Support for shiny input in colDef(cell = function(i) {...})

[eheinzen]

In #89 you mentioned that Shiny inputs are not yet supported in the cell definition, but are supported in the details. I've got a use case where I want the rows of my table to have a numericInput associated with them, but I don't want to put it in the details section. Any chance reactable could support that?

I'm looking into a workaround with Javascript for now, but I'm definitely no JS expert...

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UPDATE: If I put the reactable() in my UI, Shiny does recognize the numericInputs in my cells. It's only if I call renderReactable() from my server that it doesn't.

[glin]

Yeah, this is still on the to-do list somewhere. The last update was at #345 (comment), where I felt like it wouldn't be a common enough use case. Another issue was that it'd probably incur a performance cost to look for and re-bind Shiny inputs on every table change, even if there weren't any Shiny inputs present. I was thinking about making this more of an opt-in feature where you'd need to mark which cells could contain Shiny input/outputs.

For now, a possibility could be to use Reactable.onStateChange() to re-bind Shiny inputs on every table change manually.

This would be something like:

Reactable.onStateChange('table-id', state => {
  Shiny.unbindAll()
  Shiny.bindAll()
})

I haven't tested this, so I'm not 100% sure it'll work.