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Mar 20th, 2008

Re: Parent/Child Windows References

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Hi,

I have the same problem, and I can't achieve to serialize my popup reference.

I tried with JSON and a lot of different libraries :

var popupVar = window.open('url', 'name');
var serializedString = JSON.encode(popupVar);
var serializedString = popupVar.toJSONString();
...

Every time I have errors. I could catch it with IE, and it says : [Object error]. Great :p
In Firefox it just crashs it...

I did'nt find any real example on serializing JS "native" objects, only JS "created" objects (like var Person = { this.id; this.name; })

Does someone achieve it ? Know how to serialize this popupVar ?

Thanks a lot

Hi,
I have the exact same java script issue where even if my parent window reloads, it should still be able to hold the child window references. Did you manage to get a solution for that. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in Advance.

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Mar 22nd, 2008

Re: Parent/Child Windows References

> even if my parent window reloads, it should still be able to hold the child window
> references.

AFAIK, you simply can't. To put it in simple terms, the Javascript variables disappear after a page reload. After all Javascript is a client side technology.

A work around would be to store all the information you need to maintain inside a cookie i.e. whether the child window was open or not and if yes then what were it's contents; at the same time being aware of the 4KB limit imposed on the cookie size.

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Mar 22nd, 2008

Re: Parent/Child Windows References

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> even if my parent window reloads, it should still be able to hold the child window
> references.

AFAIK, you simply can't. To put it in simple terms, the Javascript variables disappear after a page reload. After all Javascript is a client side technology.

A work around would be to store all the information you need to maintain inside a cookie i.e. whether the child window was open or not and if yes then what were it's contents; at the same time being aware of the 4KB limit imposed on the cookie size.

You can't store a popup window reference in a cookie as it is directly dependent on the current parent window/document which is a javascript host object.
However, if you could persist the current window to the next reload in the browser, you could also persist reference to open windows, and other objects (dependents).

Unfortunately I cannot release the code for this right now, as I would like to, as we have a patent pending. I will try and get this code out in ASAP as I know this is needed in many areas of web development, especially the web2.0.

As soon as we get the patent sorted you will be able to persist references to host objects in javascript between the loading of new windows.

At the moment I am interested in any other methods that may have been discovered to do this, though I have not found any so far.

-- update:

I'll add some code to demonstrate persistence of javascript native and host objects after I get it tested in a majority of browsers and OS's.

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Mar 22nd, 2008

Re: Parent/Child Windows References

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You can't store a popup window reference in a cookie as it is directly dependent on the current parent window/document which is a javascript host object.
However, if you could persist the current window to the next reload in the browser, you could also persist reference to open windows, and other objects (dependents).

Read my post carefully; I talk of persisting the child window 'information' and not the child window itself which seems to make little sense.

You could store information like the child windows' attributes like its height, width, position etc. in a cookie. On a document load, your javascript function would then check the contents of the cookies and then re-create a child window based on the flag 'recreateNeeded' which would be either true or false or 0 or 1 (the way you want it to be). Of course this means persisting the child window information at regular intervals and writing a custom mini parser which would parse the contents of the cookie at load time but yes, it's very much possible with a bit of effort .

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Re: Parent/Child Windows References

The simplest way I found is to use the fact that when your child window is named and you try to open a new pop up with the same name it automatically refers to already opened window. Here's the way to do it.

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window.open('test.html','WindowName','',''....);// open the child window for first time
WindowRef = window.open('','WindowName','',''....);// it assigns the reference for the same child window to the variable
Note that url parameter is left blank and Pop up window name is the same. It refers to the same child window and assigns the reference object to variable "WindowRef".
window.open('test.html','WindowName','',''....);// open the child window for first time
WindowRef = window.open('','WindowName','',''....);// it assigns the reference for the same child window to the variable
Note that url parameter is left blank and Pop up window name is the same. It refers to the same child window and assigns the reference object to variable "WindowRef".

The best part of the above code is that you can take the reference of the window regardless of the parent page refreshing.'

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Now when you need to refer the child window simply do it by
WindowRef.close();  // close the child window
Now when you need to refer the child window simply do it by
WindowRef.close();  // close the child window

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