Is there a way to render an ASP MVC view as a return of a AjaxSource?

theConartist

Is there a substitute that instead of rendering the json data in javascript, a new attribute in DataTablesData that contains a rendered html View? also, a DataTable class that handles the rendering?

And on the redraw of the table, renders the returned view?

I know I could use an Ajax call to render the table and call the .dataTable after but I do not know how to embed the dataTableParams capabilities this way.

allan

Assuming that it is returning HTML, then not built into the core. You would need to use ajax.dataSrc as a function and parse the HTML to built a Javascript array from the HTML.

Allan

theConartist

What I did was:

                fnServerData: function (sSource, aoData, fnCallback, oSettings) {
                var table = this;
                var renderRow = function (json) {
                    $(table[0]).find('tbody').html(json.view);
                    fnCallback(json);
                }

                oSettings.jqXHR = $.ajax({
                    "dataType": 'json',
                    "type": "POST",
                    "url": sSource,
                    "data": aoData,
                    "success": function (json) {
                        renderRow(json);
                    }
                })
            }

where the json returned is the DataTablesData and I added an attribute view that contains the html.

Now this error occurs "DataTables warning: Requested Unknown parameter '0' from the data source for row 0"

allan

What is the value of json that you are giving to fnCallback?

Allan

theConartist

 return new CustomDataTablesData
        {
            iTotalRecords = totalRecords,
            iTotalDisplayRecords = filteredData.Count() + param.iDisplayStart,
            sEcho = param.sEcho,
            aaData = result.Select(r => new { r.AlgoPreference.Algo.Name, r.AlgoPreference.DisplayName, r.Value }).Cast<object>().ToArray(),
            view = view
        };

allan

And what is the value of aaData? What is the result of the statement. It would be really useful if you could link to the page.

theConartist

edited - wrong post