Reading data outside the 'data' object

smerchant

How do I read the data which is outside the data object e.g. client Id and time element which is not a column but just information about the dataset.

Thanks

    {   
        "client_id":"ddddd",
        "time":"16:00m",
        "data": [
            {
                "Book": "Mr Smith",
                "Author": [],
                "Description": "",
    }}

allan

It depends where you want to get the data? Assuming you are using ajax to get the JSON, then you can use ajax.json() to get the response from the server at some other point.

Allan

smerchant

I am getting a json from GitHub raw data and yes I am using ajax url option. So are you suggesting that I can do something like below to get data var json?

table.on( 'xhr', function () {
    var json = table.ajax.json();
    alert( json.data.length +' row(s) were loaded' );
} );

colin

Yep, that would do it - see here: http://live.datatables.net/ruhuguwu/3/edit

Colin

smerchant

Thanks Colin. That's what I did.