Using Datastores

Datastores provide access to data through a standardized interface for talking to data services. The most common operations performed on data are:

• Terminology

  Useful definitions used throughout the documentation.

• A Simple Data Source and Examples

  A definition of what data sources are and examples of connecting data stores to widgets.

• Fetching data items

  How to fetch a single data item and display attributes of that item.

• Fetching multiple data items and values

  How to fetch multiple items at once and display attribute values.

• Selecting subsets of data items (filtering)

  How to select subsets of items through query filters.

• Nested Items and Lazy Loading

  How to access item attributes that have values which are other data items and how dojo.data defines lazy-loading of child items should be done.

• Too much data, I need paging!

  How to use the dojo.data interface to access large data sets through subsets (pages).

• Sorting data items into defined orders

  How to issue a fetch of data that returns data items in sorted order.

• FAQ (frequent questions about using dojo.data)

See also

Dojo Toolkit comes with a wide range of Datastores:

• Basic datastores dojo.data.ItemFileReadStore and dojo.data.ItemFileWriteStore
• List of additional available Datastores

Table of Contents

• Using Datastores
  • See also