From: Art Cancro <ajc@citadel.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 23:25:50 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: wowzers!  we can survive a server problem now.  put the original div text back if... 
X-Git-Tag: v939~412
X-Git-Url: https://code.citadel.org/?p=citadel.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=d41e1a56e4f10994ea88d2dd3680f273c4e8eb8d

wowzers!  we can survive a server problem now.  put the original div text back if there's an error.
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diff --git a/webcit-ng/static/js/views.js b/webcit-ng/static/js/views.js
index 7e10e3668..12642210f 100644
--- a/webcit-ng/static/js/views.js
+++ b/webcit-ng/static/js/views.js
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ function render_room_view(gt_msg, lt_msg)
 //
 function forum_readmessages(target_div, gt_msg, lt_msg)
 {
+	original_text = document.getElementById(target_div).innerHTML;		// in case we need to replace it after an error
 	document.getElementById(target_div).innerHTML = 
 		"<i class=\"fas fa-spinner fa-spin\"></i>&nbsp;&nbsp;"
 		+ _("Loading messages from server, please wait") ;
@@ -130,8 +131,7 @@ function forum_readmessages(target_div, gt_msg, lt_msg)
 			}
 			else
 			{
-				document.getElementById(target_div).innerHTML = "error put it back";
-				alert("ERROR " + this.status + " retrieving messages from server");
+				document.getElementById(target_div).innerHTML = original_text;		// this will make the link reappear so the user can try again
 			}
 		}
 	};