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Lift Application Development Cookbook

By : Gilberto Tadeu Garcia Jun
Book Image

Lift Application Development Cookbook

By: Gilberto Tadeu Garcia Jun

Overview of this book

Developing secure web applications is one of the most important tasks developers have to deal with. With Lift, it is easy to create solid and formidable web applications as it is the most secure web framework available today. The View-First approach and being able to handle things as purely data transformation, makes working with Lift an exciting task. "Lift Application Development Cookbook" teaches you how to build web applications using this amazing framework. The book moves gradually, starting with the basics (starting a new project, submitting a form, and so on) before covering more advanced topics such as building a REST API and integrating your application with other technologies and applications. "Lift Application Development Cookbook" takes you on a journey of creating secure web applications. Step-by-step instructions help you understand how things work and how various elements relate to each other. You'll learn different ways to process a form, build dynamic HTML pages, and create an API using REST. You'll also learn how to work with relational and NoSQL databases and how to integrate your application with other technologies as well as with third-part applications such as Gmail and Facebook. By the end of the book, you will be able to understand how Lift works and be able to build web applications using this amazing and exciting framework.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Lift Application Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Modifying data using the REST service


We now know how to build a REST API to fetch and create data, but what if our client has moved to a new office or changed their phone number?

We will need to have a way to modify our client's data and this is what we will learn in this recipe.

Getting ready

We will keep evolving the code that we have created in the last recipe. So, again, you can duplicate the last section's project or just modify it.

  1. In the index.html file, create a new column in the table to hold the edit link:

    <th>Edit</th>
  2. Create a new function called createLine, which should have the same code as the createClient's newLine variable. This code is as follows :

            var createLine = function(data) { 
               return <place the code from the newLine variable here>
            };
  3. Then add the new column, by adding the following code:

                        '   <td><a href="#" class="edit" data-id="' + data.id + '" onclick="editClient(this)">Edit</a></td&gt...