Plug-in example for options?

Loren Maxwell

I've made a couple of plug-ins for the api, but is there an example of a plug-in to add options?

I have several tables that are "static" in the sense that I want to show the table without the user having the ability to interact with the table.

For those tables I end up repeating this since the defaults for these are true:

{
    ....
    info: false,
    ordering: false,
    paging: false,
    searching: false,
    ....
}

It would be nice if I could simply enter this:

{
    ....
    static: true,
    ....
}

and then have DataTables set info, ordering, paging, and searching to false before the table is initialized.

Is there anything I could be pointed to that would help me start?

kthorngren

Sounds like you want to set default options.

Kevin

Loren Maxwell

Thanks, Kevin (@kthorngren), that's one option, but I only want to make about a third of my tables "static" so I'd be back to the same issue of setting those options for the other tables.

I'm sure there's a way to approach it the way I'm thinking, but I just don't see an example.

kthorngren

You could combine two configuration objects together, something like this:

var staticOptions = {
    info: false,
    ordering: false,
    paging: false,
    searching: false,
};

var tableOptions = {
  select: true
};

var table = new DataTable('#example', 
  $.extend( staticOptions, tableOptions )
);

https://live.datatables.net/kotudavi/1/edit

Or you can do something like this;

var staticOptions = {
    info: false,
    ordering: false,
    paging: false,
    searching: false,
};


var table = new DataTable('#example', 
  {
    ...staticOptions,
    select: true
  }
);

https://live.datatables.net/qukogezu/1/edit

Its more a. Javascript exercise than Datatables. You just need to find your favorite way to combine two Javascript objects.

Kevin

Loren Maxwell

Oooh -- I like that second option!

I was trying something like that before but was leaving out the ... part and it obviously wouldn't work!

As always, thanks Kevin!