Extends the basic Request Class with additional methods for interacting with HTML responses.
Request.HTML = new Class({
Extends: Request,
options: {
update: false,
append: false,
evalScripts: true,
filter: false,
headers: {
Accept: 'text/html, application/xml, text/xml, */*'
}
},
success: function(text){
var options = this.options, response = this.response;
response.html = text.stripScripts(function(script){
response.javascript = script;
});
var match = response.html.match(/<body[^>]*>([\s\S]*?)<\/body>/i);
if (match) response.html = match[1];
var temp = new Element('div').set('html', response.html);
response.tree = temp.childNodes;
response.elements = temp.getElements('*');
if (options.filter) response.tree = response.elements.filter(options.filter);
if (options.update) document.id(options.update).empty().set('html', response.html);
else if (options.append) document.id(options.append).adopt(temp.getChildren());
if (options.evalScripts) Browser.exec(response.javascript);
this.onSuccess(response.tree, response.elements, response.html, response.javascript);
}
});
Element.Properties.load = {
set: function(options){
var load = this.get('load').cancel();
load.setOptions(options);
return this;
},
get: function(){
var load = this.retrieve('load');
if (!load){
load = new Request.HTML({data: this, link: 'cancel', update: this, method: 'get'});
this.store('load', load);
}
return load;
}
};
Element.implement({
load: function(){
this.get('load').send(Array.link(arguments, {data: Type.isObject, url: Type.isString}));
return this;
}
});