How to approach having to use a huge search parameter? Aka "regexp too big" overflow error
How to approach having to use a huge search parameter? Aka "regexp too big" overflow error
Mojimi
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Hello, I'm having problems with some complex AJAX data.
My tables contain 50k + rows, and on some searches, first we query the server for the list of IDS to filter, and then we feed this list to the ID column, this list of IDS can get pretty big.
Here's an example using 30k ids to filter the first column : http://live.datatables.net/picoqafe/1/edit (I know this example makes no sense, just go with it)
Is this something that can't be avoided? Should I look for a different approach?
The error happens at line 4357 of jquery,dataTables.js version 1.10.17
I understand this could be solved by breaking the regex apart, but I wouldn't know how to edit the dataTables Javascript to achieve this.
I really would appreciate any solution here, this completely halted my development
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Hi,
As we discussed on Github I would suggest that you use a custom search plug-in rather than using a massive regex that the Javascript engine can't handle.
Allan