can sAjaxSource return column definitions?

lancehilliard

Can the endpoint specified in sAjaxSource return, in addition to aaData, a property which defines the columns (similar to aoColumns)?

allan

Currently no. The reason for that is that JSON cannot include functions, which although not needed in aoColumns can be defined ( mRender etc) So currently, if you want to Ajax load column definitions, you need to use $.ajax to get the information. This might be relaxed in future versions of DataTables, but not yet!

Regards,
Allan

lancehilliard

I'm using mRender functions in my column definitions. I tried $.ajax before your reply, and sure enough it failed, b/c (as you said) the JSON including functions won't parse[1].

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/2001471/116895