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• allan Posts: 63,212Questions: 1Answers: 10,415 Site admin

  April 2015

  Can i custom parse the JSON response?

  Use, use columns.data to tell DataTables what object property to read for each column.

  Perhaps if you could show an example of your JSON I might be able to provide a little more help.

  Allan
• blacar Posts: 2Questions: 1Answers: 0

  April 2015 edited April 2015

  Thanks Allan,

  I need to consume HAL formatted responses like you can see below. If you are not familiar with HAL format it has three sections: 1st links that we can overpass, 2nd instant values and 3rd _embedded entities that holds also values we want to see.

  My problem it's with _embedded values ... i have no clear how to do that mapping

  The example is:

  {
      "_links": {
          "self": { "href": "/orders" },
          "curies": [{ "name": "ea", "href": "http://example.com/docs/rels/{rel}", "templated": true }],
          "next": { "href": "/orders?page=2" },
          "ea:find": {
              "href": "/orders{?id}",
              "templated": true
          },
          "ea:admin": [{
              "href": "/admins/2",
              "title": "Fred"
          }, {
              "href": "/admins/5",
              "title": "Kate"
          }]
      },
      "currentlyProcessing": 14,
      "shippedToday": 20,
      "_embedded": {
          "ea:order": [{
              "_links": {
                  "self": { "href": "/orders/123" },
                  "ea:basket": { "href": "/baskets/98712" },
                  "ea:customer": { "href": "/customers/7809" }
              },
              "total": 30.00,
              "currency": "USD",
              "status": "shipped"
          }, {
              "_links": {
                  "self": { "href": "/orders/124" },
                  "ea:basket": { "href": "/baskets/97213" },
                  "ea:customer": { "href": "/customers/12369" }
              },
              "total": 20.00,
              "currency": "USD",
              "status": "processing"
          }]
      }
  }
  
• allan Posts: 63,212Questions: 1Answers: 10,415 Site admin

  April 2015

  If you are not familiar with HAL format

  Not at all - thanks for your introduction to it.

  My problem it's with _embedded values ... i have no clear how to do that mapping

  What do you want to get out of it. Is each ea:order a row in the table? If so then use ajax.dataSrc and set it to be _embedded.ea:order.

  Allan