DsRequest and comma separated values

Technical Q&A
1

I’ve noticed this issue when i was sending the value of a SelectItem with multiple selection to the server. If I do a fetchData to the server with a criteria that has as value 1,2,3, on the server side i see in the request only 3 (the value after the last comma).

The same thing happened when I was trying to order a ListGrid by multiple columns. Order by columnA,columnB, would get only _sortBy=>columnB on the server.

The solution that i found was to wrap the value between quotes before the DsRequest was fetching the data.

Is this a bug?

Versions: Smartclient 8.0 and also nightly build SmartClient_SC_SNAPSHOT-2011-05-11_LGPL

2

Try putting together a standalone test case - we’re not even clear on how you’re providing such a value in the DSRequest.

3

Ok, I’ve checked the console and looking at the RPCRequest I can see that this is not a SmartClient issue:

{
    "actionURL":"test.php", 
    "showPrompt":true, 
    "prompt":"Finding records that match your criteria...", 
    "transport":"xmlHttpRequest", 
    "useSimpleHttp":true, 
    "promptStyle":"cursor", 
    "params":{
        "_operationType":"fetch", 
        "_startRow":0, 
        "_endRow":50, 


  [B]      "_sortBy":[
            "columnA", 
            "columnB",
            "columnC",
        ], [/B] 


        "_textMatchStyle":"substring", 
        "_componentId":"myGrid", 
        "_dataSource":"ds", 
        "isc_metaDataPrefix":"_", 
        "isc_dataFormat":"json"
    }, 
    "httpMethod":"GET", 
    "sendNoQueue":true, 
    "bypassCache":true, 
    "callback":{
        "target":[RestDataSource ID:ds]
    }, 
    "willHandleError":true, 
    "serverOutputAsString":true, 
    "clientContext":{
        "requestIndex":2, 
        "$69t":null
    }, 
    "data":null
}

My problem is that $_REQUEST[“_sortBy”] returns me only “columnC”.