GateIn and Mootools

[joffreyc]

I'm developping portlet on GateIn and I use Mootools to implement AJAX request inside my portlet.

The problem I have is that both javascript of GateIn and Mootools are using the same variable : Browser

But they using it in a différent way, so when I load the page all works, but when I change the state of the portlet ( help to view), the portal change this variable and all the portlet are broken.

Do you have any clue about a way to fix this ?

[trong.tran]

Probably this is a conflict issue in javascript variable. Ideally the JS frameworks would be namespaced differently.

How do you import/register the Mootools JS framework to be used in your portlet ? Could you provide your portlet war ? so we can investigate to find out the fix

[trong.tran]

Thanks joffrey for the investigation,

The problem come with the file : PortalHttpRequest.js of the portal

at line 551 : Browser = eXo.core.Browser;

So it juste replace the content of the variable Browser which was initiated by the framework Mootools

So this is considered as a GateIn bug that we shoud not set eXo.core.Browser to the Browser global variale which may cause potential namespace conflict issues

I have just created a JIRA for this https://jira.jboss.org/browse/GTNPORTAL-1549