Hi there, we are developing paginated repeater for Cocoon. The cocoon repeaters uses JXPath in their binding so that they can work on beans and XML documents.
The goal for us is to display a very long list of elements from a collection not fetching the entire content of the collection. This is expecially useful when the collection is backed by a persistence layer like hibernate or similar, and you have a very big rowset (we are testing on an application with a list with 11000 elements in it). Now, one key element for every pagination system is to retrieve the total amount of items in the list. We tried to accomplish this with a count(pathToList). Actually we have a bean having a getList method returning a java.util.List instance, so we try count(list/*) , count(list), count(list/something), and we would expect JXPath to call getList().size(). This is quite critical, because the list implementation knows how to retrieve the number of rows without actually fetching all the rows from the underlying dataset. Unfortunately, what hapens is different. The CoreFunction.functionCount() method does not recognize it as a Collection, but as a EvalContext instead, and iterates on all the lines to count the items (actually is the EvalContext.hasNext() method that iterates on the entire collection). What's strange is that there is a check in CoreFunction.functionCount() to see if a Collection is in place and eventually call the Collection.size() method, but this seems like it's never happening. Could you please help us? Is it a JXPath bug or are we completely missing something? TIA, regards, Simone Gianni, Matthias Epheser --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
