How to track changes to a nested RecordList in each ListGridRecord

[jay.l.fisher]

I have a ListGrid that is populated with records and with setAutoSaveEdits(false). One of the fields in each grid record is a nested RecordList containing related child records.

I'm using other UI components to edit the nested child records in each ListGrid record and I want to track those pending changes like any other field in the main ListGrid record, so that those changes are recognized when I call saveAllEdits().

If it was a simple text field I would use grid.setEditValue(rowNum, "childField", newValue) but there is no version of setEditValue that takes a Record[] as the newValue parameter.

Is there another way to apply changes to the nested child records so that the main grid record is flagged for update when I call grid.saveAllEdits()?

[jay.l.fisher]

Any advice here? I've tried just getting the grid data as a record list and then setting the value on the record, but the updated data in that case gets sent to the server as an oldValue().

[Isomorphic]

Sorry, forgot to update the thread. You should be allowed to set a whole Record or Record[] as an editValue, and those APIs have just been added.

[ggedal]

is this added to LGPL version ? where can I see it. Thanks.

[smartgwt.dev]

http://www.smartclient.com/builds

[jay.l.fisher]

I see the new API and am able to store the new Record[] as an edit value. But if I then use getEditValue() the Object returned is a JavaScriptObject which cannot be cast back into a Record[]. How do I get access to the edit value as a Record[]?

[Isomorphic]

Hi Jay
For now you can use JSOHelper convertToRefDataClassArray(JavaScriptObject editVals); to achieve this.
We're looking at how to make this simpler, probably by adding type-specific getters [getEditValuesAsRecordArray() etc or similar]