Language re-init ?

Christilut

Hi,

This is what my DT looks like:

        $('#product-table-residual').DataTable({
            stateSave: true,
            dom: 'C<"clear">rtipf<"top"il<"clear">>t',
            colVis: {
                restore: window.locale["RestoreColumns"],
                exclude: [0],
                buttonText: window.locale["ChooseColumns"],
                overlayFade: 0,
            },
            serverSide: true,
            sAjaxSource: window.urlproductlist_residual, // old naming to force legacy
            columnDefs: [
                {
                    class: 'details-control',
                    orderable: false,
                    data: null,
                    defaultContent: '',
                    targets: 0,
                },
            ],
            language: {
                url: window.dtLanguageFile
            },
            order: [[1, 'asc']],
            initComplete: function () {
                colvis = $('.ColVis');
                colvis.appendTo($('.sorting_disabled.details-control:first'));
            }
        }).page(0),

The problem is that after I added the language parameter, the initComplete and columnDefs no longer work. I suspect that they do work but the language parameter causes a DT re-init, without calling initComplete and columnDefs.

How would I go about fixing this? I tried to hook into the init event but it has the same problem as initComplete.

allan

The problem is that after I added the language parameter, the initComplete and columnDefs no longer work

Can you please link to a test case showing this so I can debug it.

Allan

Christilut

I couldn't manage to reproduce it in the live.datatables site (ajax requests and stuff) but after fiddling around some more I've narrowed it down.

url: window.dtLanguageFile

contains the server URL for the .json file. If I change that line to

url: '//cdn.datatables.net/plug-ins/a5734b29083/i18n/English.json'

it works fine. The file itself is the same.
So not sure exactly what the cause is, but I'm guessing it is a server configuration issue. I'll stick with the datatables CDN for now.
Thanks!

Christilut

Actually I then realized whats going on.

If the language URL is invalid, it apparently causes the behavior I've seen.

Here's a jsbin: http://live.datatables.net/peyivizi/1/edit

Notice theres no alert with the invalid url. Remove the language paramter and the alert happens.

Hope this helps!

allan

Ah interesting. Thanks for letting me know about that.

I've just committed a fix so that if the language file fails to load, it will just continue using the defaults (or the client-side specified options if there are any). I've made a couple of related changes which saves about 20 bytes from the library size, so I'm happy :-).

The nightly is rebuilding at the moment and will shortly be available with this fix on the downloads page.

Allan