Ajax call in ColumnDefs

Godrules500

Is there a way to do an ajax call in the ColumnDefs?

So the circumstance that I am in, I pass an ID to the view, then I need to, when it is rendering the value, do an ajax call so that I can get the description that belongs to the ID, so that I can display it as well.

Is this possible?

jrbulnes

Yes it is. I did it by calling a function that sets a global variable. In the function you do your second or other Ajax Call

{ "mData": null,
  "render": function ( data, type, full) {
    getDescription(data.ID);    // calling function to get Description

    if (typeof Description !== 'undefined') {
       return Description;
    }   
    else {
            return '-';
    }
  }
},

Godrules500

That doesn't work for me unfortunately. Description is still undefined because render finishes before the ajax call is called.

Any other ideas?

I'm using an MVC 5 application