Choose which column should represent a pointer (instead of objectId)

[AmbroiseCollon]

It would be nice to choose which column should represent a certain class when another points to it.

For instance, I have a Game class which contains a column player which is a pointer to User class. In the rows, a button represents this relationship like so :

It would be more user friendly to have something like this (here I chose username column) :

[drew-gross]

Neat idea! We'd need to fetch a bunch more data to actually retrieve the username, so we'd probably want to do this asynchronously.

[AmbroiseCollon]

Any more advice on how to work on this ?

Btw, I just gave an example, but it could be good to have this not only on User class but on every class even Custom and on any column. If possible ^^!

[drew-gross]

Ah, having this work on any class would be cool too. You would need to store the configuration of what column represents the object somewhere. Probably most of the modifications to make this happen would be in Browser.react.js, spread across fetchData, fetchNextPage, and probably a new function or two as well to handle the asynchronous part.

[AmbroiseCollon]

I had a look. I'm clearly not competent on this. Never done react before. And not a big js user. But I'm happy you liked the idea. I hope someone would tackle this (or me in some future... :) )

[mtrezza]

Interesting that this PR is open and untouched for such a long time.

I think this is a nice idea, but before attempting any PR on this, we should agree on some fundamentals.

Some issues that come to mind:

• How to decide which representation should be displayed, where is it stored?
• What to display if the representation field is missing
• What is the data traffic / performance impact? Does this require new indices, how are these created?
• How to copy the object ID if it is not displayed - what value is copied on Crtl + C - "Bob" or the object ID?

[mtrezza]

Closed via #1723