Dynamic Autosuggest Combobox in GXT - combobox

Question

Over the past 5 months we have been prototyping GWT and setting up the infrastructure. WE are using GXT for the widgets with MVP and Command Pattern implementations. However, we are currently looking to do a spike on a ComboBox with autosuggest from a live Database. I would like to do this in the framework of the MVP and Command pattern implementations. Any one out there have any ideas how to go about doing this?

Answer 1

I solved that using a generic DispatchDataProxy modelled over the Command Pattern. Thanks for the link, but GXT documentation leaves a lot to be desired, though the framework is really nice and cool.
I will post the code here `public class DispatchDataProxy implements DataProxy> {
#Inject
private DispatchAsync dispatch ;//= new StandardDispatchAsync(new DefaultExceptionHandler());
#Override
public void load(DataReader<ListLoadResult<X>> reader, Object loadConfig, final AsyncCallback<ListLoadResult<X>> callback) {
if (loadConfig instanceof BasePagingLoadConfig) {
BasePagingLoadConfig a = (BasePagingLoadConfig) loadConfig;
Map<String, Object> map = a.getProperties();
Object data = map.get("query");
XCommand action = new XCommand();
action.setX((String) data);
dispatch.execute(action, new AsyncCallback<XResult>() {
#Override
public void onFailure(Throwable arg0) {
//Log.debug("Some error:" + arg0.getMessage());
callback.onFailure(arg0);
}
#Override
public void onSuccess(XResult arg0) {
ListLoadResult<X> list = arg0.getList();
callback.onSuccess(list);
}
});
}
}
public DispatchAsync getDispatch() {
return dispatch;
}
public void setDispatch(DispatchAsync dispatch) {
this.dispatch = dispatch;
}
}`
Hope its useful. Will appreciate some comments as well

Answer 2

Have you looked here?
http://www.sencha.com/examples-2/explorer.html#advancedcombobox
They show something similar. The issue with GXT is you are better off using their DataProxy because you need to set a ModelData instance.

Answer 3

I found solution for simple combo box, override getValue method:
public SimpleComboBox<String> createEditableSimpleComboBox() {
return new SimpleComboBox<String>() {
#Override
public SimpleComboValue<String> getValue() {
SimpleComboValue<String> v = super.getValue();
String raw = getRawValue();
if ((v == null || v.getValue() == null) && raw != null && !raw.isEmpty()) {
v = new SimpleComboValue<String>(raw){
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
};
}
return v;
}
};
}
Now when you add to combo box default value (not defined in store) method getValue returns this value - not null.