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Ext JS Application Development Blueprints

You're reading from   Ext JS Application Development Blueprints Develop robust and maintainable projects that exceed client expectations using Ext JS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784395308
Length 340 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. MVC and MVVM 3. Application Structure 4. Sencha Cmd 5. Practical – a CMS Application 6. Practical – Monitoring Dashboard 7. Practical – an E-mail Client 8. Practical – Questionnaire Component 9. A Shopping Application 10. Debugging and Performance 11. Application Testing Index

The data layer


When writing the prototype, I did partially build the data classes that were required, so now let's fully flesh them out:

// packages/wizard/src/model/Questionnaire.js
Ext.define('Wizard.model.Questionnaire', {
    extend: 'Ext.data.Model',
    fields: [
        { name: 'title' },
        { name: 'introduction' },
        { name: 'conclusion' }
    ],
    proxy: {
        type: 'rest',
        url: 'http://localhost:3000/questionnaire'
    },

    toJSON: function() {
        return this.getData(true);
    }
});

Standard stuff here with one exception is that a toJSON method that consumes applications can override in order to obtain JSON in a format they can use for further processing. The default implementation returns the data of the questionnaire object along with its association data. Alternatively, they can override the proxy configuration to save the questionnaire data to their own server.

Let's take a look at the model I used to represent a step in the questionnaire:

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