Send entire data table to server

smunro

Hello,

I suspect this question has been put forward before, but for all the searching I've done. I've not really found a concrete example for what I'm looking for. It's very simple, I have a form containing a data table that uses datatable rowReorder. When a user re-orders rows, I have a button which I would like to take the updated table order and post it to the server (an asp.net mvc app). I'm guessing a json string is the way to go for serialization, but I just can't find any good examples on the exact code for extracting the data. For this table, it's all client side, so no server processing.

I have tried datatableInstance.data(), but when using that in an alert, I don't seem to see the data I'm looking for, so I'm assuming that is incorrect.

Any guidance on how to achieve the above would be appreciated.

Stephen

allan

Try datatableInstance.rows( { order: 'current' } ).data().toArray();. Does that contain what you are looking for?

Allan

smunro

Perfect, thanks for the quick reply! I've got the data required now