Usage question and updating data on the fly about sheetrock

[chriszarate]

Sorry for the brief response, I'm traveling.

Sheetrock is designed to have a 1:1 correspondence between DOM elements and queries. This aids with lazy-loading. So when you try to attach a different query, Sheetrock thinks it has already loaded the data.

However, it's relatively easy to "unload" or detach the previous query. You should be able to do something like this:

$('#playerdata').empty().data('sheetrockLoaded', false).sheetrock({...});

I can't test that at the moment, so apologies if the chaining isn't quite right.

In the future, perhaps I could test to see if the query has changed and do this automatically.

[zachwhalen]

Hi Chris,

I've been traveling too, but I had time to try out the method you suggested and it worked. Thanks! I had tried empty(), but that didn't quite do it. I didn't think to chain that all together like your example.

And again, thanks for sheetrock. I'm finding it very useful.

Zach

[chriszarate]

FYI: I've addressed this in version 0.1.7 (just released). I've abandoned the previous 1:1 correspondence between DOM elements and queries, which wasn't really necessary and led to understandable confusion.

I also changed the way Sheetrock stores "flags" or "indicators"—for row offset, errors, and query completion. Previously it used jQuery.data which solidified the aforementioned 1:1 correspondence. Now it keeps track of them internally, indexed by unique query.

The fix we discussed above will continue to work, but the data(...) method is now unnecessary. With the latest version, you can simplify to:

$('#playerdata').empty().sheetrock({...});

Additionally, there's a new option (resetStatus) that allows you to reset the flags/indicators. This is useful if, for example, you'd like to load the exact same query again, reset the row offset, or try again after an error.

[diogosouza]

I had this problem too. Just for other people to know, now we have the option attribute "resetStatus": https://github.com/chriszarate/sheetrock#resetstatus.

I just set it to true and it worked. Thanks, great plugin.. Congrats! 👍