Dojo: The Definitive Guide

Summary

After reading this section, you should:

• Be familiar with the dojo.data APIs and understand the basic value provided by each of them

• Understand that the Read, Identity, Write, and Notification APIs are abstract, and that any implementation is possible

• Be aware that the dojox.data subproject provides several really useful custom stores that can save you time accomplishing common tasks such as interfacing to a store of comma-separated values, Flickr, and so on

• Be aware that the toolkit provides ItemFileReadStore and ItemFileWriteStore as generic yet powerful dojo.data implementations that you may customize or otherwise use as a basis for a custom implementation

• Understand the value in using custom type maps to save time manually serializing and deserializing data types

Next, we'll move on to simulated classes and inheritance.