[Laszlo-user] emptying a dataset

[Jesse Norell]

Hello,

  What is the proper way to empty a dataset?  If I use setChildNodes([])
it seems to do what I want, except inspecting the dataset shows "data"
still holds the old values.  Maybe that's not a problem?  I could follow
up the setChildNodes() with a datasetname.data=[], but I don't know if
that's a bad thing to do or not (has side effects?  memory leaks?).
(And a maybe related question: do you need to worry about memory leaks
in openlaszlo apps?)

  I've also tried to use destroy() and assign a new LzDataset(), but the
databound components don't work after that.

  I imagine you could loop through the entire dataset calling
removeChild() on each child node, but I suspect that would be
inefficient for large datasets.

Thanks,
Jesse


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Jesse Norell
Kentec Communications, Inc.
jesse at kci.net