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Manipulating Spry Datasets in the DOM
May 1st
I recently created a little peice of functionality using Spry data to setup two lists that can swap data on the fly,
without the need for any postbacks to the server. I've done this thing several times before, but in the past, I've done it very inefficiently. Let me give you an example.
Let's say I'm building a list of songs to put on my mp3 player. I start with a list of all the songs from my media library, as well as a blank list that's waiting to be filled up with songs for the play list. In the past, what I've done is create two Spry data connections to a database, one to manage the play list, and one to manage the full list of songs.
Of course, this is easy enough to do, but I wanted to make it a bit better. For example, when selecting a song, I wanted to be able to show that the song was selected (and also make it un-selectable again).
My past approach would have been to start with an onclick event to handle the data saving. Once this process was complete, I would have fired a complete reload of both my More >