display checkboxes next to nodes for node selection

[vasanthid]

Hi @CarlosNZ,

Thank you for creating this library. It's easy to understand and integrate.
I'm exploring json-edit-react for my current use case where instead of add, delete, edit operations on node, I need users to be able to select the nodes they want. I was thinking of displaying checkboxes to next nodes, on select/check of the checkbox provide custom event handler to extract only the selected node from the big original json.

Is this feasible with the current version of json-edit-react ? If so, could you provide some pointers? Thank you.

[CarlosNZ]

Hi @vasanthid, I think you should be able to do what you're wanting using Custom Buttons: https://github.com/CarlosNZ/json-edit-react?tab=readme-ov-file#custom-buttons

The only limitation I can see is that there's currently no "condition" option for custom buttons -- they'll appear on every node. Do you need that kind of control or is on every node okay?

[vasanthid]

@CarlosNZ - Thank you for the response. I need to display checkboxes only on certain nodes and not on all the nodes. Yes, I need that kind of control. Any workaround for this?

I'll try using Custom Buttons and see how that goes.

[CarlosNZ]

Any workaround for this?

Not currently, as I didn't think there was much interested in the custom buttons. I had even made an issue to do this (#149), but hadn't made it a priority.

Will be pretty easy to implement though, so I'll bump it up to the next release.

Thanks for the feedback