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14 changes: 2 additions & 12 deletions src/jsonp/docs/component.json
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"examples": [

{
"name": "jsonp_github",
"name": "jsonp-github",
"displayName": "Getting Cross Domain JSON Data Using Y.jsonp()",
"description": "Get basic <a href='http://github.com'>GitHub</a> user info using a <code>Y.jsonp(url, callback)</code>.",
"modules": ["jsonp"],
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},

{
"name": "jsonp_gallery",
"name": "jsonp-gallery",
"displayName": "Reusing a JSONPRequest Instance to Poll a Remote Server",
"description": "Create a reusable JSONPRequest object to poll the YUILibrary.com Gallery web service, fetching info on a random Gallery module.",
"modules": ["jsonp", "transition"],
"useModules": ["jsonp", "transition"],

"hideTableOfContents": true
},

{
"name": "jsonp_fail",
"displayName": "Advanced Configuration of JSONP Requests",
"description": "Handle timeout or connection failures, override the 'this' object of the callback, and provide additional arguments to the callback",
"modules": ["jsonp"],
"useModules": ["jsonp-base", "node"],

"hideTableOfContents": true
}
]
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{{>jsonp-gallery-css}}

<div class="intro">
<p>This example shows how to create a reusable JSONPRequest for polling as well as how to configure success and failure callbacks. See the API docs and user guide for a full listing of available configurations.</p>

<p>For this example, we will use a JSONP service hosted on <a href="http://yuilibrary.com">YUILibrary</a> to fetch information about a random Gallery module and render some of the information on the page.</p>
</p>

<div class="example">
{{>jsonp-gallery-markup}}
{{>jsonp-gallery-js}}
</div>

<h3>The data</h3>
<p>The structure of the JavaScript object returned from YUILibrary's JSONP service will look like this:</p>

```
{
modules: [
{
url: (the url to the module),
title: (the title of the module),
summary: (short description of the module),
...,
owner: {
icon: (url to the author's thumb image),
fullname: (the author's full name),
rank: (YUI Team member?, Contributor? etc),
...
}
}
],
...
}

```

<p>We'll use these objects to populate an HTML template with data <em>{placeholder}</em>s using `Y.Lang.sub( template, object )`.</p>


<h3>Start simple</h3>
<p>To make a single call to the YUILibrary Gallery API, we can just use</p>

```
Y.jsonp("http://yuilibrary.com/gallery/api/random?callback={callback}", handleJSONP);

```

<p>But since each call to `Y.jsonp()` creates a new instance of `Y.JSONPRequest`, we may as well store the instance and reuse it.</p>

```
var gallery = new Y.JSONPRequest("http://yuilibrary.com/gallery/api/random?callback={callback}", handleJSONP);

gallery.send();

```

<h3>Add polling</h3>
<p>JSONPRequest doesn't have any built-in polling mechanism, but `Y.later()` can handle this for us.</p>

```
var url = "http://yuilibrary.com/gallery/api/random?callback={callback}";

function handleJSONP(response) {
// populate template from the response object and add to the output div
...
Y.one("#out").setContent( Y.Lang.sub(template, module) );
// After 7 seconds, call the API for a new module
Y.later(7000, this, this.send);
};

var gallery = new Y.JSONPRequest(url, handleJSONP);
gallery.send();

```

<h3>Add failure protection</h3>
<p>In case the Gallery API is busy or some other problem arises, we'll also want to handle this case and display an error. We can do this by passing a configuration object as the second parameter rather than a simple success callback.</p>

```
var gallery = new Y.JSONPRequest(url, {
on: {
success: function (response) {
// populate output div from the template and response object
...
Y.one("#out").setContent( Y.Lang.sub(template, module) );
// After 7 seconds, call the API for a new module
Y.later(7000, this, this.send);
},

failure: function () {
Y.one("#out").setContent( failureTemplate );
}
}
});

gallery.send();

```

<h3>Add flare</h3>
<p>Now we'll add a bit of flourish, by adding a visual indicator of how long until the next module is requested. We'll replace the call to `Y.later()` with a call to `node.transition()` using a shrinking border to show the remaining time. Then when the transition is complete, we call `send()` again.

```
var gallery = new Y.JSONPRequest(url, {
on: {
success: function (response) {
// populate output div from the template and response object
...
Y.one("#out").setContent( Y.Lang.sub(template, module) );
// Add some flare to the poll interval by showing a "time left"
// indicator via the header's border
Y.one("#out h4")
.setStyle("borderRightWidth", "100px")
.transition({
borderRightWidth: 0,
duration: 7
}, function () {
gallery.send();
});
},
failure: function () {
Y.one("#out").setContent( failureTemplate );
}
}
});
gallery.send();
```
<h3>Stop the poll</h3>
<p>The final step is to add the ability to start and stop the polling. We'll manage this by adding a property to the `gallery` JSONPRequest instance named `gallery.polling`. See the full code listing below for the implementation.
<h3 id="fullcode">Full Code Listing</h3>
<h4>HTML</h4>
```
{{>jsonp-gallery-markup}}
```

