Deep link into DataTables with regex

trongart

I am not sure how to provide a test case for this question, but maybe it needs none:

Following this example to Deep link into DataTables, is it possible to use a regex search such as below:

In the search field:

software|Accountant

In the URL ( replacing | with %7C ):
https://datatables.net/blog/2017-07-24?search.search=software%7CAccountant

Using the following in my datatables:
"search": {
"regex": true,
"smart": false
},
Regex works correctly when the link is normal without search.search. As soon as ?search.search is added to the URL, regex no longer works. However, search.search is working correctly for non regex values.

allan

You would need to include search.regex in the URL and also in your deep link configuration. Perhaps you can give me a link to your page so I can take a look?

Allan

trongart

Appreciate your help @allan - if I include search.regex in the URL, would it be something like this:

https://datatables.net/blog/2017-07-24?search.regex=software%7CAccountant

This does not produce results in my page (global search box stays empty). Is there maybe something I need to activate for regex to work with this plugin?

I use the following structure:

var searchOptions = $.fn.dataTable.ext.deepLink( ['search.search'] );
var defaultOptions = {.......
"search": {
"regex": true,
"smart": false
},.....
};
var table = $('#example').DataTable($.extend( defaultOptions, searchOptions ));

This structure works for non-regex search.search.

trongart

Correction: I do get results when using ?search.regex in the URL as above, but the global search box stays empty.

allan

You'd need something more like this:

```

<?php search.search=software|Accountant&search.regex=true&search.smart=false ``` ?>

That doesn't work on my link above because the deepLink extension isn't setup to look for search.regex and search.smart. The initialisation would need to be extended for them.

Note that the strings given to deepLink map directly to the DataTables options. So search.regex is expected to be a boolean.

Allan

trongart

This works! Thank you @allan