Question

I have a Java Web Project where I have a GET endpoint that I am hitting to retrieve JSON data. Firebug shows I am getting the JSON data in the form

[{"id":7,"serial":"7bc530","randomDouble":0.0,"randomDouble2":0.0,"randomDouble3":0.0,"date":1352228474000,"removed":null},
{"id":8,"serial":"4a18d27","randomDouble":0.0,"randomDouble2":0.0,"randomDouble3":0.0,"date":1352228474000,"removed":null},
{"id":9,"serial":"f30ef","randomDouble":0.0,"randomDouble2":0.0,"randomDouble3":0.0,"date":1352228474000,"removed":null},
{"id":10,"serial":"9e6d","randomDouble":0.0,"randomDouble2":0.0,"randomDouble3":0.0,"date":1352228474000,"removed":null},
{"id":11,"serial":"4d8665a3","randomDouble":0.0,"randomDouble2":0.0,"randomDouble3":0.0,"date":1352228474000,"removed":null},
{"id":12,"serial":"4fe1457","randomDouble":0.0,"randomDouble2":0.0,"randomDouble3":0.0,"date":1352228474000,"removed":null}]

On the HTML side I have this,

<table id="table_id">
   <thead>
      <tr>
      <th>id</th>
      <th>serial</th>
      <th>randomDouble</th>
      <th>randomDouble2</th>
      <th>randomDouble3</th>
      <th>date</th>
      <th>removed</th>
      </tr>
</thead>
 <tbody>
</tbody>
</table>

Here is what I have on the javascript side, I found another post from someone on here with this format that worked for them.

$(document).ready(function() {

    var Table = $("#table_id").dataTable({
       "bFilter":false,
       "bPaginate":false,
       "bProcessing": true,
       "bServerSide":true,
       "bInfo":false,
       "sAjaxSource": ApiUrl(),
       "fnServerData": function (sSource, aoData, fnCallback){
           $.ajax({
            "dataType": 'json',
               "type": "GET",
               "url": sSource,
               "data": aoData,
               "success": fnCallback
           }); 
       }
    });

The table is displaying the columns, but it isn’t pulling in the data. As I said, I did verify that the JSON data is getting sent to the webpage through Firebug — through the GET request this is making.

I find datatables to be extremely confusing and I can’t get this JSON to actually populate…

Any assistance would be very appreciated.

Edit:

I tried this,

var Table = $("#table_id").dataTable({
       "bFilter":false,
       "bPaginate":false,
       "bProcessing": true,
       "bServerSide":true,
       "bInfo":false,
       "sAjaxSource": ApiUrl(),
       "sAjaxDataProp": ""
    });

Answer 1

This should work for server side:

 var Table = $("#table_id").dataTable({
   "bFilter":false,
   "bPaginate":false,
   "bProcessing": true,
   "bServerSide":true,
   "bInfo":false,
    "aoColumns": [
    { "mData": "id" },
    { "mData": "serial" },
    { "mData": "randomDouble" },
    { "mData": "randomDouble2" },
    { "mData": "randomDouble3" },
    { "mData": "date" },
    { "mData": "removed" }

    ],
   "sAjaxSource": "url",
   "fnServerData": function ( sSource, aoData, fnCallback ) {
    $.getJSON( sSource, aoData, function (json) { 
        map = {}
        map["aaData"] = json
        fnCallback(map)
    } );
}
});

UPDATE regarding last comment:

"fnServerData": function ( sSource, aoData, fnCallback ) {
  $.getJSON( sSource, aoData, function (json) { 
        $.getJSON('second_json_url', function(secondjson) {
            $.each(secondjson, function(index, object) {
              json[index].serial = secondjson[index].name
            })
            map = {}
            map["aaData"] = json
            fnCallback(map)
        })
  });
}