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SAPUI5 create JSON for TreeTable / empty rows


I want to create a SAPUI TreeTable from a JSON request, currently my output looks like this (as you can see, every node contains an empty row -> I do not know where this is coming from and I do not want to have these empty rows):

emptyRows

My Table definition:

//Create an instance of the table control
var oTreeTable = new sap.ui.table.TreeTable({
    columns: [
        new sap.ui.table.Column({
                label : new sap.ui.commons.Label({
                text : "",
            }),
            template : 
                new sap.ui.commons.TextView({
                text : "{Title}",
                textAlign : sap.ui.core.TextAlign.Begin,
            }),     
        }),
        //new sap.ui.table.Column({label: "Mon01", template: "Mon01"}),
        //new sap.ui.table.Column({label: "Mon02", template: "Mon02"}),
        //new sap.ui.table.Column({label: "Mon03", template: "Mon03"}),
        //new sap.ui.table.Column({label: "Mon04", template: "Mon04"}),
    ],
    selectionMode: sap.ui.table.SelectionMode.None,
    enableColumnReordering: false,
    expandFirstLevel: false,
    toggleOpenState: function(oEvent) {

    }
});

My getJSON and convert flat structure to parent/child structure (thanks to yaku)

    $.getJSON(sServiceUrl, function (data) {

        // flatten to object with string keys that can be easily referenced later
        var flat = {};
        for (var i = 0; i < data.d.results.length; i++) {
          var key = 'id' + data.d.results[i].ID;
          flat[key] = data.d.results[i];
        }

        // add child container array to each node
        for (var i in flat) {
          flat[i].children = []; // add children container
        }

        // populate the child container arrays
        for (var i in flat) {
          var parentkey = 'id' + flat[i].ParentId;
          if (flat[parentkey]) {
            flat[parentkey].children.push(flat[i]);
          }
        }

        // find the root nodes (no parent found) and create the hierarchy tree from them
        var root = [];
        for (var i in flat) {
          var parentkey = 'id' + flat[i].ParentId;
          if (!flat[parentkey]) {
              root.push(flat[i]);
          }
        }

        // here it is!          
        // console.log(root);    

        // to access the JSON via "/root" in bindRows(), could this be a problem?? 
        var data = {
                root  :  root,  
        };

        console.log(data);

        var oTreeModel = new sap.ui.model.json.JSONModel();
        oTreeModel.setData(data);
        oTreeTable.setModel(oTreeModel);
        oTreeTable.bindRows({
            path : '/root',
        });

My Result JSON (a part of it): where I can not find why there are empty rows shown ?? Anybody knows something?

JSON object

Thanks!

Edit: this is my complete JSON result (var root) (BEFORE I move it to var data = { root : root, }; which is bound to the tree table via bindRows(/root).. )

