Re: RequestFactory, Editor Framework, and CellTable

I don't think CellTable's editing abilities are meant to be used with the Editor framework. The Editor framework is based on a Flow Synchronization pattern while CellTable generally directly edits its value. To be able to edit objects in a CellTable "bound" through the Editor framework, you'd have to provide your own EditorSource to a ListEditor (i.e. do not use HasDataEditor, but rather somehow duplicate it) with subeditors for the fields you'll edit (you can use SimpleEditors), and have your CellTable extract its data from those subeditors, and push updates into them too. This would be so that the actual object being edited is only modified when you later flush() your EditorDriver.

This is only in theory though, I haven't tried it.

Note that adding and removing items from the list is a different story, as the list you get from the ListEditor/HasDataEditor is already a "working copy" of the one passed to the editor.

This I experimented with, in two fashions depending on the constraints:

• simply modify the list, as it would be persisted with the whole object being edited (or with a service call passing the edited list as an argument);
• queue add and remove service calls to our RequestContext, that we'll fire later on (after we flush the EditorDriver to persist changes made in other non-list editors)

Because we do not edit the list items' properties, we were able to use the HasDataEditor (with a CellList in our case, but you could use a CellTable equally well)

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