Is there a way to supply html to MarcoPolo? about jquery-marcopolo

[jstayton]

Hey Nick,

I'm not quite sure I understand. Are you saying you'd like to render HTML like...

<ol>
  <li>The Title of Something</li>
  <li>Something Else</li>
  <li>And a Third</li>
</ol>

...and have Marco Polo automatically search through those?

An example of what you're doing would be helpful. Thanks!

[firedev]

Well generally speaking yes. I would like something like this. You see it's really easy to render list of partials but having 2 set of templates is quickly becomes tiresome especially when you have complex objects to render.

Instead of, say:

[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "title": "Whatever",
    "body": "Text goes here"
    ...
    "nested": { }
  }, 
  {...},
  {...},
]

I would like to be able to accept an html collection like this (since Marcopolo expects JSON without a root node I think flat list would be more appropriate, plus it's more convenient to render).

<div id="object_1" class="object">
   Complex output here
</div>
<div id="object_2" class="object">
   ...
</div>

So I don't have to render each item in Javascript. Is there any clever trick to do so?

[jstayton]

I don't think there's a clever trick to get that working right now. Since Marco Polo expects the response from the url endpoint to be JSON, it'll error out with anything like XML or HTML. Support for those could probably be built in, but it's not something on the horizon.

My suggestion for now would be to use something like ActiveModel::Serializers to output the JSON, rather than templates/partials. That should be a bit easier to maintain.

[firedev]

Thanks. Thats what I do, I don't have problems with rendering models to JSON. The tricky part is rendering them back to HTML in Marcopolo.