pylon's remote calls with formencode

This is a repeat post done on Pylons groups, apologies if you've seen
this already.


What I am trying to do is a display a formencoded form in a DIV
element when I do a _remote helper call. Essentially, I want to do an
AJAX style form that is processed in a DIV element.

The problem is after the first rendering of the form, when I hit
submit, the form gets displayed in a whole new page instead of in the
DIV element... regardless of the form's validity.

template_file.myt:

<div id="Canvas"></div>
<% h.link_to_remote('New User...',
    dict(update="Canvas",
    url=h.url(controller='api', action='new', id='user'))
) %>


api.py controller:

    def new(self, id):
        # render the form
        results, errors, response = formbuild.handle(
            schema=model.forms.schema.NewContactUserFormSchema(),
            template='/abook/new_user.myt',
            form=model.forms.build.MainForm)

        #pdb.set_trace()
        # the form data was invalid, bail out and spit out errors
        if response:
            return response

        return Response('Good form')




What are some options/alternatives? This can't be the only time
someone would ever do this?

Thanks!

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