Best way to purge/hard reset the table data?

growe19

I've noticed on the odd occassion my table displaying two sets of data from my ajax/json/localhost source. I'm pointing the fingure at the API app I'm using but to be sure I'd like to have a button for a hard reset of the table data.

Is it possible to have a button to reset the source?

        {
        text: 'Reset Table', 
        action: function ( e, dt, node, config ) { 

table.destroy();
    //how do i reload the same source I killed

        }
        },

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rf1234

You can just wrap the data table into a function. You call the function and the data table gets initialized. Just destroy it before you call the function again. Or do something like this:

var initDataTable = function() {
    if ( $.fn.DataTable.isDataTable( '#yourTable' ) ) {
         table.destroy();
    }
    ... init your data table ...
}

Alternatively you can add this option to your dt configuration. Then you can call the function as many times as you like. Your table always gets destroyed and rebuilt.

destroy: true

https://datatables.net/reference/option/destroy