Passing Parameter in URL to DataTables controllers

trlt48

I'm working on a server side processing DataTables (with Spring MVC), the following works as expected:

URL: http://localhost:8080/directory.html

datatable.js
$(document).ready( function () {
var table = $('#directoryTable').DataTable({
serverSide: true,
ajax: {
"url": "/employees",
.....
}
});

controller:
@RestController
public class EmployeeRestController {
@RequestMapping(value = "/employees", method = RequestMethod.POST)
@ResponseBody
public String listEmployeePaginated(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, Model model) {
.....
}
}

Questions: How to process the same URL with an added parameter:
http://localhost:8080/directory.html?affiliation=student

I can't figure out how to pass the parameter (affiliation=student) to datatable.js to be received and processed by the controller?

New to Spring MVC and DataTables. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

allan

I can't help you with the Spring part, but if you want to pass a query string along in an Ajax request you can use ajax.data along with window.location's search parameter.

Allan

trlt48

Thanks for the hints! Using your suggestions solved the problem that I've been struggling with!