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'''THIS IS OUTDATED DOCUMENTATION''' See new Umlaut documentation at http://github.com/team-umlaut/umlaut/wiki
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If you want to include [[Umlaut]]-generated HTML directly on a third party page via javascript, there is a Javascript helper object to make that very easy. This helper uses the [[Umlaut partial html API]], but does everything for you. The helper will update your page at DOM locations you specify, and keep polling Umlaut for new results, continuing to re-update your page until Umlaut is finished.
=== Load JQuery ===
You can load JQuery from your installed Umlaut if you want. This is not neccesary if your app already includes JQuery. It's probably best to load it in "no conflict" mode:
<code>
</code>
=== Optionally, load Umlaut Javascript UI Behaviors ===
HTML loaded in by the HtmlUpdater may include javascript behaviors when displayed in Umlaut, such as expand/contract toggles. You can choose to load JS files providing those behaviors into your local app. If you don't, certain links will degrade to linking out to Umlaut, but everything should still work fine.
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://app01.mse.jhu.edu:3000/js_helper/loader"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
var loader = new Umlaut.Loader();
loader.load();
=== Instantiate an HtmlUpdater ===
You need to instantiate an Umlaut.HtmlUpdater, and tell it your Umlaut base url, and a context object key-encoded-value query parameter string. If you already have an OpenURL link on the page, it may be convenient to pull the context object out of that, see [[#Complete Example|example ]] below.
<code>
<code>
updater.add_section_target({ umlaut_section_id: "fulltext", selector:"#my_full_text_div" });
</code>
<code>
updater.add_section_target({ umlaut_section_id: "highlighted_links", selector: ".sidebar", position: "append" });
</code>
 
 
=== Call the updater ===
=== Section Target callbacks ===
Additonally, you can specify some javascript callback Callback functions to provided with add_section_target, if desired. These can be useful for modifying the HTML returned by Umlaut before it's placed on your page, or modifying other parts of your page upon receiving content.
<pre>
updater.add_section_target({ umlaut_section_id: "highlighted_links", selector: ".sidebar", position: "append", before_update: function(html, count) {
$(html).find(".section_heading h3").hide();
return (count > 0);
}
});
</pre>
==== after_update(html, count, target_obj) ====
Similar to before_update, but called after the html has been placed in the DOM on the page. Not sure what this is useful for, but in In after_update (unlike before_update) you can call JQuery closest() on the html to look up in the DOM if you want. Whereas that's not This could be used for instance to show a previously hidden parent element only if there are umlaut items available in before_update since the html has not yet been placed on the page. :
<code>
updater.add_section_target({umlaut_section_id: "fulltext", selector:"#my_fulltext",
after_update: function(html, count) {
if (count !=0 ) { $(html).closest("div.something").something...show(); }
}
});
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
var loader = new Umlaut.Loader();
loader.load();
/* pull openurl link out of the DOM, take umlaut base and context object
out of it */
var openurl_link = $("a.openurl_link").attr("href");
var ctx_object_kev = openurl_link.substring( openurl_link.indexOf("?") + 1);
var umlaut_base = openurl_link.substring(0, openurl_link.indexOf("/resolve")); var updater = new Umlaut.HtmlUpdater($UMLAUT_BASE umlaut_base , ctx_object_kev );
updater.add_section_target({ umlaut_section_id: "fulltext", selector:".my_full_text" , // only show ourself if we have umlaut hits, false return from // before_update stops update. before_update: function(html, count) { return (count != 0); } });
updater.add_section_target({ umlaut_section_id: "search_inside", selector:".stuff", position: "append" });
updater.add_section_target({ umlaut_section_id: "excerpts", selector:".stuff", position: "append" });
updater.add_section_target({
position: "append",
before_update: function(container_element) {
//insert some content into the umlaut-delivered html
//before it is placed on the page
container_element.find("h3").after("<h4>We love these holdings.</h4>");
}
});
updater.add_section_target({ umlaut_section_id: "related_items", selector:".stuff", position: "append" });
updater.add_section_target({
selector:".only_if_content",
after_update: function(updated_content, count) {
//show the ancestor DOM element with certain class, only
//if there are umlaut hits
if ( count != 0 ) {
updated_content.closest(".only_if_content").show();
<body>
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