[Feature] "selected" CSS class on the row based on selection in PblDataSource.selection

[spali]

Please describe the feature you would like to request.

would like to have "selected" CSS class on the row based on selection in PblDataSource.selection.

What is the use-case or motivation for this proposal?

I try to build a reusable table component based on ngrid for an application. For that, I created a plugin directive which does support selection based on rowClick from the targetEvents plugin. It also has a feature to use shift select to select multiple rows. Because I don't want to have the additional select checkbox, I want to highlight the rows by inverting the row colors.
I got it managed by setting the rowClassUpdate to return a custom class for selected rows and temporary set rowClassUpdateFreq = 'ngDoCheck' and force a detectChanges(). and then set the rowClassUpdateFreq back to the origin value.
But the rowClassUpdate feature feels more like for the user to be used for custom stuff and I would like to have a solution without setting this function and to occupy it for the user.
Also I don't want to mess with the focus feature, because I want the user of the component to decide if he want's to use this feature and how.

I see two possible solutions:

• Having kind of an internal API for plugins that allows to add infinite amount of callbacks to control row CSS classes without messing with the only single solution for the user to do it.
• If ngrid would just set a predefined CSS class on selected rows based on the selection model (not the focus feature) and let the user define his own style for it. For my specific use-case, this would be the most simple solution.

[laryk9]

Hey, @spali I agree with you and I also think this feature is necessary.
In the meantime, I suggest you use the custom row feature (see reference: custom row).
With custom row, you can just define a simple ng-class instead of toggling the rowClassUpdate and running the change detector.

[spali]

Hi @laryk9
Thanks for your response. Yes, I started with the custom row feature. But since the select functionality is in a directive plugin I don't have access to a template from there. Sure it would be possible to do it in the reusable component that I build on top of that directive.
So I have even two possible workarounds till the feature will come ;)
But at the end of the day which workaround doesn't make a difference for me, because I'm currently also in control of the component, so anyway the user does not have access to the rowClassUpdate when not using the directive directly. And I assume the performance is almost the same.