function twistEntityRequest(twistEntityRequest) {
	var spinnerOptions = {
		lines: 13, // The number of lines to draw
		length: 10, // The length of each line
		width: 5, // The line thickness
		radius: 10, // The radius of the inner circle
		corners: 1, // Corner roundness (0..1)
		rotate: 0, // The rotation offset
		direction: 1, // 1: clockwise, -1: counterclockwise
		color: ['#069f43','#1c68cf'], // twist green and twist blue
		speed: 1, // Rounds per second
		trail: 60, // Afterglow percentage
		shadow: false, // Whether to render a shadow
		hwaccel: false, // Whether to use hardware acceleration
		className: 'twistAjaxSpinner', // The CSS class to assign to the spinner
		zIndex: 2e9, // The z-index (defaults to 2000000000)
		top: '50%', // Top position relative to parent
		left: '50%' // Left position relative to parent
	};
	$('body').spin(spinnerOptions);
	var arrTwistPostData = {};
	numTwistEntityRequestParametersStart = twistEntityRequest.indexOf('&');

	if (numTwistEntityRequestParametersStart == -1) {
		twistEntityRequestCode	= twistEntityRequest;
		arrTwistPostData['entityRequestCode'] = twistEntityRequestCode;
	} else {
		twistEntityRequestCode = twistEntityRequest.substr(0,numTwistEntityRequestParametersStart);
		arrTwistPostData['entityRequestCode'] = twistEntityRequestCode;
		twistEntityRequestParameters = twistEntityRequest.substr(numTwistEntityRequestParametersStart+1);
		arrTwistEntityRequestParameters = twistEntityRequestParameters.split('&');
		for(value in arrTwistEntityRequestParameters){
			numTwistWhereEqual = (arrTwistEntityRequestParameters[value].indexOf('='));
			strTwistArrayKey = arrTwistEntityRequestParameters[value].substr(0,numTwistWhereEqual);
			strTwistArrayValue = arrTwistEntityRequestParameters[value].substr(numTwistWhereEqual+1);			
			arrTwistPostData[strTwistArrayKey] = strTwistArrayValue;
		}
	}

	loadEntityRequest = '/twist/loadEntityRequest';
	$.post(loadEntityRequest, arrTwistPostData,
	function(returnData) {
		//$('#twistDebug').html(returnData);
		//alert(returnData);
		numObjectCount = (returnData.split('["').length - 1)
		modal = false;
		modalCount = 0;

		while (numObjectCount>0) {
			numStartDelimiter = returnData.indexOf('["');
			numEndDelimiter = returnData.indexOf('"]');
			strObjectID = '#' + returnData.substring(numStartDelimiter+2,numEndDelimiter);
			returnData = returnData.substring(numEndDelimiter+2);

			if (numObjectCount==1) {
				numStartDelimiter = returnData.length;				
			} else {
				numStartDelimiter = returnData.indexOf('["');
			}

			strObjectData = returnData.substring(0,numStartDelimiter);
			returnData = returnData.substring(numStartDelimiter);
			numObjectCount = numObjectCount - 1;

			switch(1==1) {
				case (strObjectID=='#twistWindow'):
					windowHeight = (windowHeight>0) ? windowHeight : 600;
					windowWidth = (windowWidth>0) ? windowWidth : 1200;
					windowWidth=80;

					//if ((strObjectID=='#twistModalWindow' && $('#twistModalWindow' + windowID).length==0) || (strObjectID=='#twistWindow' && $('#twistWindow' + windowID).length==0)) {
					if ((strObjectID=='#twistWindow')) {
						if ($('#twistWindow' + windowID).length>0) {
							// closes any matching windows.  this won't work long term
							twistWindowClose(windowID);
						}

