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titleBrowser side provided property content in model
myFoundset: {
    foundsetId: 2, // an identifier that allows you to use this foundset via the 'foundsetRef' type;
                   // when a 'foundsetRef' type sends a foundset from server to client (for example
                   // as a return value of callServerSideApi) it will translate to this identifier
                   // on client (so you can use it to find the actual foundset property in the model if
                   // server side script put it in the model as well); internally when sending a
                   // 'foundset' typed property to server through a 'foundsetRef' typed argument or prop,
                   // it will use this foundsetId as well to find it on server and give a real Foundset

    serverSize: 44, // the size of the foundset on server (so not necessarily the total record count
                    // in case of large DB tables)
    viewPort: {
        // this is the data you need to have loaded on client (just request what you need via provided
        // loadRecordsAsync or loadExtraRecordsAsync)
        startIndex: 15,
        size: 5,
        rows: [ { _svyRowId: 'someRowIdHASH1', name: "Bubu", type: 2 },
                { _svyRowId: 'someRowIdHASH2', name: "Ranger", type: 1 },
                { _svyRowId: 'someRowIdHASH3', name: "Yogy", type: 2 },
                { _svyRowId: 'someRowIdHASH4', name: "Birdy", type: 3 },
                { _svyRowId: 'someRowIdHASH5', name: "Wolfy", type: 4 } ]
    },
    selectedRowIndexes: [16], // array of selected records in foundset; indexes can be out of current
                              // viewPort as well
	sortColumns: 'orderid asc', // sort string of the foundset, the same as the one used in scripting for 
								// foundset.sort and foundset.getCurrentSort
    multiSelect: false, // the multiselect mode of the server's foundset; if this is false,
                        // selectedRowIndexes can only have one item in it
    hasMoreRows: false, // if the foundset is large and on server-side only part of it is loaded (so
                        // there are records in the foundset beyond 'serverSize') this is set to true;
                        // in this way you know you can load records even after 'serverSize' (requesting
                        // viewport to load records at index serverSize-1 or greater will load more
                        // records in the foundset)
    columnFormats: { name: (...), type: (...) }, // columnFormats is only present if you specify
                        // "provideColumnFormats": true inside the .spec file for this foundset property;
                        // it gives the default column formatting that Servoy would normally use for
                        // each column of the viewport - which you can then also use in the
                        // 	browser yourself

    /**
     * Request a change of viewport bounds from the server; the requested data will be loaded
     * asynchronously in 'viewPort'
     *
     * @param startIndex the index that you request the first record in "viewPort.rows" to have in
     *                   the real foundset (so the beginning of the viewPort).
     * @param size the number of records to load in viewPort.
     *
     * @return {promise} a $q promise that will get resolved when the requested records arrived browser-
     *                   side. As with any promise you can register success, error callbacks, finally, ...
     */
    loadRecordsAsync: function(startIndex, size),

    /**
     * Request more records for your viewPort; if the argument is positive more records will be
     * loaded at the end of the 'viewPort', when negative more records will be loaded at the beginning
     * of the 'viewPort' - asynchronously.
     *
     * @param negativeOrPositiveCount the number of records to extend the viewPort.rows with before or
     *                                after the currently loaded records.
     * @param dontNotifyYet if you set this to true, then the load request will not be sent to server
     *                      right away. So you can queue multiple loadLess/loadExtra before sending them
     *                      to server. If false/undefined it will send this (and any previously queued
     *                      request) to server. See also notifyChanged().
     *
     * @return {promise} a $q promise that will get resolved when the requested records arrived browser-
     *                   side. As with any promise you can register success, error callbacks, finally, ...
     *                   That allows custom component to make sure that loadExtra/loadLess calls from
     *                   client do not stack on not yet updated viewports to result in wrong bounds.
     */
    loadExtraRecordsAsync: function(negativeOrPositiveCount, dontNotifyYet),
 
