Alternate data source for one column
Alternate data source for one column
990consulting
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The data source for all of my tables is the Editor engine, via AJAX calls as described in the manual and the examples. However, for one column, I would like to take the value of one of the columns, make a call out to an external API, and then report the value. Unless there's an out-of-the-box way to do this, I see only two ways of accomplishing it:
- client-side, by reporting a dummy column and then using a render call to get the value and update when available.
- server-side, by using a formatter.
Both of these seem like a bit of a hassle, since I'm no pro at JavaScript. Is there an out-of-the-box solution?
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No - there isn't an out of the box solution I'm afraid. What is the external API?
Allan
Truth be told, it's a Flask app that I'm writing to handle some of the heavier business logic, because I only started using Node so that I could use datatables.
No worries--I started looking into the AJAX for the editor engine, and it looks like the parts I'm using are fairly painless to implement in Python. It should actually make my code a lot simpler, since I've been jumping through hoops to handle some of the nutty stuff my app does.