach all of the entries are re-rendered, not just the new one. Rendering only the new one is a bit trickier.
Resources
Complete source code for my answer
Grails AJAX

Answer 2

Just to give you direction ( you are not showing any of your controller and js code.):
Create an action your controller ( the responsible controller) that will render the template /shared/entry by passing entries collection.
On submit of the form make ajax call to the action defined above, then replace the tbody html by the returned view fragment(template).