Server Side Processing and Search

iordanougiannis

I have successfuly used server side processing to populate a table and now I want to add searching.
I would like to ask, is searching handled by the backend, the database ?

kthorngren

Searching is performed by the backend server code. Are you using the Datatables provided server scripts or something else?

Kevin

iordanougiannis

I am using Django and Django Rest Framework.

kthorngren

My suggestion would be to use client side processing unless you have thousands of records that cause performance issues. deferRender can help with page rendering speed but if the full set of data is slow with the ajax response then you will need Server Side Processing.

This page discusses the parameters sent to the server and the expected responses when using Server Side Processing. Your Django scripts will need to handle searching and sorting.

Kevin