How to persist filter params after running an action on in a has_many_field turbo frame?

[alimi]

On a show page with a has_many association, you can filter the has_many records. For example if a company has_many customers and I'm on the company page with a has_many :customers field, I could filter the customers by name. Then, I might run an action on the filtered customers. When I finish running the action, the page reloads and the customers filters are reset.

I believe the filters get reset because Avo::ActionsController is redirecting to the request referrer.

avo/app/controllers/avo/actions_controller.rb

Lines 131 to 135 in c60e854

	else
	# Reload the page
	back_path = request.referer || params[:referrer].presence || resources_path(resource: @resource)
	turbo_stream.redirect_to(back_path)

The filter params would be in the has_many_field_show_customers turbo frame as the src, but the request referrer is /resources/company/42 which has no information about the turbo frame. If we could pass the turbo frame information to the action, could Avo::ActionsController#respond refresh the turbo frame instead of reloading the whole page? Then, the turbo frame would have its filters in place.

Or is there another way to keep the filter params around? In our app we do a lot of filtering and data updates, and losing the filters is a bummer.

[Paul-Bob]

Hello.

You could use close_modal (aliased as do_nothing) https://docs.avohq.io/3.0/actions.html#close_modal and it will just close the modal and flash the alerts without any redirect.

If you want to reload the table content you could use append_to_response (https://docs.avohq.io/3.0/actions.html#append_to_response), inside that block you can use the turbo_frame_reload to reload the frame around the has many field.

Something like:

def handle(**args)
  succeed "Modal closed!!"
  close_modal

  append_to_response -> {
    turbo_stream.turbo_frame_reload(the_turbo_frame)
  }
end

Let us know how it goes

[alimi]

Awesome, one of those should work! I’ll follow up when I’m back at my computer next week.