ajax data fails to load, and then it loads

tomish

Hi, dataTables has been working great for me for years but recently I've had issues loading an ajax call in my file.

A regular ajax calls work fine on my server:

  $.ajax({
     url: "php/thebdl.php",
     context: document.body
  }).done(function() {
    $( this ).addClass( "done" );
  });

But in this context, it does not. Then a day or two later it does. I have copied and pasted code between applications that do work many, many times but no luck. I do not receive any error messages from dataTables. No error messages in my webserver log. I can go in and set a console log in the body below and it fires, so I know the code block is running. I have deliberately removed a comma in the code block below and I get an error message in the console.

$('#my_table').DataTable( {

   dom: 'Bfrtip',
     buttons: [
          'copy', 'csv', 'excel', 'pdf', 'print'
      ],

      lengthMenu: [[25, 50, 75, -1], [25, 50, 75, "All"]],
            "iDisplayLength": 25,


   ajax: {
      url: "php/thebdl.php",
      dataSrc: ""
   },
      columns: [
      { 'data': 'emp_id' },
      { 'data': 'last_name' },
      { 'data': 'first_name' },
       { 'data': 'check_amount' },
       { 'data': 'region' },
        { 'data': 'check_date' }
  ]
   } );
  } );

Apparently someone else is having the same issues and experience (recently too - this posting was last month)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/42178026/datatables-fails-to-load-ajax-data-source-objects

Thanks! Tom

allan

Hi Tom,

Can you link to the page showing the issue so I can check it out please? I don't immediately see anything wrong with the above initialisation code.

Allan