Modify htm page generated by CBI

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Hello all,

I am generating a html page using a CBI model. This page includes these two following fields...

o_rs = d_gen:option(DummyValue, "_recv_state", translate("Receive Status:"))
o_rs.template = "myapp/recv_status"

o_ss = d_gen:option(DummyValue, "_send_state", translate("Send Status:"))
o_ss.template = "myapp/send_status"

To set the values of these two fields I have two seperate *htm files in my "view" folder
recv_status.htm
send_status.htm

In each of these pages I use

<span id="<%=self.option%>recv-status" class="cbi-value-title" style="text-align: left;"></span>

or

<span id="<%=self.option%>send-status" class="cbi-value-title" style="text-align: left;"></span>

to set the required values. Everything works fine this way but I want to do all this in a single htm file instead of having two files for each fields. How can I achieve that?

any help would be much appreciated.

2

Assign the same template file to both options and use conditionals within in:

<% if self.option == "this" then %>
  html for this
<% else %>
  html for that
<% end %>
3

Hi jow

Thanks for the reply. With your changes I now have a single working status.htm file with both options displaying their correct values. But this doesnt solve the main issue I was having.

Basically I am using XHR.poll to get send-status and recv-status from the backend. Previously I had XHR.poll in both of my separate htm files and I would see two XHR get requests going from my browser to the system.
One from recv_status.htm and another from send_status.htm.

Now I have a single status.htm file with one XHR.poll defined but I still see two requests both coming from the status.htm.

What I want to do is something like in the Network->Interfaces page where a single XHR.poll is called every 5 seconds and it gets and displays all the information from that (like Uptime,MAC-Address, RX, TX etc).

Is that possible with two different options pointing to the same template file?

4

The idea is to call the poll function only once, and let it do the work for all options. Consider something like this:

<% if not xhr_started then %>
  <script type="text/javascript">
    XHR.poll(...);
  </script>
<% xhr_started = true; end %>

In case the variable is not retained across the different template render contexts, use the option name instead:

<% if self.option == "first_option" then %>
  <script type="text/javascript">
    XHR.poll(...);
  </script>
<% end %>
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5

Just had to move my poll implementation under only one of the self.options like your second suggestion and now I get only one request going out...works great...thanks