AJAX - The Complete Reference

PART II

Chapter 9: Site and Application Architecture with Ajax 437

Applying the Templates

The first library method we introduce in the template facility is AjaxTCR.template

.translateFile(templatefilename, data). You pass this method the URL of the

template file you want to apply and a JSON object that has the various name-value pairs to

be used to populate and control the template’s rendering. For example, given our rating

system, we might now define a callback function for onSuccess called showResults(),

which might look something like this:

function showResults(response)

{

var ratingData = AjaxTCR.decodeJSON(response.responseText);

var renderedResponse = AjaxTCR.template.translateFile(

FIGURE 9-5 Testing our template code