/*
* Dynamic Filtering Table
*/

// Creates the FilteringTable widget and ties it to an existing HTML Table.
// Call once on load.

function doCreateFilteringTable(view) {
// debugger;
dojo.io.bind({
url: "/get_columns?view="+view,
load: handleCreateFilteringTable,
error: handleError,
timeout: handleTimeout,
mimetype: "application/json"
});
}

// Populates the FilteringTable widget with live data.
// Call whenever you want.

function doUpdateFilteringTable(view) {
// debugger;
var url;
url="/get_rows?view="+view;

dojo.io.bind({
url: url,
load: handleUpdateFilteringTable,
error: handleError,
timeout: handleTimeout,
mimetype: "application/json"
});
}

function handleCreateFilteringTable(type,data,evt) {
var e;

// debugger;

try {

var table_id="tbl_"+data.view;
var widget_id=table_id; // they don't need to be the same

var table;
table=dojo.widget.createWidget(
"dojo:FilteringTable",
{
// this provides unique id for table rows
valueField:"id",

// must provide this so that we can find it again,
// otherwise random id is generated
widgetId: "tbl_"+data.view,

},
dojo.byId(table_id)
);

// add the columns
for (x in data.columns)
{
var col=data.columns[x];
table.columns.push(table.createMetaData(col));
}

// set the initial data set to be empty
table.store.setData([]);

// fetch the data
doUpdateFilteringTable(data.view);
} catch (e) {
var errstr=e.name+": "+e.message;
doLog(errstr,"error");
}
}

function handleUpdateFilteringTable(type,data,evt) {
// debugger;

var e;

/* get list of tickers and build table from them */
try {
var view=data.view;

// fill in table body
var tabledata=[];
var table;
var id;
var entry;
var x;
var col;

table=dojo.widget.byId("tbl_"+view);
for (id in data.list)
{
// construct line
var line={};
entry=data.list[id];

for (x in entry)
{
// add one cell
// This is the format expected by dojo:filteringTable
var value;
col=entry[x];
line["id"]=id;
line[col["heading"]]=col["value"]
}

// now add the row
tabledata.push(line);
}

table.store.setData(tabledata);
} catch (e) {
var errstr=e.name+": "+e.message;
doLog(errstr,"error");
}
}

In this example, the server is returning this for get_columns():

{
"columns": [
{"dataType": "String", "field": "Column1"},
{"dataType": "String", "field": "Column2"},
{"dataType": "String", "field": "Column3"},
etc...
],
other stuff...
}

and get_rows() returns this from the server:

{
"list": {
"id1": [
{"heading": "Column1", "value": 25},
{"heading": "Column2", "value": "ABC.L"},
{"heading": "Column3", "value": 395}
],
"id2": [
{"heading": "Column1", "value": 57},
{"heading": "Column2", "value": "MFXYZ.L"},
{"heading": "Column3", "value": 42}
]
}
}

(I've removed non-relevant stuff from these responses for clarity.)