[FLEX-9654] DataGrid and DataGridColumn to support complex paths in dataField

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Adobe Flex SDK 3.0 (Release)
• Fix Version/s: Adobe Flex SDK 3.0 (Release)
• Component/s: mx: DataGrid
• Environment: Affected OS(s): Windows; Affected OS(s): Windows XP; Language Found: English
• Assignee: Adobe JIRA
• Reporter: Adobe JIRA
• Created: 29/Apr/07 17:24
• Updated: 13/May/15 14:17
• Resolved: 28/Mar/09 19:33

Description

DataGrid supports XML as a datatype. XML is rarely flat. I would say having a hierarchy is pretty much a given. Yet DataGridColumn's only supports passing in a 'top level' property name via the dataField.

So, given blah as a dataProvider

blah.monkey = 5
blah.test.data = 3

I can display monkey in a column, but not test.data

The party line is 'create a label
function'. That's great for really small situations but sorting, itemEditing, etc. is all impacted. Further, when working on larger projects with a few thousand mxml files, it is hard to propogate that idea throughout.

In flex 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0x I have extended DataGrid/DataGrid Column to resolve this issue. It would be really, really, really great to get an Adobe supported version of this.

Issue Links

• is related to: FLEX-34837 DataGrid sorted with complex dataField doesn't keep track of changes to those fields, leading to RTE when trying to remove selected item