DataTables - Server-side

by abhijeetkarve

HTML

<script src="//cdn.datatables.net/1.10.6/js/jquery.dataTables.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="//cdn.datatables.net/1.10.6/css/jquery.dataTables.css">
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery-mockjax/1.6.2/jquery.mockjax.min.js"></script>
<table id="example" class="display" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
    <thead>
        <tr>
            <th>ID</th>
            <th>Name</th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
</table>

JavaScript

// FOR DEMONSTRATION ONLY
// AJAX emulation 
$.mockjax({
    url: '/test/0',
    responseTime: 200,
    response: function(settings){
        var val = settings.data.start;
        this.responseText = {
            data: {
                data: [],
                draw: settings.data.draw,
                recordsTotal: 1000,
                recordsFiltered: 1000                
            }
        };
            
        for(var i = 0; i < settings.data.length; i++){
            this.responseText.data.data.push(["A" + (i + settings.data.start + 1), i]);
        }
    }
});

var table = $("#example").DataTable({
		processign:true,
     serverSide: true,
     ajax: {
         url: "/test/0",
         dataSrc: function(json){
            json.draw = json.data.draw;
            json.recordsTotal = json.data.recordsTotal;
            json.recordsFiltered = json.data.recordsFiltered;
            
            return json.data.data;
         }
     }
});