On Sep 21, 2009, at 4:33 PM, Asiri Rathnayake
wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Vincent Massol
<vincent(a)massol.net> wrote:
I'd also like to know if we can support the
use case of having a
normal table for which we'd like to do filtering/sorting.
Could that be a special {{table}} macro that would use the
{{livetable}} macro with a special source that takes the content of
the {{table}} macro as the content to be displayed and extract
from it
both the content and the table definition?
I think it's better to keep the livetable macro as I defined earlier
(dynamically fetch json...). This way it will have a specific
meaning. If we
are to make livetable macro support this usecase, we have to either:
1. Make livetable macro even more generic.
2. Stuff up livetable macro which will enable this usecase.
I can't think of a reasonable approach to achieve 1) and 2) is bad.
My though
was that the implementation of {{table}} would generate 2
things:
- a {{livetable}} macro with the content being the definition of
columns extracted from the {{table}} contnet
- calls a generic special JSON source that knows how to extract data
from a given document and a given table id (that's relatively easy
using the XDOM information)
or pass the full {{table}} macro content to the special JSON source
which is better since we don't need to use table ids.