AJAX Look-Up

[rfischerecmc]

I've got a really simple AJAX use case, but I can't seem to get it to work.  I'm looking for any help you can offer.

Here's the case.

I've got a text field, and when it loses focus (onblur), I want to call a remote method to do a string look-up and then update a span elsewhere on the page with the result.

I've got it to the point where the value in the text box is being sent to do the string look-up, and I get a big HTML document back from the AJAX call, but the return value from the method isn't included anywhere in that big HTML document.

Any help on where to start looking for the problem?  Is there a good example of using AJAX for this kind of use somewhere out on the web?

[damianharvey.damianharvey.gmail.com]

Look at the RichFaces Demo and look at the source of the text repeater (what you're trying to do)

Cheers,

Damian.

[rfischerecmc]

The critical difference is that there is no backing bean for the look-up I'm performing, since the data isn't actually stored anywhere.  Is the backing bean route the way I have to go, or is it possible to do something like the ReasonPotAction without writing JavaScript?

[keithnaas]

Are you using an @WebRemote method?  or is this Ajax being done with Ajax4JSF/Richfaces?

[rfischerecmc]

I'm willing to do whatever works, although I've been digging at the <a4j:support> route.

[keithnaas]

Robert,

Can you post stripped down broken version of your xhtml and your backing bean with the method that is being called?