How can I define a tabview to load the body UI from a json string loaded from the server?
You can use vm template for that. And inside Vm template you can make webix datatable
Thanks! vm template? can you give a sample?
ps it could be any webix component like form, tabview, etc. that i want to load from the server (the UI is dynamically created based on different plugins)
you can write webix code in suppose webix.vm
after that in server side -
import org.apache.velocity.Template;
import org.apache.velocity.app.VelocityEngine;
import org.apache.velocity.context.Context;
import org.apache.velocity.runtime.RuntimeConstants;
import org.apache.velocity.servlet.VelocityServlet;
public class MasterVelocityServlet extends VelocityServlet {
public Template handleRequest( HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response,
Context context ) {
Template template = null;
VelocityEngine ve = new VelocityEngine();
try {
ve.setProperty(RuntimeConstants.RESOURCE_LOADER, "file");
ve.setProperty(RuntimeConstants.FILE_RESOURCE_LOADER_PATH, "path of .vm file");
template = ve.getTemplate("webix.vm");
} catch( Exception e ) {
System.err.println("Exception caught: " + e.getMessage());
}
return template;
}
and after that call MasterVelocityServlet where you want to show the output
ok, but how can i load the result string a component in javascript, see my sample.
you want the datatable here body: {
// load a json datatable definiton from the server???
}
with data from backend
???
I want the data AND definition (columns, etc) and for a form i want the elements returned as json from server
Hello,
With Datatable it’s possible to provide both configuration and data in the serverside url. Server should return:
{
config: {
columns:[..], height:500, //etc
},
data:[...]
}
Please, check the following sample.
For other components you will need to issue an Ajax request before UI initialization:
webix.ajax(url, function(text, data){
webix.ui(/*server response parsed to json*/);
});
If you are speaking about a Webix Jet-based app, please check the related demo on Github , namely its data.js file.
The tabs should be visible directly but after clicking on the tab it should load the content from the server. If I understand it correctly, you can only do that in event “onViewChange”, like in this example… https://webix.com/snippet/d234fbd8
ps. maybe it’s an option to extend the tabview with deferred loading via an url
Nice! This can be applied to every layout?
Please add it to the default webix component set 
This can be applied to every layout?
you need to define custom one (form, layout)
the only disadvantage is impossibility of functions deserialization
Yes, or use something like described here