YUI Library Examples: DataTable Control (beta): Textual Data Over XHR

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YAHOO.util.Event.addListener(window, "load", function() {
    YAHOO.example.XHR_Text = new function() {
        this.formatUrl = function(elCell, oRecord, oColumn, sData) {
            elCell.innerHTML = "<a href='" + oRecord.getData("Url") + "' target='_blank'>" + sData + "</a>";
        };

var myColumnDefs = [
            {key:"Name", sortable:true, formatter:this.formatUrl},
            {key:"Phone"},
            {key:"City"},
            {key:"Rating", formatter:YAHOO.widget.DataTable.formatNumber, sortable:true}

];

this.myDataSource = new YAHOO.util.DataSource("assets/php/text_proxy.txt?");
        this.myDataSource.responseType = YAHOO.util.DataSource.TYPE_TEXT;
        this.myDataSource.responseSchema = {
            recordDelim: "\n",
            fieldDelim: "|",
            fields: ["Name","Address","City","Phone",{key:"Rating",parser:YAHOO.util.DataSource.parseNumber},"Url"]
        };

this.myDataTable = new YAHOO.widget.DataTable("text", myColumnDefs,
                this.myDataSource, {caption:"Example: Textual Data Over XHR"});

var moreColumnDefs = [
            {key:"Restaurant", sortable:true, formatter:this.formatUrl},
            {key:"Location"},
            {key:"Town"},
            {key:"Stars", formatter:YAHOO.widget.DataTable.formatNumber, sortable:true}
        ];

this.anotherDataSource = new YAHOO.util.DataSource("assets/php/text_with_headers_proxy.txt?");
        this.anotherDataSource.responseType = YAHOO.util.DataSource.TYPE_TEXT;
        this.anotherDataSource.responseSchema = {
            recordDelim: "\n",
            fieldDelim: "|",
            fields: ["Restaurant","Location","Town","Telephone",{key:"Stars",parser:YAHOO.util.DataSource.parseNumber},"Website"]
        };
        // Upgrade note: As of 2.5.0, the second argument is the full type-converted
        // response from the live data, and not the unconverted raw response
        this.anotherDataSource.doBeforeCallback = function(oRequest, oFullResponse, oParsedResponse) {
            // Remove the first result (i.e., the headers);
            oParsedResponse.results.shift();
            return oParsedResponse;
        };

this.anotherDataTable = new YAHOO.widget.DataTable("textWithHeaderData", moreColumnDefs,
                this.anotherDataSource, {caption:"Example: First Record Holds Header Data"});
    };
});

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