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Creating a custom Column using composition instead of inheritance?

See original GitHub issue

Are there any plans to support using composition of Column in Table? Seems like Table is very strict about children types seen here.

I ask because it seems like composition is preferred over inheritance in React… I want to create custom column components and right now I find myself having to extend Column instead of React.Component.

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Created 6 years ago
Comments:6 (1 by maintainers)

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rmehlingercommented, Apr 11, 2019

Personally I think table should be changed to allow custom column components. React specifically discourages the use of inheritance, and anyway you can’t use it with functional components, which is the direction things are heading. One option might be to search descendants of children components and ensure that all leaves are Columns?

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bvaughncommented, Dec 17, 2017

I think we talked about this out of band (maybe over Slack?) I can’t recall. Anyway, I don’t think this is necessary.

You can extend Column, use a cellRenderer, or a shared factory method that creates pre-configured Column instances for you. 👍