After reading this section, you should:
Be familiar with the
dojo.data
APIs and understand the basic value provided by each of themUnderstand that the
Read
,Identity
,Write
, andNotification
APIs are abstract, and that any implementation is possibleBe 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 onBe aware that the toolkit provides
ItemFileReadStore
andItemFileWriteStore
as generic yet powerfuldojo.data
implementations that you may customize or otherwise use as a basis for a custom implementationUnderstand 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.
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