JQuery Bootgrid rowCount does not work - jquery-bootgrid

Output looks like this----------
Hi,
I am using JQuery bootgrid to display a few hundred records. I am returning a rowCount=10 from server side but its not work and keep showing all the rows.
My source looks like this:
HTML:
<th data-column-id='ItemID' data-type='numeric' data-identifier='true'>ID</th>"+
"<th data-column-id='ItemNumber'>Item Number</th>"+
"<th data-column-id='ItemDescription'>Description</th>"+
"<th data-column-id='ItemStatus'>Status</th>"+
"<th data-column-id='DateReceived'>Received Date</th>"+
"<th data-column-id='ItemNotes' data-formatter='text' data-sortable='false'>Text Description</th>"+
//"<th data-column-id='NoOfItems' data-formatter='select' data-sortable='false'>No. of Items</th>"+
"<th data-column-id='commands' data-formatter='commands' data-sortable='false'>Actions</th>";
Ajax Request:
current "1"
rowCount "10"
searchPhrase ""
Ajax Response:
current 1
rowCount 10
rows [12]
0 Object
1 Object
2 Object
3 Object
4 Object
5 Object
6 Object
7 Object
8 Object
9 Object
10 Object
11 Object
total 12
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks

This confuses many people at first, as it did me.
It's important to remember that pagination is not done by JQ-BG. It's done by the server. JQ-BG only tells the server what page the user is requesting and details like rows per page, search strings, sorted columns, etc. It's up to the server to first filter by the search string (if applicable), sort according to the sorted column, and then do the math about which rows in that result set make up the page that the user is requesting. In the end, the server sends no more than one page's worth of rows. The server also feeds back the total number of pages that are available so that JQ-BG can arrange the tiled page numbers at the bottom for the user to click on.
In the end, this makes sense because no matter the size of the data, it isn't being all sent over the wire in a giant transaction that will, at some point, overwhelm the browser and make the network appear "slow".
But, it does create some challenges, like temporarily storing the filtered, sorted data across ajax requests and doing the pagination within the cached results.

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I have 100 rows of data in DynamoDB and a api with path api/get/{number}
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I am using this to make API call based of pagination on HTML.
I am using java 1.8 and aws-java-sdk-dynamodb.
Non-sequential pagination in DynamoDB is tough - you have to design your data model around it, if it's an operation that needs to be efficient at all times. For a recommendation in your specific case I'd need more details about the data and access patterns.
In general you have the option of setting the ExclusiveStartKey attribute in the query call, which is similar to an offset in relational databases, but only similar and not identical. The ExclusiveStartKey is the key after which the query will continue, meaning data from your table and not just a number.
That means you usually can't guess it, unless it's a sequential number - which isn't ideal.
For sequential pagination, i.e. the user goes from page 1 to page 2, page 2 to page 3 etc. you can pass that along in the request as a token, but that won't work if the user moves in the other direction page 3 to page 2 or just randomly navigates to page 14.
In your case you only have a limited amount of data - 100 items, so my solution for your specific case would be to query all items and limit the amount of items in the response to n * 10, where n is the result page. Then you return the last 10 items from that result to your client.
This is a solution that would get expensive at scale (time + cost) though, fortunately not many people will use the pagination to go to page 7 or 8 though (you could bury a body on page 2 of the google search results).
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I have a requirement where I need to display a long table. It doesn't have to be displayed all at once, so ajax loading it is (load first 50 recs, then get another 50 rows everytime the user scrolls to/past the tenth row from the last).
But I'm not sure which of the two, pagination and infinite scrolling, is better. I'd like the user to be able to skip to the last scrolled-to point when returning to the page (through Back button, definitely; if I can do that whenever, however user visits the page, even better!) with the previous rows visible as well. At the same time, for performance, I want to restrict the number of ajax calls to as low as I can keep it.
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For Ex- 'www.abc.com/v1/tableData/pageId=1&noOfRecords=50'
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When you scroll down, increase the pageId with +1
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When my android frontend starts up, it loads the first 5 items by
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My android frontend also keeps track of the page it is on and
increments it when the user wants to see more items.
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When I swipe up to fetch the next 5 items, it calls the
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will load the
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the database.
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14
13
12
11
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10
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10
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8
7
6
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Does anyone know how one can solve this issue so that when I swipe up, the items would be:
15
14
13
12
11
// the above would be the new items added
10
9
8
7
6
5
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tl;dr
That's the nature of the beast. Pagination in Spring Data is defined as retrieving a part of the result set at the time of querying. Especially for remote communication, that kind of statelessness is usually the best tradeoff between keeping state, keeping connections open, scalability etc.
Details
The only way to avoid this would be to capture the state of the database at the time of the first access and only work on that. You can actually build this by retrieving all items and page through the data locally.
Of course hardly anyone does this as it easily gets out of hand for larger data volumes. Also, this would bring up other problems like: when do you actually want to see the items introduced in the meantime? So the definition of "correct content" when paginating a list is not distinct.
Mitigation strategies
If applicable to your scenario you could try to apply a sorting that guarantees new items to be added at the very end and thus basically making this an append-only list. This would naturally sort the most recent items last though, which is contrary to what's needed often times.
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I am using ASP/VB Script in my project but, i don't have much idea of Pagination in Classic ASP. I have designed a datagrid format using tables and looping. That table is filled by accessing database. As we have a huge amount of data to display, we need pagination.
Thanks in advance
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In the client:
Ajax style pagination (You can use a jQuery plugin like SlickGrid)
Linked pagination: Your page have links to page 1, page 2, etc.
Infite scrolling: This is a modern way to do pagination, with more results added to the page via ajax
In the server
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Full DB retrieve but caching the result so subsequent page request come from the cache, not the DB
Ask the DB only the page asked (Different techniques depending on the DB engine)
There is a issue you need to be aware of... the built-in ASP record set will allow pagiing, however is not very efficient. The entire result set gets returned to the browser and then it locates the appropriate page and displays that data.
Think of it like this... your result set is a 4 shelf book case. When you ask for page one all 4 shelves of books get returned. The the display code says "Okay now only show page 1". If you then ask for page two... All four shelves of books gets returned and then the display code says "Okay give me page 4".
So, you should look for a paging solution that takes place on the server, inside the database. This way if you ask for page 15 of a 50 page result, the database will only return one shelf of books.
This google query should put you on the right track.
Edit: How SQL Paging Works
You must us a stored procedure
One of the input parameters is the page to view
The stored procedure filters the results on the server
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Step 1:
Create a temp table that stores the entire result set. My preference is to store only two values in this temp table. An identity seed value called RowId and the primary key of the result data. (I'm one of those people that believes in non-sensical identity seed keys)
Step 2:
Insert all the PKey values from the select statement into the temp table
Step 3:
Determine the StartRowId and EndRowId based on the input page parameter.
Step 4:
Select from the temp table using an inner join to the datatable on the PKey. In the where clause limit the result so the RowId (of the temp table) is between StartRowId and EndRowId. Make sure to Order By the RowId.
Set page size
recordset.PageSize = 100 ' number of records per page
Set the current page
recordset.AbsolutePage = nPage ' nPage being the page you want to jump to.
Other useful bits:
recordset.RecordCount ' number of records returned
recordset.PageCount ' number of pages based on PageSize and RecordCount
That's the basic info. You'll still need to loop through the appropriate number of records, and check the page number as it is passed back to the page.

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