[Idea] Additional information about the table

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[Idea] Additional information about the table #112

Closed Alerinos closed 2 years ago

Alerinos commented 2 years ago

I got the idea that it would be nice to add information about it on the home page and in the table details. I mean, how many records are there, how many data takes (kb/mb), once I saw a ready-made function that returns all such information. A simple thing and I think it will help and be useful.

What do you think about this?

antifree commented 2 years ago

Hello, thank you for your proposal. Here are my thoughts about it:

The home page is just a selector for entities with its description.
The number of records is available in the grid.
Size of the data table is not information that is needed for all users of EasyData

Moreover, to render the home page we do not make requests to a database at all, all the information is taken from DbContext metadata, what you propose cannot be done without additional requests to the database

@korzh, What do you think?

korzh commented 2 years ago

Totally agree with @antifree

It would be nice to have this info in some cases but this feature is definitely not needed for everyone and requires a lot of additional requests to DB (1 extra request per each entity at least).

I think what we can do, is to provide an easy way for adding this info (or any extra data) into existing list items (on the Root view) and, maybe, a bunch of functions (both on the frontend part and in the API) that will help to collects this information for those who need it.

Obviously, it's not a priority functionality.