How to create Grid in sencha touch 2.3.0 populate data from a REST webservice - extjs

Question

I need to display report in Grid / Table in Sencha Touch 2.3.0. Is there any build in function to do so.
The store needs to populate data from a REST webservice call.

Answer 1

For loading data you can use Ext.data.Store configured with REST proxy Ext.data.proxy.Rest
For displaying data from store you can use Ext.grid.Grid of Ext.dataview.DataView

Answer 2

I do this all the time with something like this:
(Though I haven't worked with the Grid, I'm quite sure the same principles apply...)
Ext.define('App.controller.GridController', {
extend : 'Ext.app.Controller',
config: {
refs: {
getApiButton: 'button[action=getApiData]'
},
control: {
'getApiButton' : {
tap : 'onButtonTap'
}
}
},
onButtonTap : function(field, value) {
var that = this;
Ext.Ajax.request({
url : someWebServiceUrl,
method: 'GET',
success: function (result, request) {
var res = Ext.decode(result.responseText);
if (res.success === true && res.data != false) {
var recipient = {
name: res.data[0].displayname,
picId: res.data[0].pictureid,
gender: res.data[0].gender
};
var mod = Ext.define('App.model.GradingPopModel', {
extend: 'Ext.data.Model',
config: {
fields: [
'name',
'picId',
'gender'
]
}
});
/* == this is probably where you want to make your changes to apply the model to the grid template
the sencha website has this:
data: {'items': [
{ 'name': 'Lisa', "email":"lisa#simpsons.com", "phone":"555-111-1224" },
{ 'name': 'Bart', "email":"bart#simpsons.com", "phone":"555-222-1234" },
{ 'name': 'Homer', "email":"home#simpsons.com", "phone":"555-222-1244" },
{ 'name': 'Marge', "email":"marge#simpsons.com", "phone":"555-222-1254" }
]}
*/
var store = Ext.create('Ext.data.Store', {
model: mod,
storeId:'recipStore'
});
store.add(recipient);
store.setData(recipient);
store.load();
var gridView = Ext.ComponentQuery.query('#gridViewId')[0];
gridView.setStore(store);
}
},
failure: function (result, request) {
console.log('api call was a failure');
},
scope: this
});
}
});
Now of course your data won't have "displayname, gender" etc.. but you should get the point.
I also found a working example here (I find it very sad that Sencha allows broken demos on their own website): http://demo.rasc.ch/eds/touch23/grid/grid/index.html