EXTJS ReRendering of the Grid with Datastore - extjs

I have a grid made with ExtJS, and I render it to a div that I define, when a refresh is requested I simply "empty" the div using JQuery and then re-render the grid creating new objects each time:
var grid = new xg.GridPanel({
store: store,
columns: [
...
renderTo: 'db-grid'
And then to empty the div I use this:
$("#db-grid").empty();
This works well for like 3 or 4 refreshes, and then it seems to load really slowly, I imagine this is because it re-creates all these objects again, the only thing that changes each time is the "store." I acquire that through an AJAX request, is there a way to refresh this without creating a new grid each time?
I'm pretty new to ExtJS, and I'm making a bit of a transition here from JQuery, which is why I'm using the "empty()" function from JQuery, if you know of a ExtJS alternative, I would be glad to use that instead,
Thanks!

Take a look at Store's load(Object options) and reload(Object options) methods at http://dev.sencha.com/deploy/dev/docs/.
An example of this functionality can be seen in Ext.PagingToolbar. This class contains a button that refreshes a Grid and its Store, without destroying the Grid each time:
// private
doLoad : function(start){
var o = {}, pn = this.getParams();
o[pn.start] = start;
o[pn.limit] = this.pageSize;
if(this.fireEvent('beforechange', this, o) !== false){
this.store.load({params:o}); // here is the call you're interested in
}
},
doLoad() is then simply called from the method doRefresh():
doRefresh : function(){
this.doLoad(this.cursor);
},
I included this code for the sake of a complete example, but really all you need to worry about is the load() or reload() methods. Make sure to read the API to see a full list of arguments that can be passed into the methods.

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https://gijgo.com/tree/demos/bootstrap-treeview-checkbox
Since knockout.js is preferred for the front end development hence its needed to develop a knockout binding for this particular requirement.
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},
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var value = ko.utils.unwrapObservable(valueAccessor());
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Convert the initial data to the format the tree widget understands
Initialize the widget with the correct settings $(element).tree({ /* ... */ })
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Get rendered rows in `treepanel` Ext JS

I need a way to get all rendered rows in a treepanel, but I was not able to find how to achieve it.
I tried the following events:
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treeview#refresh: it gets called later, and view.up('panel').getNodes() successfully returns the rows
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treeview#cellclick: this could almost work together with treeview#refresh, but it does not account for programmatically .expand() a node
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renderer: function (...)
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Ext.define('Mb.Application', {
...
launch: function() {
const body = document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0],
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};
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observer.observe(body, config);
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I don't know if this will help someone, but just in case I share it...

How do I listen to store's refresh event?

I'm using Sencha Touch 2 and wonder how I listen to the Store's refresh event in my Ext.dataview.List? I want that my list automatically updates when there are new records in my store, so the refresh event seems to do the job for me, but how do I set up a listener?
Edit: Thanks to Anand Gupta I realized my problem isn't refreshing the list but just displaying it. So I will give you some more information and hope you can help me. I use NavigationView inside tabpanel. I have one list loading from localstorage which works just fine, if you tap disclose indicator you come to a form with a button "auto complete".
By tapping autocomplete the following method is called:
e.stopEvent();
var lastname = this.getNewUserForm().down("textfield[name=lastname]").getValue();
if(lastname!=="")
{
var complete = this.getApplication().getController("Complete");
this.getUserNav().push(complete.getView());
complete.setSearch(this.getNewUserForm().down("textfield[name=firstname]").getValue(), lastname);
}
else
{
//errormessage
}
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var store = Ext.getStore("Playernames");
store.setParams({firstname:firstname, lastname:lastname});
store.load({callback: function(){
console.log(this);
}});
I added a log to see that the store is properly loaded and store is properly loaded.
Thanks for help
Ok after some more hard search I found my bug: I had a List view embedded in a Panel with an undefined layout. So I changed the layout to "fit" and it works fine.

ExtJS 4 URL is undefined when I try store.load()

I have a Panel with multiple grids. I'm trying to make some kind of global refresh button by which I mean, a button that will refresh all the grids and open tabs, without losing data like when F5 is pressed.
With two of the grids it was easy just get the store and load it but the third one makes a problem. When I try the same as with the previous two which works OK I get URL is undefined.
Here is my code:
reloadInstructionsStore: function() {
var reloadInstructionSt = this.getStore('Instructions');
var activeCat = this.getActiveCategory();
reloadInstructionSt.clearFilter(true);
reloadInstructionSt.filter({
filterFn: function(item) {
return item.get('category_id') == activeCat;
}
}),
reloadInstructionSt.load();
},
The only reason I can think of is that the store that I use here is defined different from the other 2. It's not with PROXY and CRUD, but looks like this:
Ext.define('MY.store.Instructions', {
extend: 'Ext.data.Store',
model: 'MY.model.InstructionRecord',
autoLoad: true,
data: g_settings.instructionsApi.initialData
});
Is the problem here and is there a way to make things work even like this?
Thanks
Leron
You do not need to reload this store, the data is provided on initial page load. The variable g_settings.instructionsApi.initialData tells me that the data is available as static on the page. All you need to do in this case is reset the filter, and just remove the reloadInstructionSt.load(); call.
If you actually do want the data to reload from the server, you will need to give your store a url that it can get the data from and the server will have to be able to serve this data up.

ExtJS 4 : How To Reload Grid With The Same Parameter

I wonder why ExtJS developers decide to remove reload() method in ExtJS 4 Store API. I think it's a bad decision.
Here is my problem. I'm using the following code to initialize a grid's store:
store.load({
params: {
paramName: dynamicParameter
}
});
NOTICE the dynamicParameter variable in the code above.
Then, if I delete some records from the grid, I need to reload the store.
The problem is: the code segment which reload the store should not know the dynamicParameter value.
The code to delete records is like this:
function deleteGridItems(grid, deleteUrl){
// get selected rows
var records = grid.getSelectionModel().getSelection();
// ...... (codes to send request for deletion is ignored) ......
if(success){
grid.getStore().reload();
}
}
Unfortunately, the grid.getStore().reload() above will be an error because in ExtJS 4, reload() function doesn't exist anymore.
So how to reload the store with the same parameter??
Thank you.
If I'm not mistaken load() function now does exactly the same as reload() before. Try it.
you need to set proxy extra params instead specifying it each time on load():
see this http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?127673-Reload-Store-in-EXT-JS-4
Also note that Ext JS doesn't appear to check before loading whether the store is already loading data. I'm not sure why this is, but it can be fixed by overriding the load() method in a Store or TreeStore.
load: function(options) {
// Loading quickly will cause data in the panel to break
if (!this.isLoading()) {
this.callParent(arguments);
}
},
I haven't experienced issues with grids, but with trees if you press the refresh button very quickly you sometimes get an error and the tree structure breaks:
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'internalId' of undefined

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