Question

Is it possible in Dojo to create a widget programatically that does an xhr during postCreate and then on response create a data grid and display contents. Attach points in templatestring are allowed, but no markup. The widget can take in a srcNode parameter.

onMyCreate(params, srcNode)
{
    // everything happens within in the widget and the display.
    var wdg = new MyWidget(params, srcNode);
}

Answer 1

I don’t see why not. Create store –> xhr to get data –> populate store with data –> create data grid at the attach point passed in giving it reference to that store. It shouldn’t make a difference where you decide to call it as long as the attach point exists and you handle the store correctly.