Advice on update-callback performance and state management

Posted by: joni.dewinter on 19 October 2021, 5:39 pm EST

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    Posted 19 October 2021, 5:39 pm EST

    Hello

    In an ASP.NET MVC 5 application, using Spread.NET 14, we found out that as sheets become larger and more complex, the update-callback quickly becomes heavy.

    In our case, the call may take up to 1-1.5 seconds and contain a response payload of almost 1 MB.

    We are heavily reliant on caching to ensure no remote calls (database, REST api’s) need to be made during those callbacks.

    We have read the documentation on state management (https://www.grapecity.com/spreadnet/docs/v14/online-asp/spweb-statemgmt.html) and chose for the “session state” option, but this only improved the performance by a few 100ms.

    Is there any way we could improve the callback performance to have a more fluent, Excel-like experience with (almost) immediate serverside evaluation?

    Could the choice of state management have any impact on this?

    Thanks in advance!

    Kind regards

    Joni

  • Posted 20 October 2021, 10:26 pm EST

    Hi Joni,

    We are sorry but without any sample, it would be hard to comment on the nature of the issue. Could you please provide a working sample that demonstrates the issue so that we could investigate the issue and help you accordingly?

    Regards,

    Avinash

  • Posted 25 January 2022, 3:37 am EST

    Hello Avinash

    Sorry for the late reply.

    The main reason for long loading times was our approach of manually calling Update-method after every data change to achieve immediate evaluation of conditional formattings (see https://www.grapecity.com/forums/spread-webforms/conditional-formatting-not_1).

    Those calls are much heavier than the built-in automatic callbacks.

    We eventually built a custom (mostly front-end) mechanism to render conditional formattings after every automatic callback.

    This way, we achieved acceptable load times.

    This topic can be closed.

    Kind regards

    Joni

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