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ColumnDef's don't work when you use Ajax, thus you can cannot make your primary keys and such hidden, bummer

the "dataSrc" of the "ajax" object. Basically you'll need

dataTable is: $(document).ready(function() { $('#example').dataTable({ "ajax": "test.json", "columns": [ { "data": "name"

Ah, nice! You can add 'beforeSend' the same way in DataTables!!! :) Allan, could you add this to docs? 'ajax': { 'url': url, 'type': 'GET', 'beforeSend': function (request) { request.setRequestHeader("token", token); } }

I am not using ajax, but prepopulating the table-data

Thanks everyone. I got the answer. Here it is in case someone needs it in future. $('#example').dataTable( { "ajax": '../ajax/data/arrays.txt', "initComplete": function( settings, json ) { console.log(json); } } );

will always make an Ajax request to the server.

That doesn't work for me unfortunately. Description is still undefined because render finishes before the ajax call is called. Any other ideas? I'm using an MVC 5 application

like) you can use ajax.data to return a string: ajax: { url: ..., data: function ( d

$('#summary-contacts-table').dataTable({ ajax: { url: restURL, dataSrc: "" }, dom: "Tfrtip", bInfo: false, searching: false, paging: false, columns: [ {"data":"name_last", fnCreatedCell: function (nTd, sData, oData, iRow, iCol) { $(nTd).append(', '+oData['name_first']); } }, { "data": "role" } ] });