[Feature Request] Way to retrieve (watch) the filtered Items from the searchTableItems function of a VDataTable?

Problem to solve

How to retrieve (watch) the filtered Items from the searchTableItems function of a VDataTable? For e.g. with

    mounted: function () {
            this.$watch(
                "$refs.tableRefName.items",
                 (new_value, old_value) => (this.searchData = new_value)
            );
    },

$refs.tableRefName.items returns all items of the table, although I filtered the Data Table Items using a standard search input field and seeing the filtered results with

<v-data-table  :search="search" ...

“$refs.tableRefName.items” still contains all (unfilterd) items.

Proposed solution

I was hoping to find something like “$refs.tableRefName.filteredItems” or “$refs.tableRefName.searchTableItems” to retrieve the filtered Items but didn’t.

Cheers Tim

[PushyPants]

Until it there is an official solution, I was able to find the search results nested in the refs.

$refs.refName.$children[0].filteredItems

[klukiyan]

I’m also looking at server side pagination, which would solve the issue, but of course then search goes out the window

You can sort, paginate, and filter server-side.

I don’t know why this issue has been left open for so long @current-items was added in #5737 and is emitted whenever computedItems changes.

@current-items doesn’t help as it shows only items on the page. More useful would be something like @filtered-items to access all filtered items regardless if they are on the page 1 or else.