ajax.reload doesn't call the function defined in dataSrc

mj10cl

I have a data source on the server that's XML. When I do the initial load, the dataSrc function gets called to convert the XML to JSON. However, when I reload, the dataSrc function is not called again. The symptom is that the returned data set is reported to have syntax errors.

Example data source:

  <jobs name="this_job_name" jobdir="/path/to/jobs/this_job_name" jobid="318765" state="complete" result="pass" status="Correct state sequence detected">
</job>

DataTables call:

                var tableObject = $('#thetable').DataTable({
                  "ajax" : {
                    "url"       : file,
                    "dataType"  : "xml",
                    "cache"     : false,
                    "dataSrc" : function(xml) {
                      var json = new Array;

                      $(xml).find("jobs").each(function(index, element)
                      {
                        var job = new Object;

                        job.index = index;

                        var job_attributes = element.attributes;

                        for (var i = 0; i < job_attributes.length; i++)
                        {
                          job[job_attributes[i].nodeName] = job_attributes[i].nodeValue;
                        }

                        json.push(job);
                      });

                      return json;
                    },
                  },
                  columns : [
                    { data  : 'index' },
                    { data  : 'name' },
                    { data  : 'state' },
                    { data  : 'result' },
                    { data  : 'status' }
                  ]
                });

                window.setInterval(tableObject.ajax.reload(), 30000);

Error message:

SyntaxError: missing ] after element list[Learn More]
session_visualize.html:87:8
note: [ opened at line 87, column 0

How do I enforce reload to call dataSrc again? Why wouldn't it be called again if it had to be called the first time.

-Matt

kthorngren

The ajax.dataSrc is executed each time in this example:
http://live.datatables.net/kubedage/1/edit

I would suggest putting console log statements in your function to help debug. First to verify if its running every 30 seconds and next to monitor the data.

Kevin

mj10cl

The example as I have listed in the original post does not work, but interestingly it does work if I change the setInterval call to:

window.setInterval(function() {
  tableObject.ajax.reload();
}, 30000);

Not sure why each call has different results... Thanks for the update Kevin.

-Matt