Html data attribute in Coldfusion form submission - html

Question

I understand how to pull out the data attribute in JQuery from an HTML form, but can it be done from within a .cfc controller to which a form is passed?
Page.cfm
<cfform action="controller.cfc" method="getData">
<cfinput name="uploadMyData" type="submit" data-primaryID="123">
</cfform>
Controller.cfc
function getData(rc){
writeDump(rc.uploadMyData.?????(primaryId)????);
}
Not sure if the data attribute is stored in any way in the struct.
I tried a getMetaData on the rc.uploadMyData but just got a list of java functions.
Update
Adrian J. Moreno
Data attributes are just markup that impact the internal data object of the element. They are not part of a form request. You wouldn't submit a form to a CFC file either. Using Ajax, you can read the value from the data attribute and pass it to the server as part of the request's data packet.
So in Page.cfm
<script type="text/javascript">
var otherData = $("#myForm").serialize();
function sendForm(){
var primaryID = $("#submitData").data("primaryID");
jQuery.post("urlpath/controller/",'{"id":'+''+primaryID+'}', function(dataReturn, status){
//I want to get my form and submit the other data as well to the controller
}
}
</script>
<form id="myForm" action="sendForm()">
<input name="uploadMyData" id="submitData" type="submit" data-primaryID="123">
<input name="importantThing" value="#importantVariable#" type="text">
</form>
pass it to the server as part of the request's data packet.
how would I pass them together?
I want this form submission to redirect to another page so I don't see how I couldn't use the controller? The form data should go the newPage.cfc to process it and get it ready for output on newPage.cfm. I'm using framework one but that doesn't change much.
Thanks for the help, what do you think?
Update 2
Ok, now I ask myself why I would want to submit a form with both ajax and coldfusion form submission together? I realize that's not what should be done. I can either
Submit the form via JQuery/Ajax with no page reload, and include the data attribute in the post url and include the serialized form data
Page.cfm
<script type="text/javascript">
var otherData = $("#myForm").serialize();
function sendForm(){
var primaryID = $("#submitData").data("primaryID");
jQuery.post("controller/method/?primaryId="+primaryID+"",otherData, function(dataReturn, status){
//do stuff with dataReturn or do a javascript redirect
}
}
</script>
Controller.cfc
function method(requestContext){
//do stuff with that otherData, all stored in request context. includes the primaryID value i appended to the url
//send it back to the Page.cfm
fw.renderData("rawjson",jsonString,200,"");
}
and if that made it back ok, I could run a function back in my original view with that information. Like display it on the page.
Submit the form traditionally which would result in a page reload. Include a hidden input type with the value that I want to pass.
Page.cfm
<cfform action="controller.method" method="getData">
<cfinput name="uploadMyData" type="submit" value="Submit Form Button">
<cfinput name="primaryID" type="hidden" value="123">
</cfform>
Controller.cfc
function method(requestContext){
//do stuff with requestContext.primaryID
//go to the view method.cfm or do a fw.redirect("new page or back to the page i came from");
}
Why would we want to submit the form twice? just do one or the other.

Answer 1

Matt, I think you're confused about a number of things that are quite basic to HTML, JavaScript and jQuery and have nothing to do with ColdFusion.
Let's start with an HTML Form.
<form id="{{unique_dom_value}}" action="{{uri}}" method="{{http_verb}}">
unique_dom_value: Some string unique to the document. Allows you to reference the entire form object using JavaScript.
uri: The URI to which you submit the form for processing.
http_verb: Defaults to GET, but you should most often use POST.
The URI you're trying to post to in just controller.cfc, but that won't do anything but redirect you to the ColdFusion CFC inspector.
In the context of most MVC frameworks, index.cfm?event=handler.action uses the underlying framework to call a function named action within a CFC named handler. Without a framework, you have to do that manually. So if you have a CFC named controller.cfc and want to send your form data to a function named myFunction, you need to say action="controller.cfc?method=myFunction.
But that's not right either. When you submit a form, the browser expects to load the URI that's found in the action attribute. But your CFC function doesn't respond with HTML, it responds with something else. Maybe a query object, maybe JSON. This is why you would use jQuery.Ajax() to send the form data (including the data attribute values) to the CFC's function, which should return data in JSON. Once you get a response, you can continue processing on the same page or redirect to another page.
However, since you're using Framework One, I would look into the documentation on using renderData() within one of your handler functions.