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Valentyn Shybanov
Valentyn Shybanov

Reputation: 19391

Autosaving on blur + "Undo" button

I am writing directive, that will act like this:

  1. allow editing of some text (using content editable)
  2. on loosing focus it should save its value to model (lately watched and saved to DB)
  3. there should be button "Undo" which revert changes.

My implementation is: http://plnkr.co/edit/DsWEYQV4j51i4GO6KjSe?p=preview

The only problem I have is when I press "undo" button, DIV lose focus (so 'focusout' event is fired) and value is saved in model, so "undo" button can't revert its value.

( I click "undo" -> focusout event (autosave) -> click event (??? can't revert) )

Possible workarounds I see:

  1. set timeout on blur and cancel it if 'undo' button was pressed. But it is ugly as user can enter value and navigate to other part of app, so timeouted saving won't run any $watch listeners.
  2. save value on focusin and restore it when 'undo' button is saved. This cause another problem: $watch listeners would run with changed value and then run again with previous value (so there would be 2 writes to DB instead of one)

Do anybody have solution for such behaviour (autosave on blur + undobutton)?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 1093

Answers (1)

Ketan
Ketan

Reputation: 5891

How about using underscore.js debounce function or similar to cause a delay on autosave, where it will check for a undo flag and cancel? Not sure what the $watch listeners are doing. Of course it will still not work if the user completely goes out of the app or refreshes the page etc.

Upvotes: 1

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