other-emerald

How to handle pagination outside of the component `table` is defined in?

I just started using tanstack table today. Mostly going from the example on https://ui.shadcn.com/docs/components/data-table However I'm having quite some trouble making it re-useable for more than just a single table... I would like to turn it into an API like this:

<DataTable data={data} columns={columns} pagination={pagination} onPaginationChange={handlePagination} />

<DataTable data={data} columns={columns} pagination={pagination} onPaginationChange={handlePagination} />

However, I can't seem to wrap my head around how to get the pagination part to work without having direct access to the table and thus moving the table outside of the DataTable component I'm trying to make reusable. I thought I found a way with onPaginationChange in the useReactTable hook. But for some reason if I call table.getState() inside, the state is always old, and not the new "changed" state? I looked at the docs, it says it gets an updater, but no info on how to use it? I tried to use it like this, but that also didn't work.

onPaginationChange(updater) {
      return updater((old) => {
        console.log(table.getState())
        return { ...old }
       })
    },

onPaginationChange(updater) {
      return updater((old) => {
        console.log(table.getState())
        return { ...old }
       })
    },

I checked out the examples as well but all of them use table at the top level. Does anyone know how i can control pagination, filters, and sorting from a level above where table is

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other-emeraldOP•3y ago

Seems like I'm not the only one with this issue: https://github.com/shadcn/ui/discussions/592

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Actual pagination implementation with data-table? · shadcn ui · Dis...

Hey, so I've been following the official docs for data-table and tried implementing the "reusable" pagination for it, works great, however while the pagination does work, there's ...

other-emeraldOP•3y ago

Managed to sort of get something working with this:

const setPagination: OnChangeFn<PaginationState> = (updater) => {
    if (typeof updater === 'function') {
      const nextState = updater(pagination)
      setPaginationState(nextState)
    }
  }

const setPagination: OnChangeFn<PaginationState> = (updater) => {
    if (typeof updater === 'function') {
      const nextState = updater(pagination)
      setPaginationState(nextState)
    }
  }

But that seems overly complex for just controlling state?

absent-sapphire•3y ago

I don't see a reason why you would need to have pagination in separate component, but I'm guessing you could use ref to table to control it from outside component

extended-salmon•3y ago

I’ve approached this by using react context for the table component. That way anything rendered within that context can share the table state. So now you can add whatever you like and still get access to the data you need.

like-gold•2y ago

how to handle server side pagination i mean , i want something like url to be changed while doing pagination ..

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