dojox.data.ServiceStore

Authors:Kris Zyp Developers:Kris Zyp since:V1.2

Contents

• dojox.data.ServiceStore
  • Introduction
  • Usage

ServiceStore is an adapter for web services to implement the Dojo Data API, providing simple Dojo Data access for web services.

Introduction

dojox.rpc.Service provides a comprehensive mechanism for connecting to web services, and can be auto-configured based on Service Mapping Descriptions (SMDs), and these services can be used directly with the ServiceStore for use with Dojo Data store consumer. This page provides directions for creating a ServiceStore from a web service. This page describes features of ServiceStore and it’s subclass JsonRestStore.

Usage

To create an instance of a ServiceStore, simply instantiate providing the service to be used as the source:

// first include ServiceStore:
dojo.require('dojox.data.ServiceStore');

myService = new dojox.rpc.Service(mySMD);
myServiceStore = new dojox.data.ServiceStore({service:myService});

// first include ServiceStore: dojo.require('dojox.data.ServiceStore'); myService = new dojox.rpc.Service(mySMD); myServiceStore = new dojox.data.ServiceStore({service:myService});

When extending this class, if you would like to create lazy objects, you can follow the example from dojox.data.tests.stores.ServiceStore:

var lazyItem = {
    _loadObject: function(callback){
        this.name="loaded";
        delete this._loadObject;
        callback(this);
    }
};

var lazyItem = { _loadObject: function(callback){ this.name="loaded"; delete this._loadObject; callback(this); } };

dojox.data.ServiceStore should be instantiated with a single argument that is an object that can have any of these properties:

The schema parameter

This is a schema object for this store. This should be JSON Schema format.

The service parameter

This is the service object that is used to retrieve lazy data and save results The function should be directly callable with a single parameter of an object id to be loaded

The idAttribute parameter

Defaults to ‘id’. The name of the attribute that holds an objects id. This can be a preexisting id provided by the server. If an ID isn’t already provided when an object is fetched or added to the store, the autoIdentity system will generate an id for it and add it to the index.

The syncMode parameter

Setting this to true will set the store to using synchronous calls by default. Sync calls return their data immediately from the calling function, so callbacks are unnecessary. This will only work with a synchronous capable service.

Table of Contents

• dojox.data.ServiceStore
  • Introduction
  • Usage