search event for global search only

ryan2johnson9

I have read https://datatables.net/reference/event/search and this is almost what I want.

I need to clear some column filters when the global search is used.

trouble is that the

oTable.on( 'search.dt', function () {
    var api = oTable.api();
    console.error( 'Currently applied global search: '+api.search() );
});

is called also when a single column is filtered

a workaround could possibly be to check if the api.search() has changed since last time

but is there a better way?

I might also be able to add my own listener to the global search and empty the column filters on change.