mbest/knockout-table

Table binding plugin for Knockout

knockout-table's Issues

support templates of some sort

...for both headings and data items. This addition shouldn't slow down the binding or make it difficult to use.

Ideas:

1. Allow the header and data functions to return html instead of text. Those functions can then be used for basic templating. If the user accesses an observable in the function, they can wrap the whole thing in a computed observable and return that.
2. Support an inline or named template that follows a specific format. This would use the Knockout templating system only to read the template. The rendering would be handled directly by the table binding (for speed).
3. Use sub-classing to support templating. The user would create a new binding based on table that would implement functions for generating the header and data values.

How does this compare to knockout-repeat in terms of performance and usability?

I'm working on an enhanced grid (similar to https://github.com/Knockout-Contrib/KoGrid) that may require several thousand rows to be rendered. The grid has many features like inline-editing, column resizing, row-level actions, etc. Initially I began with nested foreach looks to generate the rows/columns knowing it would eventually become a bottleneck.

I'm at the point where I would like to improve this approach. I've thought about rendering the grid in memory much like this plugin does but I'm worried about the level of control I can get on the individual nodes and bindings.

My research brought me to your 2 plugins, knockout-table and knockout-repeat. I've looked at the source of each and I understand their differences. My main question however is how do they compare to each other in terms of performance and usability?

The knockout-table should be faster in theory but is it worth the maintenance cost?

changes to options

rows and data changes:

data can either be a function (similar to now) or an array or object that stores the data. If it's a function, the first parameter is the row index instead of the row array or object (that it is now). If it's an array or object, it's used just like rows is used now. data is required.

rows can be either a number or an array of strings used as indexes of the rows (just like the columns option). rows is optional ifdata` is an array.

columns changes:

columns can be optional if data is an array of arrays. In that case, the number of columns will be the length of the longest row array in data.

In keeping with knockout, can I modify the data table and have the change reflected in the table?

Hi,
You plugin looks very impressive, I just came across it on knockout's forum.
I see that, given a data table, it will generate an html table.

However, do I have the ability to modify the data table and have the change reflected in the html table? Can I use some sort of filtered table? Can I manually trigger an update?

Thanks