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You have server side. processing enabled but it doesn't sound like your server scrip tis following the Server Side Processing protocol. Datatables expects certain Returned data to know how much data…

Just make sure your server script returns the expected response data so datatables knows the number of records, etc.

That suggests to me that all.php isn't returning the data that DataTables expects.

When you enable server side processing the server scrip tis responsible for performing the sort, searching and paging functions. None of these will work client side. The client side will send reque…

I haven't used server side processing with Django and haven't used the rest framework you linked to. You can take a look at the django-serverside-datatable 1.0.0 library to see what they have done. …

Sorry I misunderstood. I thought you were wanting to use jQuery ajax() not the ajax option. The ajax docs state that the success function shouldn't be used.

Maybe the problem is, that my json actually returns only 25 records at a time, which is the page size, but I return recordsTotal:31164, recordsFiltered:31164.

Then I run a search, which returns only 4 records, DataTables hides the pagination controls, that is fine, too few records for pagination

The documentation for DT_RowId, DT_RowClass, DT_RowData, and DT_RowAttr is here: https://datatables.net/manual/server-side#Returned-data

$("#returnedData").append("<p>" + myobj.data[0].name +"<br />" + myobj.data[0].position +"</p>");

https://datatables.net/manual/server-side#Returned-data

According to the manual, DT expects the response to have certain values. However, if the server can't be made to change those parameters but does contain the information, how can I map the response …

This was a simple experiment to see what data is being sent to the server. I am not sure how to get the returned object (documentation states ajax.data option sends this info) and how to set up the me

The search plugin docs describe how to control which rows are displayed:

Although your data is a valid JSON string it is not in a structure that Datatables supports. This doc explains the supported structures:

https://datatables.net/manual/server-side#Returned-data

https://datatables.net/manual/server-side#Returned-data

https://datatables.net/manual/server-side#Returned-data

I'm wondering if the problem is that you have serverSide: true, but are returning 36 rows of data. With server side processing Datatables expects only the number of rows requested which corresponds …

https://datatables.net/manual/server-side#Returned-data