can row detail info got by ajax?

zh.chao163

hi,
i saw the example page,"http://datatables.net/1.5-beta/examples/api/row_details.html and changed the code as follows:

function fnFormatDetails ( nTr )
{
var iIndex = oTable.fnGetPosition( nTr );
var aData = oTable.fnSettings().aoData[iIndex]._aData;
var sOut;
$.get("/check/getCheckInfo.php", { "flowId": aData[1] },function(data){
sOut = data;
});
return sOut;
}

when i clicked the image to see the detail, what i can see is the message 'undefined' in the detail area ,however i have confirmed the data from the server is correct. what's wrong here? can the detail function support ajax ?

thanks a lot!

zh.chao163

aha, i know what's wrong here, and it works now anyway.

sobersp

What did you do to make it work ??

allan

Hi sobersp,

I'm guessing that the $.get() call in asynchronous, therefore the return of sOut is occurring before it is actually assigned in the callback function. One way around this is to make the call synchronous, another might be to use a poll/wait to see if the value has been assigned.

Regards,
Allan

pawel

What I did for this issue was call the fnOpen function in the call back function so u don't have to force the code to be synchronous and u can open more than one detail every time.

Regards,
Pawel.