[jQuery] Sortable Serialization for nested lists
No response over on the UI list. Perhaps someone here knows...
Hi Folks,
I think there's a problem with the serialization of nested lists inside
Sortables. I have an altered version of the demo here:
http://scott.sauyet.com/issues/2008-04-08a/
The Serialize button logs to the console if you have Firebug, otherwise
it just does an alert.
The original layout looks like this:
* Drag us
* around
* and change
o Lorem
o Ipsum
* our
* positions
o Something else
o Foo bar
and it serializes as
item[]=0&item[]=1&item[]=2&item-2[]=0&item-2[]=1&item[]=3&item[]=4&item-4[]=0&item-4[]=1
If you move "our" after "Ipsum" in the nested list, you get
* Drag us
* around
* and change
o Lorem
o Ipsum
o our
* positions
o Something else
o Foo bar
which serializes as
item[]=0&item[]=1&item[]=2&item-2[]=0&item-2[]=1&item[]=3&item[]=4&item-4[]=0&item-4[]=1
exactly the same as above. Clearly these two different structures
should serialize differently.
I can see that there is an extension point for the attribute, the key
value, and the regex used in serialization, but I don't think there's a
straightforward way to replace the actual serialization function without
hacking into the source code.
Can anyone suggest a way that I could get different behavior here?
Thanks,
-- Scott