DataSource Utility: Examples

The DataSource Utility provides a common configurable interface for other components to fetch tabular data from a variety of local or remote sources.

• Extracting data from an HTML table: Extract data from an HTML table into an array of object records
• YQLDataSource: YQLDataSource is a subclass of ScriptNodeDataSource that makes it easy to work with YQL data.

Other YUI Examples That Make Use of the DataSource Utility

• Basic Local Data (included with examples for the AutoComplete Control)
• Basic Remote Data (included with examples for the AutoComplete Control)
• Custom Formatting, with a Proxyless Remote DataSource (included with examples for the AutoComplete Control)
• Customizing Remote Requests (included with examples for the AutoComplete Control)
• Datatable with Autocomplete (included with examples for the DataTable Control)
• Find Photos on Flickr (included with examples for the AutoComplete Control)
• FunctionDataSource to Search Multiple Fields of an Address Book at Runtime (included with examples for the AutoComplete Control)
• Inline Cell Editing (included with examples for the DataTable Control)
• Integrating Browser History Manager with Server-side Pagination and Sorting (included with examples for the DataTable Control)
• JSON Data Over XHR (included with examples for the DataTable Control)
• Polling the DataSource (included with examples for the DataTable Control)
• Progressive Enhancement (included with examples for the DataTable Control)
• Screenreader Accessibility (included with examples for the AutoComplete Control)
• Server-side Pagination and Sorting for Dynamic Data (included with examples for the DataTable Control)
• Textual Data Over XHR (included with examples for the DataTable Control)
• XML Data Over XHR With POST (included with examples for the DataTable Control)
• XML Data with XPath (included with examples for the DataTable Control)