jQuery Grid Plugin - jqGrid

Yes, I agree that a common solution would be great

The challenge has been the timing of "trapping" of the row change.  I have been using the onSelectRow event to compare the row id's and retrieve the contents of the *last* selected row and update the database on the server.  The code I call looks like this:

function saveGridRecord(gridName,lastRec,editURL){
var savedRowData;
// Theoretically the saved row data should be available, get it.

         var mySavedRow = $(gridName).getGridParam('savedRow');
        var rownumsaved = mySavedRow.length - 1;
        if(rownumsaved >=0)
            var rowData = mySavedRow[rownumsaved];
   
        if(rowData)
            savedRowData = rowToString(rowData);

        $(gridName).saveRow(lastRec,saveRowCheck,editURL,{'extras':savedRowData});
       
}

The work is in formatting the data so it can be compared easily and right now I pass it to the server in the "extras" parameter to compare and *then* update the database if there is a change.  If jqgrid already had the 'before' and 'after' data formatted the same then I could do a quick compare in javascript and only make the roundtrip to the server if it has changed. In fact, if the event raised was onRowChange, I wouldn't have to do the compare on the rows at all, jqGrid would do the compare and only raise the event if the data changed.  That saves a great deal of work for me.  If there is a change, raise the event with the before and after snapshots and then let me handle the details on what to do with the differences.

Thanks for thinking about doing this.  It would be a great help and make my code much more efficient.  I'll be happy to test, prototype, document or do whatever you need to make this happen.

Pete