[Developers] multiple mjt queries

[Steve Sak]

That's close but not quite was I was looking for.  I'd like to be able
to call the function from javascript external to the div it was defined in.

Nick Shapiro wrote:
> You could put the task inside a mjt.def function, then call the function as many times as you want.
>
> Be careful to define the function before you call it.
>
> For example 
> http://dev.mqlx.com/~nick/example.html
>
>
> <div  id="top" style="display:none">
>
>     <div mjt.def="getmembers(groupId)"> <!-- begin function -->
>       <div mjt.task="query">
>         mjt.mqlread({
>           "type":"/type/usergroup",
>           "id":groupId,
>           "member":[{
>             "id":null
>           }]
>         })
>       </div>
>       <div mjt.choose="query.state" mjt.strip="1">
>         <div mjt.when="ready" mjt.strip="1"> <!-- process results -->
>           <div mjt.for="member in query.result.member">
>             $member.id
>           </div>
>        </div>
>         <div mjt.when="wait" mjt.strip="1">
>           <div class="loadingMsg">loading report...</div>
>         </div>
>         <div mjt.when="error" mjt.strip="1">
>           Error
>         </div>
>       </div><!-- finish choose=query.state -->
>     </div> <!-- finish function -->
>
>
>   <div mjt.script="" mjt.strip="1">
>      var groups  = ["/freebase/bots", "/freebase/mwstaff"];
>   </div>
>
>   <div mjt.for="agroup in groups">
>       <h1>${agroup}</h1>
>       ${getmembers(agroup)}      <!-- call function -->
>   </div>
> </div><!-- close top div-->
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Sak" <ssak at appliedminds.com>
> To: "For discussions about MQL, Freebase API and apps built on Freebase" <developers at freebase.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 6, 2007 10:58:38 AM (GMT-0800) America/Los_Angeles
> Subject: Re: [Developers] multiple mjt queries
>
>
> I believe the problem is that I'm refreshing the pane containing the
> href to the query before the query is completed which the causes brower
> to cancel the in-process request.  So, how do I rerun a compiled
> mjt.task without reloading and calling mjt.run?
>
>
> Nick Thompson wrote:
>   
>> mjt doesn't normally use xhr, so i'm puzzled by the error message.
>> are you using a custom mjt.task type?  it sounds like your xhr layer
>> (part of dojo?) might allow only one pending request at a time.
>>
>> usually i just fire off lots of queries and let the browser queue them
>> up in the order they are requested.  i've thought about having mjt keep
>> its own request queue so that you could prioritize some queries, but i
>> haven't come up with a use case that would justify the complexity.
>>
>>      nick
>>
>> Steve Sak wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Are there any suggestions/best practices for how to run a query multiple
>>> times in rapid succession with a varying parameter.  I'm seeing all the
>>> queries except for the last step on each other with a "Error: xhr
>>> cancelled dojoType=cancel message=xhr cancelled" message.  I get the
>>> same behavior both when I put the parameters in a list and use mjt.for
>>> to iterate and when I refresh the page the query if on multiple times. 
>>> Perhaps a way to vary the task id or run the query synchronously?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>     
>>>       
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