How does PostLongForm work for questions and comments?

[taytayp]

This is less an issue more a feature I am trying to implement, so a discussion topic feels more appropriate.

I am running my own instance of the biostars forum for use within our school, and we are interested in having an "anonymous" post feature. A user can select a checkbox on submission/edit and their account will be hidden from everyone besides moderators when posting.

I have managed to implement it successfully within answers and original posts, adding a field to PostLongForm and PostShortForm inside biostar/forum/forms.py and adding a column to the database to record this boolean result.

What I can't seem to figure out is how comments on posts and answers work, since I want this to be anonymous too. They seem to also use the PostLongForm class but I can't seem to figure out how they differ from full posts/questions and it is driving me slowly insane.

I have made a number of changes so forgive the lack of examples here, but if you want to get into the weeds with me please check out my recent commits here.

Any guidance would be appreciated!

[Natay]

Hey @taytayp took a peek your commits and you have all the right pieces -- here are some pointers to help clarify.

Main difference is comments use ajax to handle data asynchronously and in place. This is why clicking 'Add Comment' only loads that portion of the page, while original answers/questions use a regular request-response cycle that refreshes the whole thing.

pointers :

• They seem to also use the PostLongForm class but I can't seem to figure out how they differ from full posts/questions and it is driving me slowly insane.

  Small correction, comments use PostShortForm for creating in biostar.forum.ajax.ajax_comment_create and for editing in biostar.forum.ajax.ajax_edit .

• The field you want to set ( post.anon ) needs to be passed to the ajax functions that call biostar.forum.ajax.ajax_comment_create ( create_comment) and biostar.forum.ajax.ajax_edit ( edit_comment ) . I would look at other fields to see how they are set and mirror them ( essentially need to parse the form fields here and pass it to the data being sent here). Needless to say, you will need to include post.anon in the inplace form

Quick guide on using ajax with django

[taytayp]

Thanks for the tips @Natay ! I think I have it mostly working minus one exception. I am unable to get the checkbox's value within the inplace.js script. I try to find it with $('#id-anon').is(':checked'); but it looks to be blank (even if I console.log just the `$('#id-anon') object). Any suggestions here? My JS knowledge is definitely on the lower side compared to my python haha.

Pushed changes to the GitLab repo above if you want to see my changes. Thanks again!