On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:09 PM, nanotech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Hi,
> I have a search form (in a panel)with various search fields(as text fields)
> on it. User should be able to fill in any number of search parameters  and
> the results are to be displayed in table (with pagenation + sorting
> capablity on columns) in a different panel on the same page under the search
> panel.
>
> I started looking at DataTable. It seems a option that will solve my need.
>
> Looking at the datatable example on
> http://www.wicket-library.com/wicket-examples/repeater/
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> I observed that the following methods get called in the order
>
> 1. size() from CustomSortableDataProvider.
> 2. iterator() from CustomSortableDataProvider
> 3. load() from CustomLoadableDetachableModel.
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> If I understand it correctly:-(Please  correct me if I am wrong)
>  * size() requires , the number of records that provider will be working
> with. So, in above case i'll have to make query thrrough service layer /DAO
> like this  Select count(*) from Employees where  firstName Like 'ABC' and
> lastName Like 'XYZ'
>
> * iterator(final int first, final int count) will call Service layer/DAO to
> do the actual query like this  Select * from Employees where firstName Like
> 'ABC' and lastName Like 'XYZ'
>
> * finally in model ...I will call the CustomLoadableDetachableModel and its
> load() method will load the actual Employee model  for each item that will
> be displayed on first page of the list being rendered in data table.
>
>
> It seems that there are too many queries in case of datatable. If the result
> set has thousands of records and we are displaying 100 per page then it will
> do 100+ queries to render all the items.
>
> Questions:
> 1. Did I sum up about DataTable correctly?

no, there are only two queries per page render of datatable.

> If yes, Won't this be a
> bottleneck considering the number of queries?

> 2. Is there a better way of doing this?

not until someone finds one.

-igor

>
> Thanks,
> RG
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