cgb-gwt/smartclient-node

smartclient-node

Server side implementation for SmartClient

Installation instructions

• Create empty directory
• Initialize package.json with npm init
• Add smartclient-node to your Node.js project.

npm install -S smartclient-node

Installation process will ask following questions - accept defaults:

Destination directory [/home/user/smartclient-test/]:
Download SmartClient evaluation runtime (WARN: overwrites existing web/isomorphic directory)? [yes]:
Install sample (WARN: overwrites existing index.html file)? [yes]:

Downloading SmartClient runtime takes some time - be patient.

Instalation process can be repeated by running installed script ./node_modules/.bin/smartclient-install

Starting server

./node_modules/.bin/smartclient-server

Configuration

Installation process creates configuration file conf/config.properties. Update this file with your values. Server should be restarted for changes to take effect.

Current status

• Supports RPC calls without method arguments
  • Transactions (per request)
• Supports SQL data sources for MySQL and PostgreSQL
  • CRUD operations
  • Transactions (per request)
  • Paging
  • Sorting
  • Simple filtering
  • Filtering with Advanced criteria
• Supports JSON data source: data is stored in file in JSON format
  • CRUD operations
  • always returns whole dataset
  • client side sorting
  • client side filtering

TODO

• Add data source for MongoDB