Creating an abstract GridPanel for reuse
Now is the time to implement the views. We have to implement five views: one to perform the CRUD operations for Actor, one for Category, one for Language, one for City, and one for Country.
The following screenshot represents the final result we want to achieve after implementing the Actors screen:
And the following screenshot represents the final result we want to achieve after implementing the Categories screen:
Did you notice anything similar between these two screens? Let's take a look again:
The top toolbar is the same (1); there is a Live Search capability (2); there is a filter plugin (4), and the Last Update and widget columns are also common (3). Going a little bit further, both GridPanels can be edited using a cell editor (similar to MS Excel capabilities, where you can edit a single cell by clicking on it). The only things different between these two screens are the columns that are specific to each screen (5). Does this mean we can reuse a...