[Chandler-dev] trying to understand the webgui of cosmo

Hi,
Well i am at a critical stage in my project. i am hacking the webgui of
cosmo and hence trying to add one more field in Sign up form "alternate
Email". Now the component has been added.

the .js file where i have changed are

1. Add fields in common.js adding the following code
 ****************************************
          f = { label: _('Signup.Form.AlternateMail'),
        elemName: 'alternateEmail',
        elemType: 'text'
    };
    f.validators = function (elem) {
        return cosmo.util.validate.required(elem); };
    f.value = a[f.elemName];
    list.push(f);
*****************************************

2. change The label keys in properties file

3. change in cosmo/account/create.js where i add the field while making the
user hash in
**********************************************************************
    this.formToUserHash = function(){

            alert(form.alternateEmail.value);

        var user = {
            username: form.username.value,
            firstName: form.firstName.value,
            lastName: form.lastName.value,
            email: form.email.value,
            alternateEmail: form.alternateEmail.value,
            password: form.password.value
        };

        alert(user['alternateEmail']);

        if (form.subscriptionName || form.subscriptionTicket ||
form.subscriptionUuid){
            user.subscription = {
                name: form.subscriptionName.value,
                ticket: form.subscriptionTicket.value,
                uuid: form.subscriptionUuid.value
            }
        }
        return user;
    };
************************************

as u can see i have entered a new alternate Email.(dont go upon alert. this
is for debugging purpose)

4. Have made changes in the cosmo.cmp.userhashToXml to cahnge the hash
object in the xml
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 userHashToXML: function(/*Object*/ userHash){

           alert('in userHashToXMl'+'   '+userHash.alternateEmail);

            var isRoot = userHash.username == "root";
            return '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>\r\n' +
                '<user xmlns="http://osafoundation.org/cosmo/CMP">' +
                (userHash.username && !isRoot? '<username>' +
cosmo.util.string.escapeXml(userHash.username) + '</username>' : "") +
                (userHash.password? '<password>' +
cosmo.util.string.escapeXml(userHash.password) + '</password>' : "") +
                (userHash.firstName && !isRoot? '<firstName>' +
cosmo.util.string.escapeXml(userHash.firstName) + '</firstName>' : "") +
                (userHash.lastName && !isRoot? '<lastName>' +
cosmo.util.string.escapeXml(userHash.lastName) + '</lastName>': "") +
                (userHash.email? '<email>' +
cosmo.util.string.escapeXml(userHash.email) + '</email>': "") +
                (userHash.alternateEmail? '<alternateEmail>' +
cosmo.util.string.escapeXml(userHash.alternateEmail) + '</alternateEmail>':
"") +
                (userHash.subscription?
this._subscriptionToXML(userHash.subscription) : "") +
                (userHash.administrator && !isRoot? '<' + EL_ADMINISTRATOR +
' >true</' + EL_ADMINISTRATOR + '>' : "") +
                (userHash.locked?'<locked>true</locked>' : "") +
                '</user>';
        },
**************************************

5. i have made changes in the userlist.html by adding the template for the
alternate mail as
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 <tr>
          <td><label for="loc">${l10n.Email}: </label></td>
          <td><input dojoType="dijit.form.ValidationTextBox" type="text"
                     id="${id}Email"
                     name="alternateEmail"
regExp="${validation.alternateEmail.regExp}"
                     required="${validation.alternateEmail.required}"

invalidMessage="${validation.alternateEmail.invalidMessage}"></td>
        </tr>
*********************************************

but now i have stuck somewhere. i am telling you where  i am stucking. i am
trying to access my alternate mail in
***************************
 cmpUserXMLToJSON: function (/*Element*/ cmpUserXml){



            var user = cmpUserXml;




alert('Hi');
alert('************* ');
            var obj = {};
            obj.firstName =
user.getElementsByTagName("firstName")[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
            obj.lastName =
user.getElementsByTagName("lastName")[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
            obj.username =
user.getElementsByTagName("username")[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
            obj.email =
user.getElementsByTagName("email")[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
            obj.dateCreated =
user.getElementsByTagName("created")[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
            obj.dateModified =
user.getElementsByTagName("modified")[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
            obj.url =
user.getElementsByTagName("url")[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
            obj.locked = (dojo.trim(
                user.getElementsByTagName("locked")[0].firstChild.nodeValue)
== "true");
            obj.administrator =    (dojo.trim(

user.getElementsByTagName("administrator")[0].firstChild.nodeValue) ==
"true");
            obj.unactivated =
(user.getElementsByTagName("unactivated").length > 0)?
                true : null;

            obj.homedirUrl = (user.getElementsByTagName("homedirUrl").length
> 0)?

user.getElementsByTagName("homedirUrl")[0].firstChild.nodeValue: null;

            return obj;
        },
*****************************************************

But it is not reaching there. i tried to debug it and reached at the
conclusion that when i am making the xml from the userhash, it is creating
problem (I tried to comment the code i write in userHashToXML: function(),
and all working fine).  But i have to add the  element in the xml.  It is
sure that xml is creatin. i have debug that.

i also reached at one conclusion that in the code
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 getSignupXML: function(/*Object*/ userHash,
            /*Object*/ ioArgs){
            var requestDict = this.getDefaultCMPRequest(ioArgs);
            requestDict.url = this._baseUrl + "/signup";
            requestDict.putData = this.userHashToXML(userHash);
            alert('return 1 from getSignupXML');
            return dojo.rawXhrPut(requestDict);

        },
*************************
The  variable requestDict is coming from
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   var requestDict = this.getDefaultCMPRequest(ioArgs);
************
but what is the ioArgs and where it is defined. Where all the io Args are
defined. i am not getting this. Please help me out with some reasons so that
i will be able to send the data successfullt to the CMPServlet in the
service layer.

Thanks in advance.

thank you

regards
Vaibhav Saxena


-- 
VAIBHAV SAXENA
Jr. Software Developeer

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