Struggling to bind JSON data

themag87

I am struggling to bind the JSON data into a Datatable. This is my Javascript code.

$.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        data: $('#searchForm').serialize(),
        url: "/ReportingItem/Search",
        success: function (data) {
            $('#searchResults').DataTable({
                data: data,
                dataSrc: "",
                columns: [
                    { "data": "ID" },
                    { "data": "ItemContent" }
                ]
            });
        },
        error: function (xhr, ajaxOptions, thrownError) {
            if (xhr.status == 404) {
                alert(thrownError);
            }
        }

    });

This is my JSON

 "[{"ID":"3","ItemContent":"2nd Test"},{"ID":"4","ItemContent":"3rd Test"},{"ID":"9","ItemContent":"eeeeee"},{"ID":"11","ItemContent":"aaaa"}]"

You can see its a flat array. therefore I have used dataSRC="" so it doesn't look for "data" in the JSON

This is the error message I am getting

! DataTables warning: table id=searchResults - Requested unknown parameter 'ID' for row 0, column 0. For more information about this error, please see http://datatables.net/tn/4

Any help on the Syntax would be helpful!

Thanks

Chris

themag87

Just add in the data line

$('#searchResults').DataTable({
data: JSON.parse(data),
....
});