Items List

Every application has lots of information from inputs. For the application to be able to preserve and exploit that, it uses something like data storage called items_list. It is an object array with all information from inputs. It is empty by default. When you add an item with a need for inputs in application, new object will appear in item_list. It contains details from each field.

For each input template will be created a new instance with such information:

Name	Type	Description
fields	`array`	contains information about data; details...
index_number	`number`	shows index number of the item in the list; details...
item_id	`number`	saves unique identification number
last_update	`number`	shows last time of update in milliseconds; is used for showing updated file information after reloading the page

fields

This property is an object array. It is empty by default. It appears when new data is created. It consists of three properties. field_value saves data value, field_id shows what type of data is value, and data_id is the ID used by the server.

index_number

Each field has an index number depending on its location in the list. Index starts from 1. When we delete the item, the index_number of other ones will save their numbers. Despite this, when we add a new item, its index_number will get the value after the last number.

For example, we had 3 items.

Example table for indexes

[
    {
    "fields": [{...
        "field_value": "first",...
        },...],
    "index_number": 1,
    "item_id": 2918286,
    "last_update": 1638969490135,
    },
    {
    "fields": [{...
        "field_value": "second",...
        },...],
    "index_number": 2,
    "item_id": 2919988,
    "last_update": 1638969479184,
    },
    {
    "fields": [{...
        "field_value": "third",...
        },...],
    "index_number": 3,
    "item_id": 2919989,
    "last_update": 1638969498385,
    }
]

If we delete the second one, the third item's index_number will remain 3. The first’s one will remain the same too. The next step is adding a new item that will get number 4.

Example table after changing indexes

[
    {
    "fields": [{...
        "field_value": "first",...
        },...],
    "index_number": 1,
    "item_id": 2918286,
    "last_update": 1638969479184,
    },
    {
    "fields": [{...
        "field_value": "third",...
        },...],
    "index_number": 3,
    "item_id": ,
    "last_update": 1638969498385,
    },
    {
    "fields": [{...
        "field_value": "fourth",...
        },...],
    "index_number": 4,
    "item_id": ,
    "last_update": 1638970078808,
    }
]