internal package Foswiki::Plugins::JQDataTablesPlugin::Connector 
base class for grid connectors used to feed a jqGrid widget
  ClassMethod restHandleSave($request, $response) 
this is called by the gridconnector REST handler based on the "oper"
url parameter as provided by the GRID widget.
  ClassMethod buildQuery($request) → $string 
creates a query based on the current request
  ClassMethod convertResult( %params ) → \%rows 
convert a result to a rows for datatable.
params:
 
-  fields: list of fields to extract
  -  result: result object (e.g. a solr document)
  -  index: row number of the result being rendered
  -  formDef (optional): form definition of all items in the result set
 
 
  ClassMethod getValueOfResult( $doc, $property, $fieldDef ) → $value 
get a property of a result document
  ClassMethod search( %params ) → ($total, $totalFiltered, $data) 
perform the actual search and fetch result 
  ClassMethod restHandleSearch($request, $response) 
this is called by the connector REST handler based on the "oper"
url parameter as provided by the Datatables widget.
describe the kind of data for a column as available in the store. this returns
a description has 
{
  type => "date|user|topic|formfield|default|image|icon|email|index|score|number", 
  data => "...", # access to the raw data
  search => "...", # data that is being searched for
  sort => "...", # data in a sortable fashion
}
  ClassMethod getColumnsFromRequest( $request ) → @cols 
read the request params and collect the column descriptions as
transmitted by the Datatables client
  ClassMethod translate($string, $web, $topic) → $string 
translate string to user's current language
  StaticMethod urlDecode( $text ) → $text 
from Fowiki.pm
  ClassMethod isValueMapped( $fieldDef ) → $boolean 
should be in 
FieldDefinition
  ClassMethod isProtected( $colname ) → $boolean 
returns true if the column is supposed to be be protected