feature - support Editors & Filters with Async Collections

I’m submitting a feature request

Current behavior: Since this is currently not available, user need to resolve collections before creating the grid

Expected/desired behavior:

• What is the expected behavior? Simply pass an http Promise to an async collection property and let it do it’s job

• What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior? Make it simpler to load asynchronously a collection and provide it to filter/editor without delaying the grid creation.

TODO

• Proof of Concept
• Add a JSON file to simulate real HttpClient call for collectionAsync
• Cleanup the code in MultipleSelectFilter
• Extract duplicate functions/code in MultipleSelectFilter, SingleSelectFilter & SelectFilter and create a shared utility file or class
• implement the same changes to the Editors MultipleSelectEditor, SingleSelectEditor
• update Editor Wiki & Filter Wiki

[jmzagorski]

@ghiscoding thanks for pointing that out to me. I have been so busy the last few weeks I would have definitely missed that. i am glad there is not jmzargorski github user or else they would have received the kudos instead lol 😄

[ghiscoding]

Some quick research about what you said, I just found this jsfiddle and the person uses the metadata to change the editor

data.getItemMetadata=function(row) {    
        var rowData = data[row]
        //console.log(rowData)
        var metaData = {columns:{other: {}}}
        metaData.columns.other.editor = Slick.Editors[rowData.type]         
        return metaData
}

in this example, other is a column name.

So will have to check if it works with setColumns and/or the metadata