Why isn’t my serverside callback occurring when I use ‘jQuery ajax’ in 2.9?

> I'm trying to do something like this in seaside 2.9
>
> html button
>  onClick: (html jQuery ajax
>  serialize: (html jQuery this);
>  script: [:s | s << (s jQuery id: stratId) append: [html text:
> 'bing'. html break]]);
>  callback: [2 inspect];
> with: 'add option'.
>
> and as I expect my div with stratId is getting appended but I'm not
> getting an inspect window in my squeak image? What's the right way to
> do this?

>> This is presumably because the form doesn't actually get submitted?
>
> #serializeThis serializes the element that triggered the event, in
> this case this "would" be the button.
>
> The reasons buttons don't serialize are indeed forms: If you serialize
> multiple inputs -- for example when you serialize a series of input
> fields or a complete form -- you most certainly don't want that a
> random button callback (e.g. add item, save, and cancel) is triggered
> (in fact, only the last one would actually be executed). That's why
> button callbacks are ignored and you are asked to perform your actions
> from within the callback of the AJAX element itself. It is only at
> that place where you know what action to perform.
>
> To put it simple: The original poster created a AJAX callback that was
> supposed to trigger a button callback. Instead of doing this
> unnecessary indirection why not simply call the button action from the
> AJAX callback?
>
> Lukas
>
> --
> Lukas Renggli
> http://www.lukas-renggli.ch
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