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    Created: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 4:38 PM
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Shouldn't the affected version be 1.0 RC1, since James mentioned in his comment that 
he made those changes ontop of 1.0 rc1?  Where and when can a Smart Paging RC2 version 
be published?
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        Key: DISPL-14
    Summary: Smart Paging
       Type: Improvement

     Status: Unassigned
   Priority: Major

 Original Estimate: Unknown
 Time Spent: Unknown
  Remaining: Unknown

    Project: DisplayTag
 Components: 
             Paging/Sorting
   Versions:
             1.0 RC2

   Assignee: 
   Reporter: fabrizio giustina

    Created: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 4:39 AM
    Updated: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 4:38 PM

Description:
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imported from sf tracker
id 1026408 
submitted by Ivan Markov - ivan_markov
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&group_id=73068&atid=536613&aid=1026408
 
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Smart Paging
------------

Smart paging refers to the ability of DT to deal with large lists of data. The problem 
with the current DT approach is that:
a) The whole (potentially large) list of data has to be created for the DT tag, 
occupying lots of memory.
b) If the list contains 1000s of records, populated with data from a SQL Server (99% 
of the cases, I would say), you have huge network traffic between the webapp and the 
server. Our code is especially useful for servers like Oracle & MySQL which have 
built-in means to return only a subset of DB cursor's content.

There's one solution + one enhancement on the forums already (issue #1013526), so why 
a third one?

We didn't like in the earlier proposal that it deals with intercepting DT's request 
and parsing DT's request parameters, which seems a bit hacky. Also, we avoid the 
complications of parsing parameters when there is > 1 table tag on the page. Not to 
mention that the older proposal does not deal with full list sorting, or does it?

Instead, we introduced a new interface, DataProvider. It has two methods:
- List getData(int unsortedOffset, int unsortedLength, int recordOffset, int pageSize, 
String sortedColumnName, boolean sortOrderAscending);
- int getDataCount();

The first two parameters unsortedOffset & unsortedLength are only needed for 
supporting DT's setOffset()/setLength() features.

In our patch, DataProvider is used as a "callback" into user's code. The user is 
supposed to implement the two methods of this interface.

The code in TableTag and its supporting classes is changed in a way that, for each 
response where DT is rendered,
a) One call is issued to DataProvider.getDataCount(), which retrieves the total number 
of rows in the data set (needed for DT to calculate the number of pages).
b) One call is issued to DataProvider.getData(), with the current page, page size & 
sorting info.

A sample implementation of user-supplied JDBC DataProvider follows, in pseudocode. 
Some JDBC exception handling stuff omitted.

<%
request.setAttribute("list", new DataProvider() {
    List getData(int unsortedOffset, int unsortedLength, int recordOffset, int 
pageSize, String sortedColumnName, boolean sortOrderAscending) {
        Connection con = <app-specific way to get connection>;
        
        PreparedStatement ps = con.prepareStatement("SELECT * FROM MyTable ORDER BY ? 
LIMIT ?, ?"):
        ps.setString(1, sortedColumnName);
        ps.setInt(2, recordOffset);
        ps.setInt(3, pageSize);
                //etc..         
        ResultSet rs = con.execute();
                                
        return <app-specific way of getting List from ResultSet; Maybe use RowSet 
instead of List?>;
    }
    
    int getDataCount() {
        Connection con = <app-specific way to get connection>;

                PreparedStatement ps = con.prepareStatement("SELECT count(*) FROM 
MyTable"):
                ResultSet rs = con.execute();
                rs.next();
                return rs.getInt(1);
    }
});
%>

(DataProvider implementation code can be moved to Struts Controller/Action, depending 
on the MVC framework used, in order not to polute the JSP code with Java scriptlets.)

Smart Paging Compatibility
--------------------------

We tried to change DT's code so that all older code to continue to work.
If user has provided an old-style List containing all the data, DT will automatically 
wrap it with a ListDataProvider.
Current DT functionality (full-list sorting, decorations, multiple tables per page, 
etc.) is supported, except for these two cases:
a) Full list(not page) sorting by a decorated column - sorting is done without 
regarding the decorator.
b) Full list sorting by a column with no "property" attribute (static or implicit 
object call via servlet) - no sorting is performed at all.




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