From cbb3aac295fc2258b478b050bf66643b89646cd6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrick Yi <pyi@oitmain.com>
Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 09:49:50 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Add an option to decide to use $_POST or $_GET values
 depending on the request method

---
 src/DataTableAction.php | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/DataTableAction.php b/src/DataTableAction.php
index 8f726e1..df3f48c 100644
--- a/src/DataTableAction.php
+++ b/src/DataTableAction.php
@@ -22,6 +22,13 @@
  */
 class DataTableAction extends Action
 {
+    /**
+     * GET or POST
+     *
+     * @var string
+     */
+    public $requestMethod = "GET";
+
     /**
      * @var ActiveQuery
      */
@@ -50,24 +57,31 @@ public function init()
         }
     }
 
+    protected function getParam($name, $defaultValue = null)
+    {
+        return $this->requestMethod == 'GET' ?
+            Yii::$app->request->getQueryParam($name, $defaultValue) :
+            Yii::$app->request->getBodyParam($name, $defaultValue);
+    }
+
     public function run()
     {
         /** @var ActiveQuery $originalQuery */
         $originalQuery = $this->query;
         $filterQuery = clone $originalQuery;
-        $draw = Yii::$app->request->getQueryParam('draw');
+        $draw = $this->getParam('draw');
         $filterQuery->where = null;
-        $search = Yii::$app->request->getQueryParam('search', ['value' => null, 'regex' => false]);
-        $columns = Yii::$app->request->getQueryParam('columns', []);
-        $order = Yii::$app->request->getQueryParam('order', []);
+        $search = $this->getParam('search', ['value' => null, 'regex' => false]);
+        $columns = $this->getParam('columns', []);
+        $order = $this->getParam('order', []);
         $filterQuery = $this->applyFilter($filterQuery, $columns, $search);
         $filterQuery = $this->applyOrder($filterQuery, $columns, $order);
         if (!empty($originalQuery->where)) {
             $filterQuery->andWhere($originalQuery->where);
         }
         $filterQuery
-            ->offset(Yii::$app->request->getQueryParam('start', 0))
-            ->limit(Yii::$app->request->getQueryParam('length', -1));
+            ->offset($this->getParam('start', 0))
+            ->limit($this->getParam('length', -1));
         $dataProvider = new ActiveDataProvider(['query' => $filterQuery, 'pagination' => ['pageSize' => Yii::$app->request->getQueryParam('length', 10)]]);
         Yii::$app->response->format = Response::FORMAT_JSON;
         try {

From 22d49a26c5f4753454767806990d03ff5a9aff62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrick Yi <pyi@oitmain.com>
Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 10:23:53 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Add formatData and formatResponse for post data
 formatting

---
 src/DataTableAction.php | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/DataTableAction.php b/src/DataTableAction.php
index df3f48c..90ce666 100644
--- a/src/DataTableAction.php
+++ b/src/DataTableAction.php
@@ -50,6 +50,22 @@ class DataTableAction extends Action
      */
     public $applyFilter;
 
+    /**
+     * Format data
+     * Signature is following:
+     * function ($query, $columns)
+     * @var callable
+     */
+    public $formatData;
+
+    /**
+     * Format response
+     * Signature is following:
+     * function ($response)
+     * @var callable
+     */
+    public $formatResponse;
+
     public function init()
     {
         if ($this->query === null) {
@@ -89,12 +105,13 @@ public function run()
                 'draw' => (int)$draw,
                 'recordsTotal' => (int)$originalQuery->count(),
                 'recordsFiltered' => (int)$dataProvider->getTotalCount(),
-                'data' => $filterQuery->all(),
+                'data' => $this->formatData($filterQuery, $columns),
             ];
         } catch (\Exception $e) {
             return ['error' => $e->getMessage()];
         }
-        return $response;
+
+        return $this->formatResponse($response);
     }
 
     /**
@@ -143,4 +160,31 @@ public function applyOrder(ActiveQuery $query, $columns, $order)
         }
         return $query;
     }
+
+    /**
+     * @param ActiveQuery $query
+     * @param array $columns
+     * @return ActiveQuery
+     */
+    public function formatData(ActiveQuery $query, $columns)
+    {
+        if ($this->formatData !== null) {
+            return call_user_func($this->formatData, $query, $columns);
+        }
+
+        return $query->all();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @param array $response
+     * @return ActiveQuery
+     */
+    public function formatResponse($response)
+    {
+        if ($this->formatResponse !== null) {
+            return call_user_func($this->formatResponse, $response);
+        }
+
+        return $response;
+    }
 }