How to Bind to an Associative Object

AdrianSmithUK

Hi

http://jsfiddle.net/AdrianSmithUK/xkk4a7qc/4/

In the fiddle above there are two examples.

Example 1 is fine and the dataset looks like this:

var dataSet1 = [
    {"name":"jim", "age":3, "next":4}, 
    {"name": "bill", "age": 5, "next": 6}
];

Unfortunately I cant get Example 2 to work:

var dataSet2 = {
    "jim": {"age": 3, "next": 4},
    "bill": {"age": 5, "next": 6}
};

Is this possible?

Kind Regards,
Adrian Smith

allan

No - DataTables requires the data to be given in an array at the top level. The data source for each row can be either, but for the data set as a whole it must be an array.

You would need to convert the object to an array.

Allan

AdrianSmithUK

Many Thanks Allan

Robert Schutt of Experts Exchange proposed a conversion function:

It's posted here in case anybody else has the same problem.

http://jsfiddle.net/AdrianSmithUK/xkk4a7qc/6/

Kind Regards,
Adrian