{
  "d" : {
    "results" : [
      {
        "__metadata" : {
          "id" : "http://url/EntitySet('00000001')",
          "uri" : "http://url/EntitySet('00000001')",
          "type" : " NAMESPACE_SRV.Entity"
        },
        "Mon04" : "",
        "Mon03" : "",
        "Mon02" : "09/2014",
        "Mon01" : "08/2014",
        "Title" : "Parent 1",
        "ID" : "00000001",
        "ParentId" : "",
        "ChildId" : "",
      },
      {
        "__metadata" : {
          "id" : "http://url/EntitySet('00000002')",
          "uri" : "http://url/EntitySet('00000002')",
          "type" : "NAMESPACE_SRV.Entity"
        },
        "Mon04" : "",
        "Mon03" : "",
        "Mon02" : "1560",
        "Mon01" : "1550",
        "Title" : "Parent 2",
        "ID" : "00000002",
        "ParentId" : "",
        "ChildId" : "",
      },
      {
        "__metadata" : {
          "id" : "http://url/EntitySet('00000003')",
          "uri" : "http://url/EntitySet('00000003')",
          "type" : "NAMESPACE_SRV.Entity"
        },
        "Mon04" : "",
        "Mon03" : "",
        "Mon02" : "1860",
        "Mon01" : "1750",
        "Title" : "Child 1",
        "ID" : "00000003",
        "ParentId" : "00000002",
        "ChildId" : "00000001",
      },
      {
        "__metadata" : {
          "id" : "http://url/EntitySet('00000004')",
          "uri" : "http://url/EntitySet('00000004')",
          "type" : "NAMESPACE_SRV.Entity"
        },
        "Mon04" : "",
        "Mon03" : "",
        "Mon02" : "1860",
        "Mon01" : "1750",
        "Title" : "Child 1_1",
        "ID" : "00000004",
        "ParentId" : "00000003",
        "ChildId" : "00000001",
      },
      {
        "__metadata" : {
          "id" : "http://url/EntitySet('00000005')",
          "uri" : "http://url/EntitySet('00000005')",
          "type" : "NAMESPACE_SRV.Entity"
        },
        "Mon04" : "",
        "Mon03" : "",
        "Mon02" : "2060",
        "Mon01" : "1950",
        "Title" : "Child 2",
        "ID" : "00000005",
        "ParentId" : "00000002",
        "ChildId" : "00000001",
      },
      {
        "__metadata" : {
          "id" : "http://url/EntitySet('00000006')",
          "uri" : "http://url/EntitySet('00000006')",
          "type" : "NAMESPACE_SRV.Entity"
        },
        "Mon04" : "",
        "Mon03" : "",
        "Mon02" : "2060",
        "Mon01" : "1950",
        "Title" : "Child 3",
        "ID" : "00000006",
        "ParentId" : "00000002",
        "ChildId" : "00000001",
      }
    ]
  }
}

During trying to remove the bullet points I found that they are included in HTML, but I dont know why. If I remove this via dev-tools, the bullet point is gone...

bullet points

which comes from CSS icon class...

.sapUiTableTreeIconLeaf { background-image: url(ico12_leaf.gif); }

solved it via

.sapUiTableTreeIconLeaf { background-image: none !important; }


Solution

  • just get rid of the __metadata, set flat[key].__metadata = "" , i guess TreeTable renderer must take it for another child.

    // flatten to object with string keys that can be easily referenced later
    var flat = {};
    for (var i = 0; i < data.d.results.length; i++) {
        var key = 'id' + data.d.results[i].ID;
        flat[key] = data.d.results[i];
        flat[key].__metadata = "";
    }
    

    Updated Code Snippet:

        
        sap.ui.jsview("test.view", {
            getControllerName: function() {
                return "test.controller";
            },
            createContent: function(oController) {
                var oTreeTable = new sap.ui.table.TreeTable({
                    columns: [
                        new sap.ui.table.Column({
                            label: "Title",
                            template: "Title"
                        }),
                        new sap.ui.table.Column({
                            label: "Mon01",
                            template: "Mon01"
                        }),
                        new sap.ui.table.Column({
                            label: "Mon02",
                            template: "Mon02"
                        }),
                        new sap.ui.table.Column({
                            label: "Mon03",
                            template: "Mon03"
                        }),
                        new sap.ui.table.Column({
                            label: "Mon04",
                            template: "Mon04"
                        }),
                    ],
                    selectionMode: sap.ui.table.SelectionMode.None,
                    enableColumnReordering: false,
                    expandFirstLevel: false,
                    toggleOpenState: function(oEvent) {
    
                    }
                });
    
