The following comment has been added to this issue:

     Author: Bastian Bowe
    Created: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 9:22 AM
       Body:
Is there a version of dt_pdf_paging.diff against a newer snapshot. I would be 
very thankfull if one could post a diff against the trunk, because I need some 
features of rc2 together with you nice patch.
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        Key: DISPL-14
    Summary: Smart Paging
       Type: Improvement

     Status: Open
   Priority: Major

 Original Estimate: Unknown
 Time Spent: Unknown
  Remaining: Unknown

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

   Assignee: fabrizio giustina
   Reporter: fabrizio giustina

    Created: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 4:39 AM
    Updated: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 9:22 AM

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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