<h4>JavaScript</h4>
```
{{>jsonp-gallery-js}}
```
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{{>jsonp-github-css}}

<div class="intro">
<p>This example illustrates basic use of the `Y.jsonp( url, callback )` method, provided by the `jsonp` module.</p>

<p>For this example, we will use <a href="http://develop.github.com/">GitHub's webservice API</a>, fetching user information about some members of the YUI team.</p>
</div>

<div class="example">
{{>jsonp-github-markup}}
{{>jsonp-github-js}}
</div>

<h3>The data</h3>
<p>The structure of the JavaScript object returned from GitHub's JSONP API for user info will look like this:</p>

```
{
user: {
gravatar_id: "fc2cca...",
login: "username"
name: "User's Name",
...,
public_repo_count: 10,
public_gist_count: 20,
following_count: 30,
followers_count: 40
}
}
```

<p>We'll use these objects to populate HTML templates with data <em>{placeholder}</em>s using `Y.Lang.sub( template, object )`. The resulting HTML can then simply be passed to any of YUI 3's DOM creation methods, such as `node.setContent( html )` or `node.append( html )`. We'll do this in the function that will receive the JSONP response (seen below).</p>

<h3>Format the JSONP url</h3>
<p>Typical JSONP urls are formatted like</p>
<p>&quot;http://example.com/service?format=json&<em>callback=handleJSONP</em>&quot;.</p>
<p>To use YUI 3's JSONP utility, replace the name of the callback function in the url with placeholder text &quot;{callback}&quot;.</p>

```
// BEFORE
var url = "http://github.com/api/v2/json/user/show/yui?callback=handleJSONP";

//AFTER
var url = "http://github.com/api/v2/json/user/show/yui?callback={callback}";
```

<p>Then simply pass the url and the function that should handle the JSONP response object to `Y.jsonp(<em>url</em>, <em>handleJSONP</em>)`.</p>

```
function handleJSONP(response) {
Y.one("#out").setContent(Y.Lang.sub(template, response.user));
}

Y.one("#demo_btn").on("click", function (e) {
// e.g. http://github.com/api/v2/json/user/show/yui?callback={callback}
var url = githubAPI + user.get("value") + "?callback={callback}";

Y.jsonp(url, handleJSONP);
});
```

<h3 id="fullcode">Full Code Listing</h3>
<h4>HTML</h4>
```
{{>jsonp-github-markup}}
```

<h4>JavaScript</h4>
```
{{>jsonp-github-js}}
```
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<style scoped>
#out {
margin-top: 2em;
}
#out h4 {
border-right: 100px solid #ccc;
}
</style>
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<script>
YUI().use("jsonp", "transition",function (Y) {
var url = "http://yuilibrary.com/gallery/api/random?callback={callback}",
outputDiv = Y.one("#out"),
gallery;
// Using the configuration object syntax
gallery = new Y.JSONPRequest(url, {
on: {
success: function (response) {
var module = response.modules[0],
author = module.owner;
// Some users don't have a rank
if (!author.rank) {
author.rank = "user";
}
// Format the author info and store as a property of the
// module object for use by Y.Lang.sub
// ('this' refers to the JSONPRequest object by default)
module.authorHTML = Y.Lang.sub(this.authorTemplate, author);
outputDiv.setContent(Y.Lang.sub(this.moduleTemplate, module));
// Add some flare to the poll interval by showing a "time left"
// indicator via the header's border
Y.one("#out h4")
.setStyle("borderRightWidth", "100px")
.transition({
borderRightWidth: 0,
duration: 7
}, function () {
if (gallery.polling) {
gallery.send();
}
});
},
failure: function () {
gallery.polling = false;
outputDiv.setContent(this.failureTemplate);
// Wire up the Try again button
outputDiv.one("button").on("click", function () {
gallery.send();
});
}
}
});
gallery.moduleTemplate =
'<h4><a href="{url}">{title}</a></h4>' +
'<p class="author">{authorHTML}</p>' +
'<div>{summary}</div>';
gallery.authorTemplate =
'<img src="{icon}" height="30" width="30">' +
' {fullname} <span class="rank">({rank})</span>';
gallery.failureTemplate =
'<p class="error">Ack, I couldn\'t reach the Gallery web service!</p>' +
'<button>Try again</button>';
gallery.polling = false;
// Click the button to send the JSONP request
Y.one("#start").on("click", function (e) {
if (!gallery.polling) {
gallery.polling = true;
gallery.send();
}
});
Y.one("#stop").on("click", function (e) {
gallery.polling = false;
});
});
</script>
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<div id="demo">
<input type="button" id="start" value="Start polling">
<input type="button" id="stop" value="Stop polling">
<div id="out">
</div>
</div>
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<style scoped>
#out {
margin-top: 1em;
}
#out caption {
color: #f80;
font-size: 123%;
display: table-caption;
*display: block;
}
</style>
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