What is the effect of paging on jqgrid's getChangedCells method when using clientArray(clientside) for editing?

Question

I am using jqgrid with clientArray option for editing;My grid is using paging; Will the jqgrid getChangedCells method return the correct changed rows even after changing pages several times with a possibility of data from the server having changed?- for example if new rows are available from the server that will now appear in my grid if I page back; Wont there be a rowId conflict - the new rowIds will be pointing to different rows from the ones before new data became available? I guess I could always order my server data by the autoincrementing primary key?..

Answer 1

found out today on experimenting; paging (server side) a jqgrid clears the result of getChangedCells; I had to create a utility function to store the getChangedCells array so that it persists across paging; Im doing this so I can submit all the changes separately In jqgrid options I have something like:

('#grid').jqgrid({
  ....
  cellEdit:true,
  cellSubmit:'clientArray',
  colModel: [ {...,editable:true,
                   dataInit:function(el){
                     el.autocomplete({...});
                   }...} ... ],
  afterSaveCell:function(){
                $.retainChangesOnPaging();
                 }
  ....

});

and in the utility retainChangesOnPaging I have something like:

(function(){
  var retainedChanges;
  retainedChanges = new Array();
  $.retainChangesOnPaging = function(){
    var changedCells = ('#grid').jqGrid('getChangedCells');
    // loop over changedCells array, removing duplicates if you want to...
      return  retainedChanges.push(/* this is inside the loop; push current value to array*/);
     ....
  }
   $.getRetainedChanges = function(){
     return retainedChanges;
   }
})(jQuery);

then when Im ready to submit all changes to server, I call $.getRetainedChanges Another question : is the way I used the retainChangesOnPaging correct? something seems wrong though the code works - can I make it better in any way? are my closures ok?