Calling a groovy script or Java from Javascript

Question

Hey!

I have a cool bit of dojo running where I click a button - and it brings a success message on the screen via javascript. Is it possible to issue a call to a server side Groovy script foo.groovy from within this Javascript - because not only do I want to show the cool success message - but I need to do some work in the background at that point also.

Thanks

Andy

Answer 1

The answer was to use dojo's AJAX call system.

Answer 2

Here are some relevant links from the Dojo documentation:

• Intro to AJAX and Dojo
• Dojo.xhrGet() reference: sends a GET request to the server-side resource (which can be a Groovy script or anything else that resides on the server). The live examples on this page are currently broken, but I'm told this is being resolved.
• Dojo.xhrPost() reference: sends a POST request. There are variants for PUT and DELETE too.