                var data = {
                    "d": {
                        "results": [{
                            "__metadata": {
                                "id": "http://url/EntitySet('00000001')",
                                "uri": "http://url/EntitySet('00000001')",
                                "type": " NAMESPACE_SRV.Entity"
                            },
                            "Mon04": "",
                            "Mon03": "",
                            "Mon02": "09/2014",
                            "Mon01": "08/2014",
                            "Title": "Parent 1",
                            "ID": "00000001",
                            "ParentId": "",
                            "ChildId": "",
                        }, {
                            "__metadata": {
                                "id": "http://url/EntitySet('00000002')",
                                "uri": "http://url/EntitySet('00000002')",
                                "type": "NAMESPACE_SRV.Entity"
                            },
                            "Mon04": "",
                            "Mon03": "",
                            "Mon02": "1560",
                            "Mon01": "1550",
                            "Title": "Parent 2",
                            "ID": "00000002",
                            "ParentId": "",
                            "ChildId": "",
                        }, {
                            "__metadata": {
                                "id": "http://url/EntitySet('00000003')",
                                "uri": "http://url/EntitySet('00000003')",
                                "type": "NAMESPACE_SRV.Entity"
                            },
                            "Mon04": "",
                            "Mon03": "",
                            "Mon02": "1860",
                            "Mon01": "1750",
                            "Title": "Child 1",
                            "ID": "00000003",
                            "ParentId": "00000002",
                            "ChildId": "00000001",
                        }, {
                            "__metadata": {
                                "id": "http://url/EntitySet('00000004')",
                                "uri": "http://url/EntitySet('00000004')",
                                "type": "NAMESPACE_SRV.Entity"
                            },
                            "Mon04": "",
                            "Mon03": "",
                            "Mon02": "1860",
                            "Mon01": "1750",
                            "Title": "Child 1_1",
                            "ID": "00000004",
                            "ParentId": "00000003",
                            "ChildId": "00000001",
                        }, {
                            "__metadata": {
                                "id": "http://url/EntitySet('00000005')",
                                "uri": "http://url/EntitySet('00000005')",
                                "type": "NAMESPACE_SRV.Entity"
                            },
                            "Mon04": "",
                            "Mon03": "",
                            "Mon02": "2060",
                            "Mon01": "1950",
                            "Title": "Child 2",
                            "ID": "00000005",
                            "ParentId": "00000002",
                            "ChildId": "00000001",
                        }, {
                            "__metadata": {
                                "id": "http://url/EntitySet('00000006')",
                                "uri": "http://url/EntitySet('00000006')",
                                "type": "NAMESPACE_SRV.Entity"
                            },
                            "Mon04": "",
                            "Mon03": "",
                            "Mon02": "2060",
                            "Mon01": "1950",
                            "Title": "Child 3",
                            "ID": "00000006",
                            "ParentId": "00000002",
                            "ChildId": "00000001",
                        }]
                    }
                };
    
                var flat = {};
                for (var i = 0; i < data.d.results.length; i++) {
                    var key = 'id' + data.d.results[i].ID;
                    flat[key] = data.d.results[i];
                    flat[key].__metadata = "";
                }
    
                // add child container array to each node
                for (var i in flat) {
                    flat[i].children = []; // add children container
                }
    
                // populate the child container arrays
                for (var i in flat) {
                    var parentkey = 'id' + flat[i].ParentId;
                    if (flat[parentkey]) {
                        flat[parentkey].children.push(flat[i]);
                    }
                }
    
                // find the root nodes (no parent found) and create the hierarchy tree from them
                var root = [];
                for (var i in flat) {
                    var parentkey = 'id' + flat[i].ParentId;
                    if (!flat[parentkey]) {
                        root.push(flat[i]);
                    }
                }
    
                // here it is!          
                // console.log(root);    
    
                // to access the JSON via "/root" in bindRows(), could this be a problem?? 
                var data = {
                    root: root,
                };
    
                console.log(data);
    
                var oTreeModel = new sap.ui.model.json.JSONModel();
                oTreeModel.setData(data);
                oTreeTable.setModel(oTreeModel);
                oTreeTable.bindRows({
                    path: '/root',
                });
    
    
    
                return oTreeTable;
            },
        });
    
        sap.ui.controller("test.controller", {
            onInit: function() {
    
            }
        });
    
        sap.ui.view({
                type: sap.ui.core.mvc.ViewType.JS,
                viewName: "test.view"
            })
            .placeAt("uiArea");
    <script id='sap-ui-bootstrap' type='text/javascript' src='https://sapui5.hana.ondemand.com/resources/sap-ui-core.js' data-sap-ui-libs="sap.m,sap.ui.commons,sap.ui.table,sap.viz" data-sap-ui-theme="sap_bluecrystal"></script>  
    <body class="sapUiBody">
      <div id="uiArea"></div> 
    </body>