jqGrid, how to populate select list from query

Question

I got a basic jqGrid working in my coldfusion project. One of my fields in jqGrid is a combo box. Currently the editoption values are hard coded just like below.

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Answer 1

The $.getJSON / getSequenceNumbers() answer does not work as presented. There is no way to return data from a callback as the return value for getSequenceNumbers() because the callback is asynchronous. You either need to use the dataURL method suggested by Martin or setup the jqGrid inside of the $.getJSON callback.

$(document).ready(function() {
 $.getJSON("GetURL", function(data) {
  setupGrid(data);
 });
});

function setupGrid(data) {
...
    colModel :
    [
      {
       name:'seqnum',index:'seqnum', width:100,resizable:true,   
       align:"left",sorttype:"text",editable:true,edittype:"select",editoptions:
       { value:data},editrules:{required:true}
      }
    ]

...
}