TreePanel store reading different json format (4.0.7)

[maikhorma]

Hi, currently I'm using XStream to convert Java objects into JSON, and it works fine for grids and everything else. The problem with using a treestore is that XStream's format (example 1) doesn't match ExtJs' (example 2) exactly. What is the best way to either tell the treestore how to read the different format, or at least reformat the json data as it comes during load()?

I can get closer if i fudge example 1 by changing the top name to "children" and having the root defined as '["children"]["NodeType"]' but it looks like it breaks when it gets to the final leaf with "Cannot read property 'NodeType' of undefined".

Thoughts?

Example 1: XStreams result, it wants to preface the array with the type of objects it holds, so if i send the data back it knows how to deserialize it.

{
    "data": {
        "NodeType": {
            "text": "1-1",
            "leaf": false,
            "children": {
                "NodeType": [
                    {
                        "text": "1-0",
                        "leaf": false,
                        "children": {
                            "NodeType": [
                                {
                                    "text": "1-0-0",
                                    "leaf": true
                                }
                            ]
                        }
                    }
                ]
            }
        }
    }
} 

Example 2: Works with ExtJs 4

{
    "children": [
        {
            "text": "1-1",
            "leaf": false,
            "children": [ 
                {
                    "text": "1-0",
                    "leaf": false,
                    "children": [
                        {
                            "text": "1-0-0",
                            "leaf": true
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
} 

Thanks in advance.

[mitchellsimoens]

It should place the NodeType key in there.

[maikhorma]

Sorry, you are right, that isn't the exact xstream output, i had been messing with it for a while to see what would work and left it that way for demonstration purposes. Normally it produces "children": "". It does that with null or an empty arraylist as the contents of the attribute. This still causes the same problem though because it would try and access the NodeType object of children which doesn't exist. I tried injecting an empty object to satisfy that, but then it seemed like it failed trying to turn the empty object into children.