I have the following example to get XML response from Ajax call and appending to table.
$("#ajaxform5").submit(function(e) {
var formURL = $(this).attr("action");
var request = $.ajax({
url : formURL,
type: "GET",
contentType : "application/xml",
headers: {
"Type" : "events"
},
success: function(xml){
$(xml).find('event').each(function(){
var $event = $(this);
var id = $event.find("id").text();
var level = $event.find("level").text();
var name = $event.find("name").text();
var attributes01 = $event.find("attributes").children("entry").eq(0).children("string").eq(0).text();
var attributes02 = $event.find("attributes").children("entry").eq(0).children("string").eq(1).text();
var attributes11 = $event.find("attributes").children("entry").eq(1).children("string").eq(0).text();
var attributes12 = $event.find("attributes").children("entry").eq(1).children("string").eq(1).text();
var attributes21 = $event.find("attributes").children("entry").eq(2).children("string").eq(0).text();
var attributes22 = $event.find("attributes").children("entry").eq(2).children("string").eq(1).text();
var attributes31 = $event.find("attributes").children("entry").eq(3).children("string").eq(0).text();
var attributes32 = $event.find("attributes").children("entry").eq(3).children("string").eq(1).text();
var attributes41 = $event.find("attributes").children("entry").eq(4).children("string").eq(0).text();
var attributes42 = $event.find("attributes").children("entry").eq(4).children("string").eq(1).text();
var userId = $event.find("userId").text();
var ipaddress = $event.find("ipaddress").text();
var outcome = $event.find("outcome").text();
var html = '<tr><td>' + id + '</td><td>' + level + '</td><td>' + name + '</td><td>' +
'<div><span class="title">' + attributes01 + '</span> <span>' + attributes02 + '</span></div>' +
'<div><span class="title">' + attributes11 + '</span> <span>' + attributes12 + '</span></div>' +
'<div><span class="title">' + attributes21 + '</span> <span>' + attributes22 + '</span></div>' +
'<div><span class="title">' + attributes31 + '</span> <span>' + attributes32 + '</span></div>' +
'<div><span class="title">' + attributes41 + '</span> <span>' + attributes42 + '</span></div>' +
'</td><td>' + userId + '</td><td>' + ipaddress + '</td><td>' + outcome + '</td></tr>';
$('#eventTable').append(html);
});
},
error: function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {
alert(textStatus);
}
});
});
Now I want to use Datatables. So I convert response XML to JSON with xml2json(abdmob/x2js) and I got the JSON response below.
JSON response;
{
"list" : {
"event" : [{
"dateTime" : "1473858435162",
"nanoTime" : "438326047248251",
"id" : "15680",
"eventTime" : {
"time" : "1473851193487",
"timezone" : "Asia/Istanbul"
},
"level" : "INFORMATION",
"name" : "Get message content",
"attributes" : {
"entry" : [{
"string" : ["metaDataIds", "6"]
}, {
"string" : ["messageId", "2765"]
}, {
"string" : ["channel", "Channel[id=44ab0667-d42c-496c-bca2-2bd7eecd6dc9,name=API jQuery Direct]"]
}
],
"_class" : "linked-hash-map"
},
"outcome" : "SUCCESS",
"userId" : "1",
"ipAddress" : "127.0.0.1",
"serverId" : "f85e48e2-32b3-429f-bee5-31630d8143a2"
}, {
"dateTime" : "1473858435167",
"nanoTime" : "438326052034149",
"id" : "15679",
"eventTime" : {
"time" : "1473851191973",
"timezone" : "Asia/Istanbul"
},
"level" : "INFORMATION",
"name" : "Get messages by page limit",
"attributes" : {
"entry" : [{
"string" : ["filter", "MessageFilter[maxMessageId=2765,minMessageId=<null>,originalIdUpper=<null>,originalIdLower=<null>,importIdUpper=<null>,importIdLower=<null>,startDate=<null>,endDate=<null>,textSearch=<null>,textSearchRegex=<null>,statuses=<null>,includedMetaDataIds=[6],excludedMetaDataIds=<null>,serverId=<null>,contentSearch=[],metaDataSearch=<null>,textSearchMetaDataColumns=<null>,sendAttemptsLower=<null>,sendAttemptsUpper=<null>,attachment=false,error=false]"]
}, {
"string" : ["includeContent", "false"]
}, {
"string" : ["offset", "0"]
}, {
"string" : ["limit", "21"]
}, {
"string" : ["channel", "Channel[id=44ab0667-d42c-496c-bca2-2bd7eecd6dc9,name=API jQuery Direct]"]
}
],
"_class" : "linked-hash-map"
},
"outcome" : "SUCCESS",
"userId" : "1",
"ipAddress" : "127.0.0.1",
"serverId" : "f85e48e2-32b3-429f-bee5-31630d8143a2"
}
]
}
}
So my first question, is this JSON response valid for DataTables?
If it is valid, how can I address objects and arrays to row / columns like in my first example?
I tried to insert JSON response to Datatables but I couldn't. You can see the result in the picture.
response added to rows char by char
I gave the code below for illustration only, you do not want to know how much I drooled to insert data.
I also tried columns.data option to read arrays but failed again.
$("#ajaxform6").submit(function(e) {
var formURL = $(this).attr("action");
var request = $.ajax({
url : formURL,
type: "GET",
contentType : "application/xml",
headers: {
"Type" : "events"
},
success: function(data, textStatus, jqXHR) {
var x2js = new X2JS();
var bXML = jqXHR.responseText;
var jsonObj = x2js.xml_str2json(bXML);
var json = JSON.stringify(jsonObj);
console.log(json);
$('#table_id').DataTable( {
data: json,
bSort: false,
} );
},
error: function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {
alert(textStatus);
}
});
});