SlickGrid RemoteModel vs. Dataview Model

Question

We are currently using the SlickGrid model slick.remotemodel.js implementation for its remote Ajax download functionality. In this example, the only filtering provided is a simple search item. What we want to accomplish is a much more robust filtering method for each column, for example the one used in this example: http://mleibman.github.com/SlickGrid/examples/example-header-row.html

Is there a way to easily combine the features of the Dataview model with RemoteModel? Is it just a matter of combining Dataview functions into RemoteModel code, or is there a more fundamental match in the functionality of each?

I managed to find the following discussion - this seems like a workaround rather than an integrated solution: Slickgrid filtering without Dataview

Perhaps I just thought about it, any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

DataView does all sorting, grouping / filtering, etc. on the client because it has access to all the data. If you do this on a server, you will have to implement all of this in your server data server-side. There is no prescribed way to do this, since all the backend and needs are different.