						$(this).twistWindow({
							closeIcon: windowCloseIcon,
							content: strObjectData,
							draggable: windowDraggable,
							entityRequestID: windowEntityRequestID,
							height: windowHeight,
							id: windowID,
							left: ((($(window).width() - windowWidth)/2)-24),
							modal: windowModal,
							resizeable: windowResizeable,
							title: windowTitle,
							top: windowTop,
							width: windowWidth,
							zindex: windowZIndex
						});
					}
					break;
				case (strObjectID=='#twistWindowOptions'):
					windowCenterH = twistParseQueryString(strObjectData,'centerH','|');
					windowCenterV = twistParseQueryString(strObjectData,'centerV','|');
					windowCloseIcon = twistParseQueryString(strObjectData,'closeIcon','|');
					windowDraggable = twistParseQueryString(strObjectData,'draggable','|');
					windowEntityRequestID = twistParseQueryString(strObjectData,'entityRequestID','|');
					windowHeight = twistParseQueryString(strObjectData,'height','|');
					windowID = twistParseQueryString(strObjectData,'id','|');
					windowLeft = twistParseQueryString(strObjectData,'left','|');
					windowModal = twistParseQueryString(strObjectData,'modal','|');
					windowResizeable = twistParseQueryString(strObjectData,'resizeable','|');
					windowTitle = twistParseQueryString(strObjectData,'title','|');
					windowTop = twistParseQueryString(strObjectData,'top','|');
					windowWidth = twistParseQueryString(strObjectData,'width','|');
					windowZIndex = twistParseQueryString(strObjectData,'zindex','|');
					break;
				default:
					//alert('default');
					$(strObjectID).html(strObjectData);
			}
		}

		$('body').spin(false);
	});
}

// twist! function to handle entity requests
function twistLoadEntityRequest(twistEntityRequest) {
	var spinnerOptions = {
		lines: 13, // The number of lines to draw
		length: 10, // The length of each line
		width: 5, // The line thickness
		radius: 10, // The radius of the inner circle
		corners: 1, // Corner roundness (0..1)
		rotate: 0, // The rotation offset
		direction: 1, // 1: clockwise, -1: counterclockwise
		color: ['#069f43','#1c68cf'], // twist green and twist blue
		speed: 1, // Rounds per second
		trail: 60, // Afterglow percentage
		shadow: false, // Whether to render a shadow
		hwaccel: false, // Whether to use hardware acceleration
		className: 'twistAjaxSpinner', // The CSS class to assign to the spinner
	  zIndex: 2e9, // The z-index (defaults to 2000000000)
		top: '50%', // Top position relative to parent
	  left: '50%' // Left position relative to parent
	};

	$('body').spin(spinnerOptions);
	var arrTwistPostData = {};
	numTwistEntityRequestParametersStart = twistEntityRequest.indexOf('&');

	if (numTwistEntityRequestParametersStart == -1) {
		twistEntityRequestCode	= twistEntityRequest;
		arrTwistPostData['entityRequestCode'] = twistEntityRequestCode;
	} else {
		twistEntityRequestCode = twistEntityRequest.substr(0,numTwistEntityRequestParametersStart);
		arrTwistPostData['entityRequestCode'] = twistEntityRequestCode;
		twistEntityRequestParameters = twistEntityRequest.substr(numTwistEntityRequestParametersStart+1);
		arrTwistEntityRequestParameters = twistEntityRequestParameters.split('&');

		for(value in arrTwistEntityRequestParameters){
			numTwistWhereEqual = (arrTwistEntityRequestParameters[value].indexOf('='));
			strTwistArrayKey = arrTwistEntityRequestParameters[value].substr(0,numTwistWhereEqual);
			strTwistArrayValue = arrTwistEntityRequestParameters[value].substr(numTwistWhereEqual+1);			
			arrTwistPostData[strTwistArrayKey] = strTwistArrayValue;
		}
	}

	loadEntityRequest = '/twist/loadEntityRequest';
	$.post(loadEntityRequest, arrTwistPostData,

	function(returnData) {
		//$('#twistDebug').html(returnData);
		//alert(returnData);
		numObjectCount = (returnData.split('["').length - 1)
		modal = false;
		modalCount = 0;

