Firing a Turbo Stream from Stimulus

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I have this form:

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What I hoped to achieve here, is by clicking on this button, to fire a controller action
that will using turbo stream, replace this form with extra fields.

I made the request using fetch:

cep_search(event) {
event.preventDefault()
const token = document.getElementsByName(
  "csrf-token"
)[0].content;
let formData = new FormData()
formData.append("tipo_unidade", "fisica");
formData.append("cep", this.cepTarget.value);
formData.append("authenticity_token", token);
fetch(this.urlValue, {
  body: new URLSearchParams({
    'tipo_unidade': 'fisica',
    'cep': this.cepTarget.value,
    'authenticity_token': token
  }),
  method: 'POST',
  credentials: "include",
  headers: {
    "X-CSRF-Token": token,
    "Accept": 'text/vnd.turbo-stream.html, text/html, application/xhtml+xml'
  },
})

}

And it fires the controller:

Processing by UnidadesController#render_form as TURBO_STREAM

Parameters: {“tipo_unidade”=>“fisica”, “cep”=>“01548030”, “authenticity_token”=>"[FILTERED]", “empresa_id”=>“takitani”}
User Load (0.7ms) SELECT “users”.* FROM “users” WHERE “users”.“id” = $1 ORDER BY “users”.“id” ASC LIMIT $2 [[“id”, 2], [“LIMIT”, 1]]
Empresa Load (0.7ms) SELECT “empresas”.* FROM “empresas” WHERE “empresas”.“slug” = $1 LIMIT $2 [[“slug”, “takitani”], [“LIMIT”, 1]]
↳ app/controllers/unidades_controller.rb:21:in `load_empresa’
Rendered unidades/_fisica.html.erb (Duration: 7.2ms | Allocations: 6099)

But it renders nothing, the response comes empty.

If I do it by using a form, it works fine.

What am I missing?

Thanks!

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2

This doesn’t answer your question, but hopefully it will help identify/solve your problem: are you able to give a little more context on what you are trying to do and why? (besides what has been said about adding form fields upon clicking the submit button)?

3

Sure! Thank you so much for taking the time to answer.

This is a address form.

When you fill in the zip code, and click the seach button, it should post to a controller action
and, using a Turbo Stream, replace the form with the street, state and city filled in.

I got it working by changing the form action and posting it, but it feels so wrong…

Normaly I would do this using ajax, but I’m trying to find a way to make it “right” using Turbo and Stimulus.

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If you are using Rails, then why are you submitting the form via javascript? The form should probably be submitted with html - unless you have cogent reasons for doing otherwise. here are some proposed workflows - there might probably be better ways of doing this - i am myself getting familiar with these types of workflows, so perhaps take the following with a grain of salt

(A) with turbo stream to append/replace dom elements

  1. User types in the post code / zip code.

  2. This form is submitted via html

  3. A new form is created with the street/state/city filled in. This new form could replace the the old one. Build this new form with the turbo_stream.erb returned from the server.

       # zip_forms_controller
   def new
   end

  def create
       # turbo stream response replacing the form with another form with the city/address details
       # the new form could point to another controller: city_form_controller with an associated create action.
  end

(B) Simply using turbo frames

Same concept:

1& 2. as above
3. a new form is presented with all the addresses etc. filled out.

# zip_code_forms/new.html.erb
<%= turbo_frame_tag "new_address" do %>
     etc.
<% end  %>

# zip_code_controller.rb
def create
  if zip_code_found
     redirct_to new_city_form(params[:city])
  else
  end
end

# city_forms/new.html.erb
<%= turbo_frame_tag "new_address" do %>
     populate the city and state information here
<% end  %>
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5

Thanks for your response.

I’ve ended up using a stimulus controller to post the form to a different action that renders the form again.

Because the form is either posting to create or patchin to update, I’ve prefered to post to a different action than dealing with that on both actions.

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