jQGrid subgrid with Single JSON generated by server

Question

I was trying to build a subgrid using jQGrid to show parent child relationship. I followed Manager and Employee relationships. I am building a JSON at server and this is how it looks

{"total":1,"page":1,"records":20,
"rows":[{"id":"Mgr 001","EmpId":"Mgr 001","Manager Name":"Murali","Dept":"D1"
 ,"Employees":[{"EmpId":"Emp 100","Name":"Alex","Dept":"Infrastucture"}]}]

The problem is when i click on expand i am finding the data from locally stored employeeLocalJSON variable and assigning the collection to subgrid. But it was not shown in subgrid. I have no idea why it is so. I want to load json from server and to show subgrid i should use the same, so i stored that one in local variable employeeLocalJSON.

I followed jqgrid subgrids from a single nested json

jqGrid Subgrid with "local" Data

JqGrid with subgrid and single XML file as input

Here is my jQGrid code

$(function() {

var employeeLocalJSON;
jQuery("#list").jqGrid({
    //start
    url: '/Employee/Search',
    datatype: "json",
    postData: {
        searchModel: function () {
            var result = {}, i, item,
             formInfo = $('#search-form').serializeArray(),
             l = formInfo.length;
            for (i = 0; i < l; i++) {
                item = formInfo[i];
                result[item.name] = item.value;
            }
            return JSON.stringify(result);
        }
    },
    mtype: "POST",
    colNames: ['id', 'EmpId', 'Manager Name', 'Dept'],
    colModel: [
    { name: 'id', index: 'id', hidden: true, width: 1, align: 'left', key: true },
    { name: 'EmpId', index: 'EmpId', search: true, width: 260, align: 'left' },
    { name: 'ManagerName', index: 'ManagerName', search: false, width: 110, align: 'left' },
    { name: 'Dept', index: 'Dept', search: true, width: 54, align: 'left' }],
    pager: $("#pager"),
    rowNum: 20,
    rowList: [5, 10, 20, 50],
    sortname: 'EmpId',
    sortorder: "asc",
    viewrecords: true,
    loadonce: true,
    sortable: true,
    jsonReader: {
        repeatitems: false
    },
    loadComplete: function (data) {
        if (data.rows) {
            employeeLocalJSON = data.rows; // save original JSON data
        }
    },
    caption: 'Employee Manager Detail',
    subGrid: true,
    subGridOptions: {
        "plusicon": "ui-icon-triangle-1-e",
        "minusicon": "ui-icon-triangle-1-s",
        "openicon": "ui-icon-arrowreturn-1-e",
        "reloadOnExpand": false,
        "selectOnExpand": true
    },
    subGridRowExpanded: function (grid_id, row_id) {
        //            //start of subgrid row expanded
        var subgrid_table_id, pager_id;
        subgrid_table_id = grid_id + "_tone";
        pager_id = "pone_" + subgrid_table_id;
        $("#" + grid_id).html("<table id='" + subgrid_table_id + "' class='scroll' style='width:100%'></table><div id='" + pager_id + "' class='scroll'></div>");
        var indexes = $(this).jqGrid('getGridParam', '_index');

        var empList = employeeLocalJSON[indexes[row_id]].Employees;

        $("#" + subgrid_table_id).jqGrid({
            datatype: 'local',
            data: empList,
            colNames: ['EmpId', 'Name', 'Dept'],
            colModel: [
                        { name: 'EmpId', width: 170 },
                        { name: 'Name', width: 110 },
                        { name: 'Dept', width: 60 }
                       ],
            sortname: 'EmpId',
            viewrecords: true,
            sortorder: "asc",
            width: 960
        });
    }

    //end
});
//                         });
jQuery("#list").jqGrid('navGrid', '#pager', { add: false, edit: false, del: false });
});

How do i achieve loading sub grid from a single JSON? What could be wrong in my code? I am not able to see the subgrid, even i bound a data

Answer 1

The first important problem which you have is the usage of spaces in id values (see "id":"Mgr 001" in your data). I can suggest you two alternative to fix the problem. The first one will be to change the algorithm how you generate id values. For example you can just remove all spaces from the id if it is possible or replace " " to any other character. Another alternative will be to change the line of jqGrid code

return String(sid).replace(/[!"#$%&'()*+,.\/:;<=>?@\[\\\]\^`{|}~]/g,"\\$&");

to

return String(sid).replace(/[!"#$%&'()* +,.\/:;<=>?@\[\\\]\^`{|}~]/g,"\\$&");

(add space to the list of characters which should be encoded by jqGrid).

To post subgrid information in one response together with the main grid data I suggest you to use userdata part of JSON which will be accessed later as "userData" (case is important !!!) parameter of jqGrid. If you can't do this on the server side you can make the corresponding transformation of the server response inside of beforeProcessing callback. See the answer for the corresponding code example.

UPDATED: I reminded Tony one more time (see here) about the suggestion to escape spaces in the id. Just now (see here) the change is included in the main code of jqGrid. So in the next version (higher as the current 4.4.3) jqGrid will work with ids having spaces.