aoData null when using turbolinks

maciuspl

Hi,

First of all I'm not experienced javascript programmer. I'm using in my application turbolinks. When I make full page reload everything is fine with datatables, but when I go to another page and back oTable.fnGetData(rowIndex) throws Cannot read property 'aoData' of null. Why aoData is null. Is there any easy solution for this problem?

Thanks for help, regards!

allan

As per the forum rules, please link to a test case showing the issue.

Allan

maciuspl

This is my scenario without turbolink's functionality. If it doesn't help with finding solution I will try to add turbolinks functionality (Dunno how now). I left comments in code.

http://live.datatables.net/idinat/16/

Thank you very much !

allan

In all honestly, I don't even know what "turbolink" is...

However, you are passing in a row id into fnGetData . It expects a node or an index - _not_ an id.

Just use:

[code]
var data = table.fnGetData( $(this).parents('tr')[0] );
[/code]

rather than than mucking around with ids.

Allan

maciuspl

This doesn't help. Still getting this error:

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'aoData' of null jquery.dataTables.js?body=1:5715
fnGetData jquery.dataTables.js?body=1:5715

Turbolinks allows you to change only body and the title in the head of your site instead downloading css and js everytime. I think it is something similiar to pjax if you heard.

Do you have any idea ?

Thanks !

maciuspl

I know this is probably not bug in data tables (rather integration dt with turbolinks) but with your little help and knowledge I will find out what is not right :)

Thank's for help !

allan

It seems to work okay for me: http://live.datatables.net/idinat/18/edit . When you click a details button it shows the row's data on the console.

Allan

maciuspl

With normal request everything is fine. I have problem when with turbolink's, cause I go to another page using pushState (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/API/DOM/Manipulating_the_browser_history#The_pushState().C2.A0method) method.

To reproduce the problem I must go to site with datatable go to another site using push state (Turbolink) and go back to datatable site, then I have aoData null.

Caveats: After change page (via pushState, read Turbolink) the global js is not cleaned.

Thanks for your time :)

allan

That sounds well beyond the scope of DataTables now. You might be best asking on a generic Javascript forum or something specifically for TurboLink.

Allan