trouble with parsing array of obj from remote server (json)

rsilva

Thank you guys in advance for any help you might be able to provide me here.
I am getting this error:
jquery.dataTables.min.js:39 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'length' of undefined

Here's my markup:

<table id="example" class="display" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
        <thead>
            <tr>
                <th>ID</th>
                <th>Activity</th>
                <th>Start</th>
                <th>End</th>
                <th>Description</th>
            </tr>
        </thead>
    </table>

Here's my API call:

   $('#example').DataTable( {
        "processing": true,
        "serverSide": true,
        "ajax": {
            "url": "//API_URL-XXXXXXXX",
            "dataType": "json"
        },
        "aoColumns": [
            { "mData": "_id" },
            { "mData": "activity" },
            { "mData": "start" },
            { "mData": "end" },
            { "mData": "description" }
        ]
    } );

Here's the network response: (validated as good json!)
200 OK

[{"_id":"56edd040c085311a00dfdf77","activity":"testing new","start":"03-22-2016","end":"03-22-2016","description":"<p>testing description</p>"},{"_id":"56edd0413625401a00b23a7b","activity":"testing new","start":"03-22-2016","end":"03-22-2016","description":"<p>testing description</p>"},{"_id":"56edd0423625401a00b23a7d","activity":"testing new","start":"03-22-2016","end":"03-22-2016","description":"<p>testing description</p>"},{"_id":"56edd046c085311a00dfdf79","activity":"testing new","start":"03-22-2016","end":"03-22-2016","description":"<p>testing description</p>"}]

I am probably missing something trivial. Can anybody spot the problem? Thank you!

rsilva

I figured it out.
I was missing:

"dataSrc": ''

Found it via: https://datatables.net/manual/ajax

I hope this can help someone.