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JMecham
JMecham

Reputation: 291

Browser History for Grails?

I'm working with my team to create an enterprise level web application with Grails, but I don't see any "out of the box" solution to dealing with browser history when using grails with AJAX. Can someone point me to some documentation so that I can nail this?

Thanks a ton.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 760

Answers (2)

Jason Gritman
Jason Gritman

Reputation: 5301

Typically this is done by changing the location.hash property on the page. This corresponds to a string you can add after the current url with a #. Adding or modifying this part of the URL will keep you on the same page, but add an additional history entry.

The jQuery BBQ plugin is a very useful framework to manage the hash. It contains a number of useful methods to manage the hash property as key/value pairs, the same way the regular URL query string works.

Upvotes: 0

Dónal
Dónal

Reputation: 187499

Grails is predominantly a server-side framework. All it provides in terms of client-side functionality are some tags to make it easy to call the server via AJAX. I'm not aware of any functionality in the core framework to support using the back/forward buttons when AJAX calls are made.

You might find something in a plugin, but I doubt it. Your best bet is to look for this functionality in whichever JS library you're using (YUI, JQuery, Dojo, etc.)

Upvotes: 2

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