    /**
     * Request a shrink of the viewport; if the argument is positive the beginning of the viewport will
     * shrink, when it is negative then the end of the viewport will shrink - asynchronously.
     *
     * @param negativeOrPositiveCount the number of records to shrink the viewPort.rows by before or
     *                                after the currently loaded records.
     * @param dontNotifyYet if you set this to true, then the load request will not be sent to server
     *                      right away. So you can queue multiple loadLess/loadExtra before sending them
     *                      to server. If false/undefined it will send this (and any previously queued
     *                      request) to server. See also notifyChanged().
     *
     * @return {promise} a $q promise that will get resolved when the requested records arrived browser
     *                   -side. As with any promise you can register success, error callbacks, finally, ...
     *                   That allows custom component to make sure that loadExtra/loadLess calls from
     *                   client do not stack on not yet updated viewports to result in wrong bounds.
     */
    loadLessRecordsAsync: function(negativeOrPositiveCount, dontNotifyYet),

    /**
     * If you queue multiple loadExtraRecordsAsync and loadLessRecordsAsync by using dontNotifyYet = true
     * then you can - in the end - send all these requests to server (if any are queued) by calling
     * this method. If no requests are queued, calling this method will have no effect. It returns nothing.
     */
    notifyChanged: function(),

    /**
     * Sort the foundset by the dataproviders/columns identified by sortColumns.
     *
     * The name property of each sortColumn can be filled with the dataprovider name the foundset provides
     * or specifies. If the foundset is used with a component type (like in table-view) then the name is
     * the name of the component on who's first dataprovider property the sort should happen. If the
     * foundset is used with another foundset-linked property type (dataprovider/tagstring linked to 
     * foundsets) then the name you should give in the sortColumn is that property's 'idForFoundset' value
     * (for example a record 'dataprovider' property linked to the foundset will be an array of values
     * representing the viewport, but it will also have a 'idForFoundset' prop. that can be used for 
     * sorting in this call; this 'idForFoundset' was added in version 8.0.3).
     *
     * @param {JSONArray} sortColumns an array of JSONObjects { name : dataprovider_id,
     *                    direction : sortDirection }, where the sortDirection can be "asc" or "desc".
     * @return {promise} (added in Servoy 8.2.1) a $q promise that will get resolved when the new sort
     *                   will arrive browser-side. As with any promise you can register success, error
     *                   and finally callbacks.
     */
    sort: function(sortColumns),
 
    /**
     * Request a selection change of the selected row indexes. Returns a promise that is resolved
     * when the client receives the updated selection from the server. If successful, the array
     * selectedRowIndexes will also be updated. If the server does not allow the selection change,
     * the reject function will get called with the 'old' selection as parameter. 
     *
     * If requestSelectionUpdate is called a second time, before the first call is resolved, the
     * first call will be rejected and the caller will receive the string 'canceled' as the value
     * for the parameter serverRows.
     * E.g.: foundset.requestSelectionUpdate([2,3,4]).then(function(serverRows){},function(serverRows){});
     */
    requestSelectionUpdate : function(selectedRowIdxs),
 
    /**
     * Sets the preferred viewPort options hint on the server for this foundset, so that the next
     * (initial or new) load will automatically return that many rows, even without any of the loadXYZ
     * methods above being called.
     *
     * You can use this when the component size is not known initially and the number of records the
     * component wants to load depends on that. As soon as the component knows how many it wants 
     * initially it can call this method.
     *
     * These can also be specified initially using the .spec options "initialPreferredViewPortSize" and
     * "sendSelectionViewportInitially". But these can be altered at runtime via this method as well
     * because they are used/useful in other scenarios as well, not just initially: for example when a
     * related foundset changes parent record, when a search/find is performed and so on.
     *
     * @param preferredSize the preferred number or rows that the viewport should get automatically
     *                      from the server.
     * @param {boolean} sendViewportWithSelection if this is true, the auto-sent viewport will contain
     *                                            the selected row (if any).
     * @param {boolean} centerViewportOnSelected if this is true, the selected row will be in the middle
     *                                           of auto-sent viewport if possible. If it is false, then
     *                                           the foundset property type will assume a 'paging'
     *                                           strategy and will send the page that contains the 
     *                                           selected row (here the page size is assumed to be
     *                                           preferredSize).
     */
    setPreferredViewportSize: function(preferredSize, sendViewportWithSelection, centerViewportOnSelected),
		
