I have a similar requirement for my use of the jqGrid. So far I've been able to achieve what I needed by wrapping my batch-edit code around their cell-edit plugin. At the end of editing a particular grid, the changes can be retrieved using the getChangedCells() method.

My question is, however, are there any built-in jqGrid methods for posting an array of changed cell/row data to the server? I realize I can accomplish this with multiple calls to saveRow, but for large batches of changed data, the amount of overhead caused by repeatedly making round-trips to the server would be just too much.

Anyone know a solution to this problem?