OnlyLonely & Marshall’s

I debug the problem for nearly half of this afternoon.  Here’s the description something who encountered the same problem wrote on stackoverflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/811596/why-does-dojo-grid-need-a-name-column-in-the-json-data-source/

In brief, if a json data source without a ‘name’ column is provided to a dojo grid, the grid won’t show the content but a row full with question marks.

So I dig into the source code and found that the grid would perform a query with ‘{name : ‘*’}’ by default. So the most simple workaround is to add an query attribute to the <table> element, making it:

<table query=”{ID:’*'}” …>

BTW, the code lies in ‘dojox/grid/compat/_data/model.js’