leon - Incomplete features?

allan

Re-ported from the 'Support levels' thread, to it's own thread:

Allan,
We heard great stuff about this dataTables and are considering its use for our new system.
However, I also hear and see on the forums that you don't always know if a feature is supposed to work or it works only on paper.
For example, it seems like the API functionality does not work with server-side processing. Is it true? Where can we confirm? http://datatables.net/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=1417&page=1#Item_4
Is there anywhere a list of features currently NOT operational?
Regards,
Leon

allan

Hi Leon,

As far as I am aware, DataTables is fully feature complete at the moment. Obviously I have plans for new features in future versions, and I'm aware of a couple of small bugs at the moment - but no feature is incomplete. Indeed I'm going to be making a release of DataTables 1.6.2 soon, which will take care of all the bugs I'm aware of.

Regarding the API functionality with server-side processing - yes to some extent this will not work in the same way as client-side processing, but it is designed this way (I'll add a note to the API documentation page about server-side processing shortly and tidy the page up for this).

The reason it is designed like this is that DataTables doesn't know anything about your data source on the server-side, so calling fnAddData won't work (different interaction is needed for ColdFusion from Rails CGI to PHP etc). Rather you need to update the database (a trivial XHR call will do it) and refresh the table.

Does this address your question sufficiently?

Regards,
Allan