VirtuaScroll option to work as DataScroller

[GuzzoLM]

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Current behavior
DataTable VirtuallScroll works pretty much like a paginator: Scroll down and you see the next page, scroll up and you see previous page.
This behaviour seems odd to me, because if I scroll down and then scroll up, I'll be sending a request to my backend to fetch data that already have been fetched befor.
Is there a way to change this behaviour?

Expected behavior
I expected DataTable VirtualScroll to behave like the DataScroller.

What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior?
The whole point of using a VirtualScroll is to avoid pagination and data loading every time a change page occurs. With the current behavior, VirtualScroll miss this point.
So it would be nice if there was an option to change this behaviour to one that works more like the DataScroller.

• PrimeNG version: 4.1.3

• Browser: [all]

[FLNacif]

I'm needing the same feature!

[adrianabreu]

I need this feature too, I'm trying to play with the datatable behaviour, but it will trigger the change detector too many times

[cagataycivici]

We have a new component for virtual scroll;

#6869