Hello
I'm testing the XMLHttpRequest object in Firefox and IE. The code
below works well in IE and Firefox. It shows "1" when the string is a
number and "0" when not. The page aspxTest.aspx only write "0" or "1"
with a "response.write " method.
The problem that I have is when I try this example with Synchronous
mode. If I change the function sendNum with:
xmlhttp.open("G ET",url,false );
In IE works well (show "0" or "1") but in Firefox don't show anything.
I have put an alert in "end" function before the condition of
xmlhttp.readySt ate but anything is writed. What's is wrong?
Thanks a lot
<html>
<head>
<script>
var xmlhttp;
function sendNum ()
{
try
{
xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject(" Microsoft.XMLHT TP")
}
catch (e)
{
try
{
xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject(" Msxml2.XMLHTTP" )
}
catch (E)
{
xmlhttp=false
}
}
if (!xmlhttp && typeof XMLHttpRequest! ='undefined')
{
try
{
xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest( );
}
catch (e)
{
xmlhttp=false
}
}
xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest( );
var url = "http://localhost/Test/aspxTest.aspx?n um=" +
document.forms['f'].elements['num'].value;
xmlhttp.open("G ET",url,true) ;
xmlhttp.onready statechange = end;
xmlhttp.setRequ estHeader('Acce pt','message/x-jl-formresult')
xmlhttp.send(nu ll);
}
function end ()
{
//alert("end function");
if (xmlhttp.readyS tate == 4)
{
alert(xmlhttp.r esponseText);
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form id="f">
Number: <input type="text" width="100px" id="num">
<input type="button" value="is a number" onclick="sendNu m()">
</form>
</body>
</html>
9  17996 
David wrote:
I'm testing the XMLHttpRequest object in Firefox and IE. The code
below works well in IE and Firefox. It shows "1" when the string is a
number and "0" when not. The page aspxTest.aspx only write "0" or "1"
with a "response.write " method.
The problem that I have is when I try this example with Synchronous
mode. If I change the function sendNum with:
xmlhttp.open("G ET",url,false );
You shouldn't use the onreadystatecha nge event handler if you are using
a synchronous request, instead then you should do e.g.
xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest( );
var url = "http://localhost/Test/aspxTest.aspx?n um=" +
document.forms['f'].elements['num'].value;
xmlhttp.open("G ET",url,true) ;
xmlhttp.setRequ estHeader('Acce pt','message/x-jl-formresult')
xmlhttp.send(nu ll);
if (xmlhttp.status == 200) {
// use xmlhttp.respons eText or responseXML here
}
else {
// handle different response status here
}
that is simply place your code consuming the response after send(null),
as that method blocks.
But usually on the web you shouldn't use synchronous mode at all as it
blocks the browser and the user interface. For testing it might be fine
to start with synchronous requests but as you already know about
asynchronous requests and onreadystatecha nge simply use that.
--
Martin Honnen http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/
Martin Honnen wrote: But usually on the web you shouldn't use synchronous mode at all as it
blocks the browser and the user interface. For testing it might be fine
to start with synchronous requests but as you already know about
asynchronous requests and onreadystatecha nge simply use that.
I did not know that XMLHttpRequest had a synchronous mode. Very interesting.
Indeed I think, synchronous mode has some advantages because JS's event
driven approach does not lend itself well to some problems. Synchronous
is fine, as long as you can impose a timeout. Can you do this with
XMLHttpRequest?
Cheers
Daniel Kabs
Germany
Daniel Kabs wrote: Indeed I think, synchronous mode has some advantages because JS's event
driven approach does not lend itself well to some problems. Synchronous
is fine, as long as you can impose a timeout. Can you do this with
XMLHttpRequest?
As script in current browsers like Mozilla runs in the user interface
thread a synchronous request means that the user interface is blocked
while the request is being performed and while the response is being
received.
XMLHttpRequest in Mozilla and in Opera does not have a method to set
timeouts, neither has Msxml2.XMLHTTP used client side in IE.
The Msxml2.ServerXM LHTTP object to be used on the server (e.g. in ASP
pages) has a method to set timeouts:
<http://msdn.microsoft. com/library/default.asp?url =/library/en-us/xmlsdk/html/xmobjXMLDOMServ erXMLHTTP.asp>
<http://msdn.microsoft. com/library/default.asp?url =/library/en-us/xmlsdk/html/xmmthsetTimeout sMethod.asp>
--
Martin Honnen http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/
Hello Martin,
this thread is close to expire on my news server. How can you answer a
posting to a more than two months old thread in just a couple of
minutes? :-)
Martin Honnen wrote: As script in current browsers like Mozilla runs in the user interface
thread a synchronous request means that the user interface is blocked
while the request is being performed and while the response is being
received.
XMLHttpRequest in Mozilla and in Opera does not have a method to set
timeouts, neither has Msxml2.XMLHTTP used client side in IE.
Thanks for pointing that out. So one has to *rely* on the fact, that the
server's response is swift. Not nice, but the alternative is an
asynchronous request, which is also not without ramifications.
Cheers
Daniel Kabs
Germany
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:02:31 +0200, Daniel Kabs <da*********@gm x.de>
wrote: Hello Martin,
this thread is close to expire on my news server. How can you answer a
posting to a more than two months old thread in just a couple of
minutes? :-)
Martin Honnen wrote: As script in current browsers like Mozilla runs in the user interface
thread a synchronous request means that the user interface is blocked
while the request is being performed and while the response is being
received.
