Class Ext.data.DirectStore

Note: this should be set to true when using stores that are bound to only 1 component.

Defaults to true causing the store to automatically save records to the server when a record is modified (ie: becomes 'dirty'). Specify false to manually call save to send all modifiedRecords to the server.

Note: each CRUD action will be sent as a separate request.

An object containing properties which are to be sent as parameters for every HTTP request.

Parameters are encoded as standard HTTP parameters using Ext.urlEncode.

Note: baseParams may be superseded by any params specified in a load request, see load for more details.

Defaults to true (unless restful:true). Multiple requests for each CRUD action (CREATE, READ, UPDATE and DESTROY) will be combined and sent as one transaction. Only applies when autoSave is set to false.

If Store is RESTful, the DataProxy is also RESTful, and a unique transaction is generated for each record.

A config object containing one or more event handlers to be added to this object during initialization. This should be a valid listeners config object as specified in the addListener example for attaching multiple handlers at once.

DOM events from ExtJs Components

While some ExtJs Component classes export selected DOM events (e.g. "click", "mouseover" etc), this is usually only done when extra value can be added. For example the DataView's click event passing the node clicked on. To access DOM events directly from a Component's HTMLElement, listeners must be added to the Element after the Component has been rendered. A plugin can simplify this step:

// Plugin is configured with a listeners config object.
// The Component is appended to the argument list of all handler functions.
Ext.DomObserver = Ext.extend(Object, {
    constructor: function(config) {
        this.listeners = config.listeners ? config.listeners : config;
    },

    // Component passes itself into plugin's init method
    init: function(c) {
        var p, l = this.listeners;
        for (p in l) {
            if (Ext.isFunction(l[p])) {
                l[p] = this.createHandler(l[p], c);
            } else {
                l[p].fn = this.createHandler(l[p].fn, c);
            }
        }

        // Add the listeners to the Element immediately following the render call
        c.render = c.render.createSequence(function() {
            var e = c.getEl();
            if (e) {
                e.on(l);
            }
        });
    },

    createHandler: function(fn, c) {
        return function(e) {
            fn.call(this, e, c);
        };
    }
});

var combo = new Ext.form.ComboBox({

    // Collapse combo when its element is clicked on
    plugins: [ new Ext.DomObserver({
        click: function(evt, comp) {
            comp.collapse();
        }
    })],
    store: myStore,
    typeAhead: true,
    mode: 'local',
    triggerAction: 'all'
});

An object containing properties which specify the names of the paging and sorting parameters passed to remote servers when loading blocks of data. By default, this object takes the following form:

{
    start : 'start',  // The parameter name which specifies the start row
    limit : 'limit',  // The parameter name which specifies number of rows to return
    sort : 'sort',    // The parameter name which specifies the column to sort on
    dir : 'dir'       // The parameter name which specifies the sort direction
}

The server must produce the requested data block upon receipt of these parameter names. If different parameter names are required, this property can be overriden using a configuration property.

A PagingToolbar bound to this Store uses this property to determine the parameter names to use in its requests.

If remoteSort is true, then clicking on a Grid Column's header causes the current page to be requested from the server appending the following two parameters to the params:

Note: if restful:true batch will internally be set to false.

sortInfo: {
    field: 'fieldName',
    direction: 'ASC' // or 'DESC' (case sensitive for local sorting)
}

Note: if a (deprecated) id is specified it will supersede the storeId assignment.

The Writer object which processes a record object for being written to the server-side database.

When a writer is installed into a Store the add, remove, and update events on the store are monitored in order to remotely create records, destroy records, or update records.

The proxy for this store will relay any writexception events to this store.

Sample implementation:

var writer = new Ext.data.JsonWriter({
    encode: true,
    writeAllFields: true // write all fields, not just those that changed
});

// Typical Store collecting the Proxy, Reader and Writer together.
var store = new Ext.data.Store({
    storeId: 'user',
    root: 'records',
    proxy: proxy,
    reader: reader,
    writer: writer,     // <-- plug a DataWriter into the store just as you would a Reader
    paramsAsHash: true,
    autoSave: false    // <-- false to delay executing create, update, destroy requests
                        //     until specifically told to do so.
});