DirectStore confusion

[Lloyd K]

I'm trying out DirectStore today and I'm confused. I have my Store requesting and returning just fine, however it returns this:

{"type":"rpc","tid":2,"action":"Session","method":"getLanguages","result":"{\"count\":1,\"list\":[{\"lang_id\":\"en_GB\",\"lang_name\":\"English\"}]}"}

My problem is, how do I tell a ComboBox to use this for its store?
The store is defined as:

store: new Ext.data.DirectStore({
                    autoLoad: true,
                    directFn: Session.getLanguages,
                    paramsAsHash: false,
                    idProperty: 'lang_id',
                    fields: [
                        {name: "lang_id", type: "string"},
                        {name: "lang_name", type: "string"}
                    ],
                    sortInfo: {
                        field: "lang_name",
                        direction: "ASC"
                    }
                }),

Interestingly result is infact a string and not proper JSON, perhaps it's down to the .NET stack that's been done?

[aconran]

Looks like the result is getting double encoded. You should be returning your object directly from the language of your choice (.NET) rather than encoding it yourself. Also taking a look at the above code, it looks like you forgot to set root: 'list' in your store config.

[Lloyd K]

Yeh I set root soon after. I'm not encoding it I'm simply creating JObject like in the example but it seems it is getting double encoded :/

[evant]

Under the hood it's using JSON.NET, so it depends on what type you're returning.

[Lloyd K]

I'm not at work so a bit of a pain to explain, but its like in the example:

        [DirectMethodForm]
        public string SaveForm(HttpRequest request)
        {
            int age = 0;
            int.TryParse(request["age"], out age);
            JObject o = new JObject(
                new JProperty("firstName", request["firstName"]),
                new JProperty("lastName", request["lastName"]),
                new JProperty("age", age));
            return o.ToString(Newtonsoft.Json.Formatting.None);
        }

The only difference is I'm using DirectMethod and not DirectMethodForm.

[galdaka]

Same problem!!

Greetings,

[randomY]

I struggled with this too, finally gave up. Never got it to load with a JsonReader. Did get it to load by returning an array of arrays and using an ArrayReader.

105                   store: new Ext.data.DirectStore({
106                      directFn:      ProjectSequence.listsequences,
107                      paramsAsHash:  false,
108                      autoDestroy:   true,
109                      mode:          'remote',
110                      writer:        new Ext.data.JsonWriter({encode: false}),
111                      reader:        new Ext.data.ArrayReader({fields: ['sequence']}),
112                      paramOrder:    ['query']
113                   })

loads with ArrayReader:

{
  "type":"rpc",
  "tid":9,
  "action":"ProjectSequence",
  "method":"listsequences",
  "result":[
    ["2009106"],
    ["2009107"],
    ["2009108"]
  ]
}

wouldn't load with JsonReader:

{
  "type":"rpc",
  "tid":9,
  "action":"ProjectSequence",
  "method":"listsequences",
  "result":[
    {"project":"2009106"},
    {"project":"2009107"},
    {"project":"2009108"}
  ]
}

[crp_spaeth]

For this Situation my implementation of the Direct ServerStack has an Attribute parameter called "Outputhandling" which you can set to "JSON" to disable central json serialization... Maybe this could make it into the official Extjs serverstack to avoid those traps...

[Lloyd K]

I'll check it out, that's what I'm looking for, direct JSON output with no magic inbetween