    /**
    * It will send a data update for a cell (ros & column) in the foundset to the server.
    * Please make sure to adjust the viewport value as well not just call this method.
    *
    * This method is useful if you do not want to add angular watches on data (so calculated pushToServer for the foundset property is set to just 'allow').
    * Then server will accept data changes from this property, but there are no automatic watches to detect the changes so the component must call
    * this method instead - when it wants to change the data in a cell.
    * 
    * @param rowID the _svyRowId (so $foundsetTypeConstants.ROW_ID_COL_KEY) column of the client side row
    * @param columnID the name of the column to be updated on server (in that row).
    * @param newValue the new data in that cell
    * @param oldValue the old data that used to be in that cell
    * @return (added in 2021.06 return this) a $q promise that will get resolved when the new cell value
    *                   update is done server-side (resolved if ok, rejected if it failed). As with any promise you can register success, error
    *                   and finally callbacks.
	*/
    updateViewportRecord(rowID: string, columnID: string, newValue: any, oldValue: any): angular.IPromise<any>;

    /**
     * Add a change listener that is interested in knowing of any incoming changes (from server)
     * for this foundset property. See the "Adding a change listener" section below for more information.
     */
    addChangeListener : function(listener),

    /**
     * Removes the given change listener from this foundset property.
     */
    removeChangeListener: function(listener),
 
    /**
     * Receives a client side rowID (taken from myFoundsetProp.viewPort.rows[idx]
     * [$foundsetTypeConstants.ROW_ID_COL_KEY]) and gives a Record reference, an object
     * which can be resolved server side to the exact Record via the 'record' property type;
     * for example if you call a handler or a $scope.svyServoyapi.callServerSideApi(...) and want
     * to give it a Record as parameter and you have the rowID and foundset in your code,
     * you can use this method. E.g: $scope.svyServoyapi.callServerSideApi("doSomethingWithRecord",
     *                     [$scope.model.myFoundsetProp.getRecordRefByRowID(clickedRowId)]);
     *
     * NOTE: if in your component you know the whole row (so myFoundsetProp.viewPort.rows[idx])
     * already - not just the rowID - that you want to send you can just give that directly to the
     * handler/serverSideApi; you do not need to use this method in that case. E.g:
     * // if you have the index inside the viewport
     * $scope.svyServoyapi.callServerSideApi("doSomethingWithRecord",
     *           [$scope.model.myFoundsetProp.viewPort.rows[clickedRowIdx]]);
     * // or if you have the row directly
     * $scope.svyServoyapi.callServerSideApi("doSomethingWithRecord", [clickedRow]);
     *
     * This method has been added in Servoy 8.3.
     */
	getRecordRefByRowID: function(rowId)

}

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If you are using foundset linked properties with your foundset property you might want to add the listener as shown here.

The "changes" parameter above is a javascript Object containing one or more keys, depending on what changes took place. The keys specify the type of change that happened; they can be any of the constants starting with NOTIFY_... from "$foundsetTypeConstants" service. The value gives any extra information needed for that type of change. Here is what "changes" can contain (one or more of the keys/values listed below):

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Please note the when your listener is called the actual contents of the viewPort are already updated. So, at that time your viewport already looks like the last version above. You might find (for Servoy < 8.4) what $foundsetTypeUtils below provides useful depending on how you plan on using this listener. For 8.4 and higher you no longer need to compute indexes like that client-side (because the server pays attention to process all changes in such a way that the indexes in the ones that need to change data are the correct ones compared to the end state of the changed viewport).

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