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• allan Posts: 63,208Questions: 1Answers: 10,415 Site admin

  September 2016

  Is it possible to have multiple values with a same key using ajax.data (or any other) option and without adding brackets?

  This is really a jQuery question, rather than DataTables, but as far as I am aware, no it isn't possible. You might have more luck asking in a jQuery specific forum though.

  Allan
• gagarski Posts: 4Questions: 2Answers: 0

  September 2016 edited September 2016

  This is really a jQuery question

  Wow, I really did not know that jQuery $.ajax function serializes AJAX data with brackets by default. Thanks.

  After reading jQuery documentation I have found $.param() function and traditional param.
  Using the traditional param and the fact that Datatables' ajax.datacan return string instead of object I came up with the following solution:

  {
    // ...
    "ajax": {
      "url": "{{ datatable_url }}",
      "data": function (d) {
        var formData = $("#filter-form").serializeArray();
        var filterFormData = {}; // string -> list<string> map for filter form
  
        // Generating multimap to serialize in traditional way
        for (var i in formData) {
          var field = formData[i];
          var existing = filterFormData[field["name"]];
          if (existing) {
            existing.push(field["value"]);
            filterFormData[field["name"]] = existing;
          } else {
            filterFormData[field["name"]] = [field["value"]];
          }
        }
        // Adding filter form data, serialized in traditional way, to Datatables data, serialized in non-traditional way
        return $.param(d) + "&" + $.param(filterFormData, true);
      }
    }
    // ...
  }
  

  Now both Django forms and server side search/order code are happy with request data!
• allan Posts: 63,208Questions: 1Answers: 10,415 Site admin

  September 2016

  Awesome - thanks for posting back with your solution. Good to hear you've got it working.

  Allan