How to load related REST resources to display in DataTables

stodge

I'm using TastyPie to serve REST resources and DataTables to display the data in a grid. Some models I want to display in the grid have foreign keys to other models. So I load the JSON data for the models but I still need to retrieve the JSON for the related resources to display.

So let's say I have two models, User, Membership and the latter has a foreign key to the former. I want to view Membership data in the grid so I retrieve the JSON data for memberships. I want to display the username in each row but I only have the resource URI for the user and not the user data. So I need to perform other Ajax requests to get the user data.

If you're still following me, how would I go about doing this with DataTables? The render function available for the columns doesn't provide the ability to perform asynchronous requests - it just expects you to return a string, like so:

            "mRender": function(data, type, obj) {
                return dateFormat(obj.timestamp, "yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM:ss");
            }

Thanks

stodge

I was reading through the docs when I wrote this, but since then, I've discovered this option:

http://datatables.net/examples/advanced_init/row_callback.html

This may work.

stodge

I'm still using an older version so I can "fnRowCallback" works nicely.