Question

I am trying to avoid having to write the optinos array for each call to the plugin and I was wondering how can create one only shared options array to avoid this.

This could be applied to this call, for example:

$(document).ready( function() {
  $('#example').dataTable( {
    "oLanguage": {
      "oPaginate": {
        "sNext": ">"
      }
    }
  } );
} );

I have tried something like this but it doesn’t work:

$.dataTable.defaults = {
    "oLanguage": {
        "oPaginate": {
              "sNext": ">"
        }
     }
} 

You can find more about the options array Im trying to modify in here:
http://datatables.net/usage/i18n

Answer 1

Just create the object first, and you can pass it in at anytime you call the plugin.

var pluginDefaults = { 
    "oLanguage": {
        "oPaginate": { 
            "sNext": ">" 
        }
    }
};

And when ready to call the plugin, use it like this:

$('#example').dataTable( pluginDefaults );