Passing DataTable object to initComplete callback

dabee

Hi @alan
Thank you for your great work!

Can't figure out
Let's say I have this code:

function afterTableInitialization(table) {
    table.columns().every( function () {
          // any code ...
    });
}

table = $('table').DataTable({
     "initComplete": afterTableInitialization (table)
});

And I certainly get Uncaught ReferenceError: table is not defined
I do this with external callback cause of using ajax to load table contants and then initiating DataTables itself

So the question is - how do I pass initialized DataTable object to my callback so I can operate it via API?

Thanks in advance

dabee

Well I guess I've just figured it out myself.
So the code should look like this:

function afterTableInitialization(settings, json) {
    table = settings.oInstance.api();
    table.columns().every( function () {
          // any code ...
    });
}
 
table = $('table').DataTable({
     "initComplete":  function (settings, json) {
                    afterTableInitialization(settings,json)
      }
});

So the main changes is that I pass settings to my callback (json is optional in this case) and then get DataTables object out of it with table = settings.oInstance.api();

Hope this will help someone:)