General questions about Example #2

Example #2 deals with the use of object-based datatable rows in memory. I have a couple of questions about this example that I was unable to answer myself:

• Does adding, editing and deleting rows from the dataSet variable also update this variable?
• When adding and editing the console.log shows the new object. Can this be disabled?
• Similar to the situation above, the console.log writes a message, e.g., Missing AJAX configuration for INSERT. Does this mean we have to provide a function for INSERT, DELETE and UPDATE to update the dataSet variable?

Some background information on how I would like to use the editor. I got a dataset in a variable that I use to plot using a JS plotting library. I want to use this dataset into datatables in combination with the alt-editor. Since the dataset is in memory, I need the editor to update the contents of the variable dataset on all actions.

I figure that I can use the AJAX configuration also for the redrawing of the chart after an INSERT, DELETE or UPDATE action. But before that I need to know if the variable is updated by the plugin or I have to write code to do this myself.

[luca-vercelli]

Hello @schonhose . I’ll try to answer everything.

* Does adding, editing and deleting rows from the `dataSet` variable also update this variable?

Not sure of this, I think not. That variable is used only for initialization, it is not linked to the Datatable, AFAIK. Don’t rely on this.

When adding and editing the console.log shows the new object. Can this be disabled?

No it can’t. It’s some debug code that I forgot somewhere in the code. You can safely find and remove every “console.log” line in the script.

Similar to the situation above, the console.log writes a message, e.g., Missing AJAX configuration for INSERT. Does this mean we have to provide a function for INSERT, DELETE and UPDATE to update the dataSet variable?

Not exactly. You have to provide these functions (callbacks) if you want to update you backed - whatever it is. Usually you want call some a server, via AJAX (example n. 3). In your case, you can use these callbacks to update dataSet variable…

[schonhose]

This can be closed as far as I am concerned.