DataTables ajax.reload() with parameters

Question

I am using DataTables serverSide in an Angular2 project.

I am trying to reload the table after making changes, and those changes I want to pass them as parameters in POST via AJAX.

The thing is that DataTables is always getting the options object from the initialization, and not an updated version with the new parameters.

So, what I need is, to use ajax.reload() passing a new set of parameters.

This is my current function:

filterData(tableParams) {
    console.log('reloading DT. tableparams received are: ' + JSON.stringify(tableParams));

    let element = $(this.el.nativeElement.children[0]);
    let table = element.find('table.dataTable');
    table.DataTable().ajax.reload();
}

At the moment, as you can see, I'm not using tableParams, this is because I wanted to show a clean version of my function, I tried many things and none of them worked.

DataTables always gets the initial options object, with the initial parameters.

This is one of my desperate attempts:

filterData(tableParams) {
    let element = $(this.el.nativeElement.children[0]);
    let table = element.find('table.dataTable');
    table.DataTable({
        ajax: {
            url: this.jsonApiService.buildURL('/test_getUsers.php'),
            type: 'POST',
            data: tableParams,
        },
    }).ajax.reload();
}

Some help would be much appreciated. If you need further explanations on how the DataTable is created, or more code snippets let me know. But I think that the issue is just with the ajax.reload() function, being able to send updated parameters will solve the issue.

Thanks very much!

Edit 1

This is my init options object:

            let data = {
                email: true,
                test: 'init',
            };

            this.options = {
                dom: 'Bfrtip',
                processing: true,
                serverSide: true,
                pageLength: 20,
                searchDelay: 1200,
                ajax: {
                    url: this.jsonApiService.buildURL('/test_getUsers.php'),
                    type: 'POST',
                    data: data,
                },
                columns: [
                    {data: 'userId'},
                    {data: 'userCode'},
                    {data: 'userName'},
                    {data: 'userRole'},
                    {data: 'userEmail'},
                ],
            };

And these are the parameters that DataTables is sending:

(Among other DataTables parameters)

When I call ajax.reload(), no matter the things I have tried, I end up sending these same parameters, therefore, sending the init parameters.

Answer 1

I finally got the solution, the problem was that I was too focused on achieving my goal through DataTable().ajax.reload(). I wanted to pass the parameters through there in one way or another, and that was incorrect.

I had to change the construction of the options object. As you saw earlier, I was assigning my custom parameters to the options object like this:

ajax: {
  url: this.jsonApiService.buildURL('/test_getUsers.php'),
  type: 'POST',
  data: this.params,
}

Where data: this.params would get the data from somewhere, in my case, I had 2 listeners, one for init and another for updating that change this.params value. This, instead of a listener could be an onChange(), but the point is that the parameters change at runtime.

So I simply had to put this into a function, and merge DataTable's parameters to my own parameters.

This is my solution:

data: function (d) {
    Object.assign(d, myClass.params);
    return d;
}

With this options object, when I have to refresh the DataTable sending new parameters to the server, I simply call ajax.reload(). DataTables will get the options object with the latest data and reload itself.

I really hope this can help someone! Good work and happy coding!