Column mData defined as a function not working

[stt]

With DataTables 1.10.3 and yadcf 0.8.4 when specifying datatable column's mData (or data) as a function, yadcf's appendFilters function throws an exception when it ends up trying to do split() on the function object here

A simple js that reproduces the issue:

$('#example').dataTable({
  data: [{}],
  columns: [
    {
     mData: function() { return "blah"; }
    }
  ]
})
.yadcf([
  {column_number : 0},
  ]
);

I'm not sure why the _aFilterData check is in it's own if-block so don't know if this introduces something new in another situation, but changing the code as follows fixes it for me:

            if (column_number_data === undefined) {
              col_inner_data = data[j]._aData[column_number];
            } else if (data[j]._aFilterData !== undefined && data[j]._aFilterData !== null) {
              col_inner_data = data[j]._aFilterData[column_number];
            } else {
              col_inner_data = dot2obj(data[j]._aData, column_number_data);
            }

[vedmack]

Thanks for the very detailed issue, gonna check/fix as soon as I can

[vedmack]

fixed in 0.8.5.beta.5, thanks

[SergioV85]

Hi! I've got similar problem on 0.8.9 version with latest DataTables 1.10.

I have next code

var table= $('#searchTable');
var tableSettings = [{
    "data": function (row) {
        var devId = row._source.hasOwnProperty('id') ? row._source.id : '';
        return '<a href=#>' + devId + '</a>';
    }
}];
dTable = table.DataTable({
    data: results,
    "columns": tableSettings
})
yadcf.init(dTable, [{ column_number: 0, filter_type: "text", column_data_type: "html", html_data_type: "text" }]);

result is JSON object, received from elasticsearch.
But, every time I receive next error:
dot_refs.split is not a function
When I tried to debug, I found that in function dot2obj(tmpObj, dot_refs) variable dot_refs is a function from tableSettings, and this is reason, why it can't be splitted

[vedmack]

Hi,

Please provide a jsbin sample to speed up the fix for this one.

[SergioV85]

Hi!
Here jsbin example

[SergioV85]

Hi! Any news?

[vedmack]

Ohhh.....

You must remove the "searching": false, because when it is set to false no filtering will be possible in datatables at all, in addition you should change from

column_data_type: "html", 
html_data_type: "text"

into

column_data_type: "rendered_html"

read docs about it...

p.s

see working sample