React-Admin | Bulk-Select with ReferenceField - react-admin

Question

In our application, we're trying to use Datagrid within ReferenceField to create/modify/delete related records, as shown in https://marmelab.com/blog/2018/07/09/react-admin-tutorials-form-for-related-records.html
All the functionality shown in the tutorial works well, except the bulk-actions added in a recent react-admin update. Clicking these checkboxes gives
Uncaught TypeError: _this.props.onToggleItem is not a function
I believe this is because the onToggleItem prop is normally provided by the List component, however in this application, Datagrid doesn't have a parent List component.
Adding a List component between ReferenceManyField and Datagrid allows bulk select/delete to work after some changes to the style, however this causes another issue: the current displayed page (i.e. records 1-10, 11-20, etc) is stored per-resource in the store, and so it is possible to have a situation where the store says we're on page 2, and displays page 2, which is empty because there are only enough related items to fill one page.
Am I missing something here? Or is bulk-select inside ReferenceManyField not possible at the moment?
export const NetworksShow = (props) => (
<Show title={<NetworksTitle />} actions={<NetworksShowActions />} {...props}>
<ReferenceManyField addLabel={false} target="ipid" reference="acl-network">
<List style={{ margin: '0px -24px -16px -24px' }} {...props} actions={<NetworkACLCardActions ipid={props.id}/>} filter={{ ipid: _.has(props, 'id') ? props.id : undefined }}>
<Datagrid hasBulkActions={true}>
<ReferenceField label="Network" source="ipid" reference="networks">
<TextField source="name" />
</ReferenceField>
<TextField label="URL" source="url" />
<BWChip label="Action" source="wb" />
<EditButton />
<DeleteButton />
</Datagrid>
</List>
</ReferenceManyField>
</Show>
);

Answer 1

As a side-effect of https://github.com/marmelab/react-admin/pull/2365, it is now possible to use ReferenceManyField -> List -> Datagrid in the way described in the question.
For example, we're now doing the following:
<ReferenceManyField addLabel={false} target="groupid" reference="users">
<List
style={{ margin: '0px -24px -16px -24px' }}
filter={{ groupid: id }}
{...props}
>
<Datagrid hasBulkActions>
<LinkField label="Name" source="name" />
<LinkField label="Username" source="email" />
<FlexibleBooleanField label="Email" source="allowemail" />
<ACLChip label="User Access" source="aclid" />
</Datagrid>
</List>
</ReferenceManyField>
Bulk actions works with the above, and any issues with pagination are avoided as react-admin now checks and modifies pagination if nothing appears on the current page.

Answer 2

As I've understood from the documentation, Datagrid is just an iterator "dumb component".
It just "shows" things that the parent - usually List (connected component) or in your case ReferenceManyField - element previously has fetched.
Thus I think that BulkActions can only be functional when provided by a List element.
For the second part of your issue, Lists should be used top-level and not within other elements that's why it breaks your pagination.

Answer 3

I implemented "DumbList" which takes data from parent component instead of loading it itself. This solves the problem:
import React from 'react';
import { ListController } from 'ra-core';
import { ListView } from 'ra-ui-materialui/esm/list/List';
export const DumbList = props =>
<ListController {...props}>
{controllerProps => {
let { data } = props
const ids = Object.keys(data || {})
const total = ids.length
return <ListView
{...props}
// This is important, otherwise bulkActionsToolbar ends up on very top of the page
classes={{ card: 'relative' }}
{...Object.assign(controllerProps, { data, ids, total })} />
}}
</ListController>