General question / best practice: When to use ListGrid.setAutoFetchData(true) ?

[Blama]

Hi Isomorphic,

I'm wondering why there is a mechanism like DataBoundComponent.setAutoFetchData(true).
The docs say "Generally, turn off autoFetchData if you are going to manually call fetchData() at any time.", which is what I do.

In which cases is it useful to have AutoFetchData? The two advantages I see are:

• It saves a line of code
• The framework **might** be able to recognize two simultaneously issued requests (from a draw() call to a Layout with many DataBound members?) and combine them in a Queue. I don't know if that's even done.

Are there more advantages? When do you suggest to use autoFetchData?

Thank you & Best regards,
Blama

[Isomorphic]

autoFetchData is a minor convenience, useful partly because it can turn a programmatic call into a declarative setting in eg Component XML.

Beyond that, there's not a best practice here aside what you've quoted from the docs: if you need to call fetchData() programmatically (there are dozens of reasons why you might need to), then don't use the autoFetchData setting.

[Blama]

Thanks for the fast answer. I'll do so.

Best regards,
Blama