Upgrade from 3.6.4 to 3.6.5

You should read this upgrade notes when you use JSON response from the server.

With version 3.6.5 we switch from ajax complete to ajax success event.
With this switch we directly use the jQuery parsing of JSON data. As of version 1.4.x of jQuery this parsing is strict. More information can be found here
This will reflect in certain systems not to display the data.

What you need to know if the data is not displayed when you upgrade from 3.6.4 to 3.6.5 version

Valid JSON response

Your json response should be correct json formatted string. This mean that if your response look like this:

{ 
  total: "xxx", 
  page: "yyy", 
  records: "zzz",
  rows : [
    {id:"1", cell:["cell11", "cell12", "cell13"]},
    {id:"2", cell:["cell21", "cell22", "cell23"]},
      ...
  ]
}

This will not work.

In order to display the data in the grid, you should properly define the json response - i.e

{ 
  "total": "xxx", 
  "page": "yyy", 
  "records": "zzz",
  "rows" : [
    {"id" :"1", "cell":["cell11", "cell12", "cell13"]},
    {"id" :"2", "cell":["cell21", "cell22", "cell23"]},
      ...
  ]
}

As can be seen every property should be quoted.

The "d" Property

Switching from ajax complete to ajax success event causes to skip the jqGrid parse function, which detect automatically the so named “d” property from the response (used in certain systems).

In order to solve the problem the jsonReader should be changed so that it can interpret this property correct.
If the default jsonReader is :

jQuery("#gridid").jqGrid({
...
   jsonReader : {
     root: "rows",
     page: "page",
     total: "total",
     records: "records",
     repeatitems: true,
     cell: "cell",
     id: "id",
     userdata: "userdata",
     subgrid: {root:"rows", 
        repeatitems: true, 
       cell:"cell"
     }
   },
...
});

It should be changed to

jQuery("#gridid").jqGrid({
...
   jsonReader : {
     root: "d.rows",
     page: "d.page",
     total: "d.total",
     records: "d.records",
     repeatitems: true,
     cell: "cell",
     id: "id",
     userdata: "userdata",
     subgrid: {root:"d.rows", 
        repeatitems: true, 
       cell:"cell"
     }
   },
...
});