Enhanced AJAX Feedback Submission and Error Fixes

📅 2024-03-15 — Session: Enhanced AJAX Feedback Submission and Error Fixes

🕒 22:00–23:40
🏷️ Labels: AJAX, Flask, Firestore, Debugging, Web Development
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The primary goal of this session was to enhance the feedback submission process by integrating AJAX to prevent page redirection, fix errors in the Flask application, and ensure proper data submission to Firestore.

Key Activities

• Modified feedback submission behavior to prevent redirection and fixed a KeyError in the teacher time submission process.
• Integrated AJAX into the HTML feedback form using jQuery to enable seamless user experience without page reloads.
• Corrected URL endpoint mismatches in Flask, ensuring proper routing and template existence.
• Diagnosed and resolved Firestore submission issues by checking permissions, validating data fields, and enhancing error handling.
• Troubleshot feedback submission issues in Flask, focusing on form field names, AJAX, server-side logging, and Firestore operations.
• Debugged the submit_feedback function in Firestore, addressing method usage, form field mismatches, and logging practices.
• Adjusted the feedback form to include exercise_id as a hidden input field for accurate data submission.

Achievements

• Successfully integrated AJAX for feedback submission, improving user experience.
• Resolved Flask routing errors and ensured correct data submission to Firestore.
• Enhanced error handling and logging practices for better debugging and monitoring.

Pending Tasks

• Conduct thorough integration testing to ensure all changes work seamlessly together.
• Review server-side logging to further enhance error detection and resolution.