Lift Cookbook

Preface;
Contributors;
Source;
Updates;
Software Versions;
Conventions Used in This Book;
Using Code Examples;
Safari® Books Online;
How to Contact Us;
Acknowledgments;
Chapter 1: Installing and Running Lift;
1.1 Downloading and Running Lift;
1.2 Creating a Lift Project from Scratch Using SBT;
1.3 Developing Using a Text Editor;
1.4 Incorporating JRebel;
1.5 Developing Using Eclipse;
1.6 Developing Using IntelliJ IDEA;
1.7 Viewing the lift_proto H2 Database;
1.8 Using the Latest Lift Build;
1.9 Using a New Version of Scala;
Chapter 2: HTML;
2.1 Testing and Debugging CSS Selectors;
2.2 Sequencing CSS Selector Operations;
2.3 Setting Meta Tag Contents;
2.4 Setting the Page Title;
2.5 HTML Conditional Comments;
2.6 Returning Snippet Markup Unchanged;
2.7 Snippet Not Found When Using HTML5;
2.8 Avoiding CSS and JavaScript Caching;
2.9 Adding to the Head of a Page;
2.10 Custom 404 Page;
2.11 Other Custom Status Pages;
2.12 Links in Notices;
2.13 Link to Download Data;
2.14 Test on a Req;
2.15 Rendering Textile Markup;
Chapter 3: Forms Processing in Lift;
3.1 Plain Old Form Processing;
3.2 Ajax Form Processing;
3.3 Ajax JSON Form Processing;
3.4 Use a Date Picker for Input;
3.5 Making Suggestions with Autocomplete;
3.6 Offering Choices with Radio Buttons;
3.7 Conditionally Disable a Checkbox;
3.8 Use a Select Box with Multiple Options;
3.9 File Upload;
Chapter 4: REST;
4.1 DRY URLs;
4.2 Missing File Suffix;
4.3 Missing .com from Email Addresses;
4.4 Failing to Match on a File Suffix;
4.5 Accept Binary Data in a REST Service;
4.6 Returning JSON;
4.7 Google Sitemap;
4.8 Calling REST Service from a Native iOS Application;
Chapter 5: JavaScript, Ajax, and Comet;
5.1 Trigger Server-Side Code from a Button;
5.2 Call Server When Select Option Changes;
5.3 Creating Client-Side Actions in Your Scala Code;
5.4 Focus on a Field on Page Load;
5.5 Add a CSS Class to an Ajax Form;
5.6 Running a Template via JavaScript;
5.7 Move JavaScript to End of Page;
5.8 Run JavaScript on Comet Session Loss;
5.9 Ajax File Upload;
5.10 Format a Wired Cell;
Chapter 6: Request Pipeline;
6.1 Debugging a Request;
6.2 Running Code When Sessions Are Created (or Destroyed);
6.3 Run Code When Lift Shuts Down;
6.4 Running Stateless;
6.5 Catch Any Exception;
6.6 Streaming Content;
6.7 Serving a File with Access Control;
6.8 Access Restriction by HTTP Header;
6.9 Accessing HttpServletRequest;
6.10 Force HTTPS Requests;
Chapter 7: Relational Database Persistence with Record and Squeryl;
7.1 Configuring Squeryl and Record;
7.2 Using a JNDI DataSource;
7.3 One-to-Many Relationship;
7.4 Many-to-Many Relationship;
7.5 Adding Validation to a Field;
7.6 Custom Validation Logic;
7.7 Modify a Field Value Before It Is Set;
7.8 Testing with Specs;
7.9 Store a Random Value in a Column;
7.10 Automatic Created and Updated Timestamps;
7.11 Logging SQL;
7.12 Model a Column with MySQL MEDIUMTEXT;
7.13 MySQL Character Set Encoding;
Chapter 8: MongoDB Persistence with Record;
8.1 Connecting to a MongoDB Database;
8.2 Storing a Hash Map in a MongoDB Record;
8.3 Storing an Enumeration in MongoDB;
8.4 Embedding a Document Inside a MongoDB Record;
8.5 Linking Between MongoDB Records;
8.6 Using Rogue;
8.7 Storing Geospatial Values;
8.8 Running Queries from the Scala Console;
8.9 Unit Testing Record with MongoDB;
Chapter 9: Around Lift;
9.1 Sending Plain-Text Email;
9.2 Logging Email Rather than Sending;
9.3 SMTP Authentication;
9.4 Sending Authenticated Email;
9.5 Sending Email with Attachments;
9.6 Run a Task Later;
9.7 Run Tasks Periodically;
9.8 Fetching URLs;
Chapter 10: Production Deployment;
10.1 Deploying to CloudBees;
10.2 Deploying to Amazon Elastic Beanstalk;
10.3 Deploying to Heroku;
10.4 Distributing Comet Across Multiple Servers;
Chapter 11: Contributing, Bug Reports, and Getting Help;
11.1 You’d Like Some Help;
11.2 How to Report Bugs;
11.3 Contributing Small Code Changes and ScalaDoc;
11.4 Contributing Documentation;
11.5 How to Add a New Recipe to This Cookbook;
11.6 Sharing Code in Modules;
Index;
Colophon;