XMLHttpRequest in Mozilla and in Opera does not have a method to set
timeouts, neither has Msxml2.XMLHTTP used client side in IE.
Thanks for pointing that out. So one has to *rely* on the fact, that the
server's response is swift. Not nice, but the alternative is an
asynchronous request, which is also not without ramifications.
No, always use async, sync is very bad on anything with a UI.
Jim.
Hello Jim,
I came across your pages while searching for help on some javascript
problems and I just wanted to say that I like your jibbering.com website.
Jim Ley wrote: Thanks for pointing that out. So one has to *rely* on the fact, that the
server's response is swift. Not nice, but the alternative is an
asynchronou s request, which is also not without ramifications.
No, always use async, sync is very bad on anything with a UI.
I've read that on your page, too. But asynchronous programming can be
awkward. Imagine you have several object, one object calls a method of
another object and so on. The last method invoked in this "cascade" is
supposed to load an image and return the image object. Now this can not
be accomplished in JS because the image is going to be loaded in an
async way and the method returns immediately. All the functions have to
return, the stack unwinds and the status is lost, if it is not saved
in e.g. callbacks using closures. And every method in this "cascade" has
to support callbacks, just because the last function is async. See the
sequence diagram in [2].
A solution could be to wrap the async functions with a "Synchronou s
Wrapper Facade in Javascript" (if that is possible in JS, but I doubt
it). Please have a look at my corresponding question in [2].
Cheers
Daniel Kabs
Germany
--
References:
1 <42************ ***********@new sread4.arcor-online.net>
2 <42************ ***********@new sread4.arcor-online.net>
On Mon, 02 May 2005 12:44:36 +0200, Daniel Kabs <da*********@gm x.de>
wrote: No, always use async, sync is very bad on anything with a UI.
I've read that on your page, too. But asynchronous programming can be
awkward.
No more awkward than all the rest of javascript/html which relies on
it, it's all event based, I can't see how if you can cope with that
you'll have any more of a problem with this?
It's not awkward, it's just a different way of programming, and as you
have to use it for the rest, I fail to see the problem. The "load an
object, which loads an object, which loads an object which returns an
image" is simply not a pattern you should be using in webpages, I
don't think it's useful to try and create hacks and workarounds to fit
that pattern, just pick a more appropriate one.
Sync simply violates any user interface rules that the interface
cannot lock up. The big problem is that people test locally, or with
fast, reliable connections to their server, whereas the users will be
a long way away on unreliable connections, and they'll get very
different behavour.
Then there's the number of complete lock-up bugs when there are
multiple sync requests going on, it's simply not appropriate.
Jim
Hello!
Jim Ley wrote: It's not awkward, it's just a different way of programming, and as you
have to use it for the rest, I fail to see the problem. The "load an
object, which loads an object, which loads an object which returns an
image" is simply not a pattern you should be using in webpages, I
don't think it's useful to try and create hacks and workarounds to fit
that pattern, just pick a more appropriate one.
I'm sorry if you received the impression that I would implement "load"
requests by recursive object calls. That's not what I meant when I wrote
"one object calls another". And of course I do not want the UA/UI to
freeze. Maybe I was too unprecise.
The problem is not asynchronous programming per se. I've done that
before. The problem is that Javascript provides no means of waiting for
results, i.e. it's a completely async environment.
Thus (as I wrote before) if you have a method calling another method
calling another method doing something async, even the first
method/function has to provide for this async behaviour and pass a
closure as parameter to continue after the async call has finished and
triggers the event handler. I find this "awkward" because this prevents
to "abstract away" deeper levels of functionality as even the highest
abstraction level has to know about the async type of the underlying
levels. Or am I completely mistaken?
Cheers
Daniel
Hello Richard,
thanks for sharing your ideas and the detailed description how a
completely event-driven system works.
Richard Cornford wrote: Awkwardness is going to be largely a matter of perception. Procedural
code doesn't lend itself to asynchronous operation but OO code shouldn't
be such a problem. In OO the 'state' should be a quality of the objects
not the stack.
Yes, it's the feeling that makes one prefer a certain design. I would
not rule out procedural code for async operations. E.g. I imaging that
implementing a network protocol using a statemachine is an appropriate
approach. In OO code you would break up the case/switch statements and
"spread them around", delegate it to objects and their methods. Now the
objects keep their own state (and implement a statemachine). Is this
advantageous, I don't know.
Maybe it's just because I have a background in procedural programming.
So designing a completely event-driven system, where objects interact
sending async messages seems counter-intuitive because it lacks a main
flow of control.
I found the following example helpful:
In procedural programming you often have the control flow in a main
routine that calls other components only to do lower-level tasks. The
main routine can be long and complex but it gives the whole thing a
logical structure.
In an event-driven program you don't have that control flow in the main
routine. The main routine sends of messages and mainly consists of event
handlers. Not the main routine but the objects are now "in charge" and
not only sequentially, but also concurrently as messages and events may
happen any time. So the logical structure of the program is scattered
around and interactions among objects may be hard to understand.
Additionally, the use of ordinary linguistic constructs like loops,
stack allocated variables, ... is limited as these disappear accross
callbacks/messages.
Well, maybe one just has to get used to it :-) I'd like to see a real
good example of an event-driven system with object interaction through
messages implemented using Javascript. See the sequence diagram in [2].
I see no sequence diagram.
Because there is none :-) I referred to the wrong footnote. See here for
the sequence diagramm instead:
<42************ ***********@new sread4.arcor-online.net> http://groups.google.de/group/de.com...dba787abae68d4
Cheers
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