Discovering Dojo for Domino: Part 2- Runing Dojo on Domino 8.5

Part one of my adventures in dojo can be found here

Next, I tried to run this on my 8.5 Beta 1 Domino server at home.

First problem: the dojo files are not installed under the /html folder but in a new folder in the file structure /js. I could not load the javascript file at all. After searching through the N&D 8.5 Beta forum I found that you can reference this folder using /domjs.

So my HTML Head Content was changed to

<script type="text/javascript" 
 src="/domjs/dojo-1.1.0/dojo/dojo.js" 
 djConfig="parseOnLoad:true, isDebug:true"></script>"

And, of course, the files shipped with Beta 1 are dojo 1.1.0. Fortunately the Dojo Quick Start Guide also links to the earlier version (not that I could spot any differences!)

Everything worked OK until I tried to run the example which retrieves text as json. I kept getting a 404 - file not found error. Rather than wasting time trying to find the typo in the file path I created a simple test agent which output the example json text, because agents and views (using ?ReadViewEntries) are the two most common ways of generating json in Domino.

The only thing I had to do was find out the appropriate mime type for the output. I initially used text/html and everything worked. Firebug helpfully displayed the following message:

Consider using mimetype:text/json-comment-filtered to avoid
potential security issues with JSON endpoints
(use djConfig.usePlainJson=true to turn off this message)

So I modified the HTML head content again, removing the debug parameter and replacing it with the suggested json parameter:

<script type="text/javascript" 
 src="/domjs/dojo-1.1.0/dojo/dojo.js" 
 djConfig="parseOnLoad:true, usePlainJson:true"></script>"

and set the content type. My agent is simply:

Sub Initialize
 
 Print "Content-type: text/html"
 Print |
    {
 foo: "bar",
 name: "SitePen",
 aFunction: function(){
  alert("internal function run");     
 },
 nested: {
     sub: "element",
     another: "subelement"
 }
    }
|
End Sub

Sweet!

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