also added a new method shinysession$registerDataObj(), which was designed to be a general data retrieval method: we can store arbitrary data objects as "downloads", and return arbitrary http response based on the filter function; see renderDataTable() and updateSelectizeInput() for two examples
All render functions need to call markRenderFunction on their
return values for this mechanism to work.
Also:
- Remove runRmdContainer (it's moved to rmarkdown)
- Remove some bad .Rbuildignore entries
- Make height/width in shinyApp respected
I always thought dots and colons were illegal in HTML ID attributes,
but I was wrong. They are legal and because they are commonly used
in identifier names in R, Shiny users often like to use them. Worse,
Shiny gave no warnings when using dots and only a pretty advanced
subset of functionality would NOT work when using dots, causing
everyone to think they were fully supported in Shiny.
This commit ought to bring reality in line with perception. It turns
out that jQuery has an escaping scheme in its queries that allow us
to support dots after all. As long as we are always careful to
surround IDs with $escape when putting them in a query, we'll be in
good shape.
Colons will probably still cause problems at the moment because we
use colons internally to separate input type from input name. But
we've never seen users try to use colon in IDs before, so we can
wait to fix it until that becomes a problem.
In the repo https://github.com/rstudio/shiny-testapp/ the test app
called "setinput" threw errors in IE8 due to the debouncer getting
triggered incorrectly. Essentially Debouncer.$invoke was being
called twice without an intervening normalCall or immediateCall,
which caused apply to be called with this.args === null. Upon
careful inspection/debugging it seems like this may be a bug in the
IE8 implementation of setTimeout/clearTimeout:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5853571/clarifying-cleartimeout-behavior-in-ie
In any case, the workaround is to check for a null timer id, which
means we tried to clear the timer at least.
This makes the following JS console message (as noted in #271) go away:
event.returnValue is deprecated. Please use the standard event.preventDefault() instead.
