Nesting params sent by dataProcessor?

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#1

I’m wondering if it’s possible to nest the params being sent by the dataProcessor.

I see that you can set it up to use meaningful names, defined by the columns as mentioned here:
docs.dhtmlx.com/doku.php?id=dhtm … nfig_debug

But I’m wondering if you can have something like this for the params passed to the server:
{ book: { title: “DHTMLX for Dummies”, author: “Unknown” }, user: { name: “John Doe”} }

Instead of this:
{ book: “DHTMLX for Dummies”, author: “Unknown” }

On the server, I’m having to do a bunch of extra work to ignore certain params since everything is being passed in as one group. Would be great if I could do something like params("book), params(“user”), etc.

But I’m not sure if DHTMLX supports what I’m asking for.

Thanks

Kenton

#2

There is no ready solution, but you can redefine method serialize of dataprocessor - this method receives data object with all updated related data and returns the string for sending to server side.

dp.serialize = function(obj, id){ return some_custom_logic(obj).toString(); }

#3

Figured this out.

To get something like this passed in as the params:
{ book: { title: “DHTMLX for Dummies”, author: “Unknown” }, user: { name: “John Doe”} }

You can define something like this using the grid.setColumnIds function:

grid.setColumnIds(“book[‘title’],book[‘author’],user[‘name’]”);

At least with Ruby on Rails, which is what I’m using server side, that gets interpreted to include the nesting I was looking for.