mapeck65 at gmail
Mar 2, 2010, 2:13 PM
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Re: Greasemonkey with JQuery, JSON, and Catalyst
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Thanks, Jay. I thought I was on the right track...just wanted a little
sanity check before coding. :)
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 4:44 PM, J. Shirley <jshirley [at] gmail> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Michael Peck <mapeck65 [at] gmail> wrote:
> > I'm writing a Greasemonkey script that incorporates JQuery, which I want
> to
> > POST JSON data to a catalyst application. The Catalyst application does
> not
> > exist within the same domain as the page the greasemonkey script is
> running
> > from, so I am assuming I will need to use Greasemonkey's
> GM_xmlhttpRequest
> > method to post the data. I am new to all of this, so I'm just trying to
> > make sure my thought process is correct.
> >
> > On the client side, I think I should use JSON.stringify on the Javascript
> > object before posting it using GM_xmlhttpRequest to the Catalyst app.
> >
> > On the Catalyst side, I'm planning to use Catalyst::Controller::REST,
> which
> > should deserialize the JSON data with
> Catalyst::Action::Deserialize::JSON,
> > if I understand it correctly.
> >
> > If anyone has done anything similar, I could use some pointers, as I'm
> new
> > to Catalyst and haven't worked with JSON before.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mike.
> >
>
> Assuming you can do the cross-domain xmlhttprequests with greasemonkey
> (I don't use Greasemonkey) then Catalyst::Controller::REST is what you
> are after.
>
> Just make sure that you send the "Content-type: application/json"
> header, and everything will work. I do this a lot with JSON, using
> yui3 though.
>
> -Jay
>
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