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

Use dataUrl... (see the wiki here).

Currently dataUrl generates a GET but if one pulls the code from Github the GET can be changes to a POST with no apparent side effects.