Scalable, pageable UIRichList needed

[davidpisaac]

We have an application that requires the ability to page through ALL of a very large number of search results.  The current richList implementation seems to assume ALL result rows can be read into a data object for paging in memory, rather than using the paging function of the underlying search engine.  Am I reading the code correctly?  Is this a problem for anyone else?  Would anyone else be interested in a UIRichList implementation that could utilize external paging, say as provided by a search engine for search results?

[kevinr]

I'm sure it would be useful for specialized clients. The only issue that may be a problem for you is that the NodeService and the SearchService in the Alfresco repository don't support paging themselves - there is no useful way to ask for "items 50-100" of a set of nodes - so the repo will still load all the nodes for a big search into memory anyway (due to Hibernate/permission checking etc.) so the UI is memory footprint actually a pretty thin addition on top of the Hibernate cache objects…

Kevin