How to know if DataTable is using serverside or client data?

mxaaron

I've initialized a data table by two ways:

CLIENT TABLE:

  self.outputTable = components.tables.adhocValidationOutputTable.DataTable({
                info: true,
                searching: false,
                responsive: true,
                data: data,
                bServerSide: false,
                sPaginationType: "full_numbers",
                columns: [
                    { title: "Issue Type", data: "issueType" },
                    { title: "File", data: "file" },
                    { title: "Line", data: "lineNumber" },
                    { title: "Rule", data: "rule" },
                    { title: "Message", data: "text"}
                ]
            });

SERVER SIDE TABLE:

 self.outputTable = components.tables.adhocValidationOutputTable.DataTable({
                info: true,
                searching: false,
                responsive: true,
                bProcessing: true,
                bServerSide: true,
                ajax: {
                    url: "/filevalidation/getPage/",
                    type: 'POST',
                    data: function (d) {
                        d.timestamp = self.timestamp;
                        d.customerCode = self.selectedTenantInDB();
                    }
                },
                deferLoading: 0,
                sPaginationType: "full_numbers",
                columns: [
                    { title: "Issue Type", data: "issueType" },
                    { title: "File", data: "file" },
                    { title: "Line", data: "lineNumber" },
                    { title: "Rule", data: "rule" },
                    { title: "Message", data: "text"}
                ]
            });

I've tried using self.outputTable.settings()[0].bServerSide to see if it's true or false but it comes up undefined for me, although other properties are there.

Is there something missing from my initialization?

jLinux

I dont have a server side example to be able to debug, but there should definitely be something in the settings() output, I usually just output the settings to the console via console.log and poke through the data (Like so), it would definitely be in the oInit object, but there should also be a server side object, probably called oServerSide. I use the ajax mostly, and theres an ajax object.

allan

You need to know this on the client-side at run time? If so use the page.info() method which has a serverSide property that will be true if the table is server-side processing. Never use the settings object is you can possibly avoid it. The properties in it can, will and do change between versions - it is a private API.

If you are simply curious about a table you can run the debugger on the table. It will tell you how the table is set up and what the data source is.

Allan