1. Iteration III – Lots to do!
Goals
Spruce up UI
Add Ajax functionality
Implement access control
Implement user registration
Task Split
Advanced Ajax- Brad
Security & Site Layout- Jason

2. Refactoring & Security
Combined Teacher and Donor domains to User
Made all fields except Username, Password & UserType mandantory.
User extends SecUser, created from s2-quickstart script

3. Updated UI Added photos, slideshow and new layout to front page
Implemented jQuery Cycle slideshow plugin
Front page shows last 5 book requests created
Created navigation bar independent of navigation plugin

5. Ajax Functionality
BookRequest search page refreshes results w/o reloading page
Jquery slideshow on front page
CSS attribute manipulation in user registration form

6. Book Search- Ajax

8. jQuery Issues
Using <g:javascript library = “jquery” /> with multiple js files can create load order shuffle
Jquery library can load after calling functions, resulting in non-functioning javascript

11. Solution Download jQuery library into /web-apps/js
Replace <g:javascript library =”jquery” /> tag with
<script type=”text/javascript
src = “${resource(dir:'js', file:'jquery.js')}”>
</script>

13. Registration Issues User registration controller
User extends SecUser{ } erased User table, and all
User class fields merged to Sec_User
Creating new user via /user/create resulted in null IDs
Creating new user via secUser/create worked for
SecUser fields only. Filling other textfields resulted in
PropertyNotFoundExceptions
Adding tablePerHierarchy false to mapping of both domain classes resulted in distinct User and SecUser tables

14. What didn't get done Securing Access
annotations to relevant controller methods. However, direct access via URL completion still works, regardless of login status

15. Upcoming Work
Update user integration tests that broke when implementing spring-security-core plugin
Finish denying open access via URLs
Polish BookRequestUpdate to automatically refresh every ~10 seconds
Re-do integration tests that failed when implementing spring-security-core plugin
Eliminate redundant controllers/views/tests from redundant classes