		while (numObjectCount>0) {
			numStartDelimiter = returnData.indexOf('["');
			numEndDelimiter = returnData.indexOf('"]');
			strObjectID = '#' + returnData.substring(numStartDelimiter+2,numEndDelimiter);
			returnData = returnData.substring(numEndDelimiter+2);

			if (numObjectCount==1) {
				numStartDelimiter = returnData.length;				
			} else {
				numStartDelimiter = returnData.indexOf('["');
			}

			strObjectData = returnData.substring(0,numStartDelimiter);
			returnData = returnData.substring(numStartDelimiter);
			numObjectCount = numObjectCount - 1;

			switch(1==1) {
				case (strObjectID=='#twistWindow'):
					windowHeight = (windowHeight>0) ? windowHeight : 600;
					windowWidth = (windowWidth>0) ? windowWidth : 1200;
					windowWidth=80;

					//if ((strObjectID=='#twistModalWindow' && $('#twistModalWindow' + windowID).length==0) || (strObjectID=='#twistWindow' && $('#twistWindow' + windowID).length==0)) {

					if ((strObjectID=='#twistWindow')) {
						if ($('#twistWindow' + windowID).length>0) {
							// closes any matching windows.  this won't work long term
							twistWindowClose(windowID);
						}

						$(this).twistWindow({
							closeIcon: windowCloseIcon,
							content: strObjectData,
							draggable: windowDraggable,
							entityRequestID: windowEntityRequestID,
							height: windowHeight,
							id: windowID,
							left: ((($(window).width() - windowWidth)/2)-24),
							modal: windowModal,
							resizeable: windowResizeable,
							title: windowTitle,
							top: windowTop,
							width: windowWidth,
							zindex: windowZIndex
						});
					}
					break;
				case (strObjectID=='#twistWindowOptions'):
					windowCenterH = twistParseQueryString(strObjectData,'centerH','|');
					windowCenterV = twistParseQueryString(strObjectData,'centerV','|');
					windowCloseIcon = twistParseQueryString(strObjectData,'closeIcon','|');
					windowDraggable = twistParseQueryString(strObjectData,'draggable','|');
					windowEntityRequestID = twistParseQueryString(strObjectData,'entityRequestID','|');
					windowHeight = twistParseQueryString(strObjectData,'height','|');
					windowID = twistParseQueryString(strObjectData,'id','|');
					windowLeft = twistParseQueryString(strObjectData,'left','|');
					windowModal = twistParseQueryString(strObjectData,'modal','|');
					windowResizeable = twistParseQueryString(strObjectData,'resizeable','|');
					windowTitle = twistParseQueryString(strObjectData,'title','|');
					windowTop = twistParseQueryString(strObjectData,'top','|');
					windowWidth = twistParseQueryString(strObjectData,'width','|');
					windowZIndex = twistParseQueryString(strObjectData,'zindex','|');
					break;
				default:
					//alert('default');
					$(strObjectID).html(strObjectData);
			}
		}
		$('body').spin(false);
	});
}

// twist! function to parse query strings
function twistParseQueryString(queryString,parameter,delimiter)	{
	delimiter = (typeof delimiter === 'undefined') ? '=' : delimiter;
	var query = {};
	var a = queryString.split('&');
	for (var i in a) {
		var b = a[i].split(delimiter);

		if (b[0]==parameter) {
			return b[1];
		}
	}
	return '';
}

// twist! function to sort a select list
function twistSortSelectListByText(selectID) {
	var sortOptions = $('#'+ selectID + ' option').sort(function(a, b) {
		 return a.text == b.text ? 0 : a.text < b.text ? -1 : 1
	});
	$('#' + selectID).html(sortOptions);              
};

function twistWindowClose(windowHandle) {
	$('#twistWindow'+windowHandle).remove();
	$('#twistWindowVeil' +windowHandle).remove();				 
	$('body').css({ 
		'overflow':'visible',
	});
}

$(document).on('click','.twistEntityRequest',function() {
	twistLoadEntityRequest($(this).attr('data-entityRequest')); 
});