I have tried this a lot since last couple of days, but still not able to solve this.
I am using liferay 6.1 and struts 2. Basically i have two dropdowns in my liferay portlet, one for country and other for states. When selecting the country, state list needs to be in drop down list according to the country selected. I am trying to do this through AJAX. (Below code I found from google, its working in a separate Dynamic Web Project, but when i tried this in liferay portlet its throwing error.
Below is my Code:
StartPage.jsp
<script >
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#country').change(function(event) {
var country = $("select#country").val();
alert(country);
$.getJSON("<s:url action='ajaxAction' namespace='ajax' includeParams='none' />", {countryName : country}, function(jsonResponse) {
$('#ajaxResponse').text(jsonResponse.dummyMsg);
alert($('#ajaxResponse').text(jsonResponse.dummyMsg));
var select = $('#states');
select.find('option').remove();
$.each(jsonResponse.stateMap, function(key, value) {
$('<option>').val(key).text(value).appendTo(select);
});
});
});
});
</script>
<s:form name="StartPage" id="StartPage">
<s:select id="country" name="country"
list="{'Select Country','India','US'}" label="Select Country" />
<br />
<br />
<s:select id="states" name="states" list="{'Select State'}"
label="Select State" />
<br />
<br />
<div id="ajaxResponse"></div>
</s:form>
struts.xml
<package name="default" extends="json-default">
<action name="ajaxAction" class="com.action.AjaxJsonAction">
<result type="json">/WEB-INF/view/StartPage.jsp
</result>
</action>
</package>
Action Class:
public class AjaxJsonAction extends DefaultActionSupport{
private Map<String, String> stateMap = new LinkedHashMap<String, String>();
private String dummyMsg;
//Parameter for Jquery
private String countryName;
@Override
public String execute() {
System.out.println("i am executed...");
System.out.println("CountryName: " + countryName);
if (countryName.equals("India")) {
stateMap.put("1", "Kerala");
stateMap.put("2", "Tamil Nadu");
stateMap.put("3", "Jammu Kashmir");
stateMap.put("4", "Assam");
} else if (countryName.equals("US")) {
stateMap.put("1", "Georgia");
stateMap.put("2", "Utah");
stateMap.put("3", "Texas");
stateMap.put("4", "New Jersey");
} else if (countryName.equals("Select Country")) {
stateMap.put("1", "Select State");
}
dummyMsg = "Ajax action Triggered";
System.out.println("exiting.....");
return "success";
}
public Map<String, String> getStateMap() {
return stateMap;
}
public String getDummyMsg() {
return dummyMsg;
}
public String getCountryName() {
return countryName;
}
public void setStateMap(Map<String, String> stateMap) {
this.stateMap = stateMap;
}
public void setDummyMsg(String dummyMsg) {
this.dummyMsg = dummyMsg;
}
public void setCountryName(String countryName) {
this.countryName = countryName;
}
}
Errro Log:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: application/json;charset=UTF-8 is not a supported mime type
at com.liferay.portlet.MimeResponseImpl.setContentType(MimeResponseImpl.java:159)
at org.apache.struts2.portlet.servlet.PortletServletResponse.setContentType(PortletServletResponse.java:219)
at org.apache.struts2.json.JSONUtil.writeJSONToResponse(JSONUtil.java:225)
at org.apache.struts2.json.JSONResult.writeToResponse(JSONResult.java:211)
at org.apache.struts2.json.JSONResult.execute(JSONResult.java:172)
at com.opensymphony.xwork2.DefaultActionInvocation.executeResult(DefaultActionInvocation.java:373)