Sorry guys, maybe this has been asked before. But I googled around for several days and still cannot solve the problem. I am developing a chatting system using Google App Engine with Python. I would like the user to enter her/his message and click "Submit" button. That action will trigger an Ajax post function "addMsg()" to POST the message to class Chat (URL: "/chat"), which will add the message to datastore. There is another Ajax function "updateMsg()" which will update the message list periodically.
The code works fine for message updating, however, I am not able to post the message correctly. Can anybody help me? Thanks. Here are my codes:
<p>
<form method="" action="">
<input type="text" name="message" size="60" /><br />
<input type="button" value="Submit" onclick="addMsg('message')" />
</form>
</p>
<div id="chatcontent"> </div>
<script>
function addMsg(message) {
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "/chat",
data: {'message': message},
cache: false
});
}
</script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
function updateMsg() {
$.ajax({
url: "/message",
cache: false,
success: function(returndata){
$("#chatcontent").html(returndata);
}
});
setTimeout(updateMsg, 4000);
}
updateMsg();
});
</script>
{% for chat in chatlist %}
<p>
{{ chat.text }} ({{ chat.user.account }}) {{chat.created|date:"D d M Y" }}
</p>
{% endfor %}
# Called by URL "/chat"
class Chat(webapp2.RequestHandler):
def post(self):
message = self.request.get('message')
newchat = ChatMessage(user=self.session['userkey'], text=message, created=datetime.datetime.now())
newchat.put()
# Called by URL "/message"
class Message(webapp2.RequestHandler):
def get(self):
que = db.Query(ChatMessage).order('-created')
chatlist = que.fetch(limit=100)
render(self, 'message.html', {'chatlist': chatlist})
# Note: render() is a function to be imported, which is just a normal template rendering function. It works fine and is omitted here.
Chat.html
<p>
<input type="text" name="message" size="60" /><br />
<input type="button" value="Submit" onclick="addMsg()" />
</p>
<div id="chatcontent"> </div>
<script>
function addMsg() {
var message = $('input[name=message]').val();
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "/chat",
data: {'message': message},
cache: false
});
}
</script>