Can I use a function when working with nested object data?

dsnap

Looking at this, http://datatables.net/examples/ajax/objects_subarrays.html.
Using 1.10.3.

Instead of separating a nested array with commas I want to make a link.
<a href="linking/to/here/#{multiple.account_hash}">{multiple.name}</a>

var ajax = {
  "aaData":
     [ {
      "id":"1",
      "multiple": [ 
        [
           "name":"New 1",
           "account_hash":"826ab3413acb4b03af40d75412d21aaf"
        ]
      ]
    }]
}

allan

Sure - use columns.data to point to multiple and columns.render to create the link based on the data:

{
  data: 'multiple',
  render: function ( data, type, row ) {
    return type === 'display' ?
      '<a href="/whatever/'+data.account_hash+'">'+data.name+'</a>' :
      data.name;
  }
}

edit - you don't have to handle the display type specifically - DataTables would strip the HTML for sorting and filtering, but I think it is probably good practice.

Allan

dsnap

Threw you some money!

dsnap

Hmm, what if I also wanted "id" in the link?
I tried turning

data: 'multiple'

into

data: { 'multiple':'multiple', 'id':'id'}

but that seemed to put the entire response in each row...

allan

The row parameter (3rd one passed in) provides access to the full data source object, you could use row.id.

Equally, you could actually use row.multiple.account_hash if you wanted... :-)

Allan

dsnap

Thanks, Allan! Computers are hard!

allan

Its keyboards I have a problem with - when my head connects with them :-)

Allan