sails-hook-datatable

A sails hook for working with Jquery datatables.

Install

npm i sails-hook-datatable --save

Support

This hook supports jquery DataTables 1.10+. If your working with a legacy version, see https://datatables.net/manual/server-side#Legacy for congiuration.

Usage

Send a GET or POST to /datatable/:model to use

NOTE: Always set column.data as showing in example below as sails.js Always respond with an array of object [{"name":"foo"}, {"name":"bar"}]] not literals like [["boy","foo"], ["girl","bar"]]. You can also set column.data = country.state.city where country is the column name. This would be handle well by both this hook and datatable.

//Example where *account* is the model name


//ajax
$('#example').DataTable( {
    serverSide: true,
    ajax: {
        url: '/datatable/account',
        type: 'POST'
    },
    "columns": [
            { "data": "name" },
            { "data": "country.state"}
        ]
} );

//response
{
    "draw": 1,
    "recordsTotal": 57,
    "recordsFiltered": 57,
    "data": [
        {name: 'Damian', country: {state: "New york"}},
        {name: 'Sam', country: {state: "Benin"}},
        {name: 'Robophil', country: {state: "London"}},
        {name: 'Ovie', country: {state: "Paris"}}
    ]
}

To view attributes in a model, send a GET to /datatable/column-names/:model to fetch the attributes for that model. See response below

{ columns: [
    'id', 'firstname', 'lastname'
]}

Issues or Missing implementation

Create an issue to mention a bug or feature request. Fixed something? Send a PR

Liscence

MIT