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• kthorngren Posts: 20,425Questions: 26Answers: 4,794

  March 2023

  I believe this FAQ describes your issue.

  Kevin
• matthean Posts: 10Questions: 3Answers: 0

  March 2023

  It got me past that error. I ran it again and got an error saying, Uncaught SyntaxError: "[object Object]" is not valid JSON." I went and did a console.log to find what the type was and then added in a 'data = JSON.stringify(data)' statement. I reran it and I now get an error saying "Cannot use 'in' operator to search for 'length'" I feel like I am in a bit of Catch-22 in terms of what type it need to be. Here's the code and it blows up in the each statement area.

  var i = 0;
              var j = [];
  
              var dataSet = JSON.parse(data);
  
              $.each(dataSet, function (key, value1) {
                  $.each(value1, function (key, value) {
                      j[i] = value;
                      i++;
                  });
                  table.row.add([null,j[0], j[1], j[2], j[3], j[4]]).draw();
                  i = 0;
                  j = [];
              });
  
• kthorngren Posts: 20,425Questions: 26Answers: 4,794

  March 2023

  Its hard to say without seeing what you have. Can you post an example of your dataSet variable?

  Kevin
• matthean Posts: 10Questions: 3Answers: 0

  March 2023

  response JSON: {d: Array(1)}
  response text: "{\"d\":[{\"DocumentNumber\":\"AOP@20070724-090230\",\"
• kthorngren Posts: 20,425Questions: 26Answers: 4,794

  March 2023

  Looks like your row data is object based. So you can use columns.data to define the columns. Then you should be able to use rows.add() with an s. Something like this:

  var dataSet = JSON.parse(data);
  
  table.rows.add( dataSet.d );
  

  Kevin
• matthean Posts: 10Questions: 3Answers: 0

  April 2023

  Sorry for the delay. I started to try and switch it over, but I kept getting the same error. Here's the complete function.

  $('#search').click(function () {
              var avzid = "";
              var authorfname = "";
              var authorlname = "";
              var generalsearch = "";
  
              avzid += $('#txtAuthorVZID').val();
              authorfname += $('#txtAuthorFname').val();
              authorlname += $('#txtAuthorLname ').val();
              generalsearch += $('#txtGenSearch').val();
  
              var data = $.ajax({
                  type: "POST",
                  contentType: "application/json; charset=unicode",
                  url: '<%= ("aop.aspx/GetData") %>',
                  data: "{'avzid': '" + avzid + "',  'authorfname': '" + authorfname + "','authorlname': '" + authorlname + "','generalsearch': '" + generalsearch + "'}",                
                  dataType: "json",
                  async: false
              })
  
              data = JSON.stringify(data)
  
              var table = $('#dtable').DataTable({
                  "retrieve": true,
                  "columnDefs": [
                      {
                          type: "html", "targets": [0],
                          "data": null
                      }
                  ]
              });
  
              table.clear().draw();
  
              var i = 0;
              var j = [];
  
              var dataSet = JSON.parse(data);
              table.rows.add(dataSet.d);
              console.log("Type Of: " + typeof (dataSet));
              console.log({ dataSet });
  
              $.each(dataSet, function (key, value1) {
                  $.each(value1, function (key, value) {
                      j[i] = value;
                      i++;
                  });
                  table.row.add([null,j[0], j[1], j[2], j[3], j[4]]).draw();
                  i = 0;
                  j = [];
              });
  
              columns: [
                          {
                              "className": 'dt-control',
                              "orderable": false,
                              "data": null,
                              "defaultContent": ''
                          },
                          { "data": "Document Number" },
                          { "data": "Author" },
                          { "data": "Title" },
                          { "data": "General Policy" },
                          { "data": "Description" }
              ]
          });
  
• kthorngren Posts: 20,425Questions: 26Answers: 4,794

  April 2023 edited April 2023

  var data = $.ajax({ .. });
  

  This returns the jqXHR object which contains more than just the response data. You will probably want to read up on how jQuery ajax() works. There are lots of tutorials explaining the basics of ajax.

  Use the success function to process the response data. And remove the async: false. I built a simple example to demonstrate.
  https://live.datatables.net/coqovinu/1/edit

  table.row.add([null,j[0], j[1], j[2], j[3], j[4]]).draw();
  

  This won't work as you are telling Datatables you have object based data with columns.data. See the Data Sources docs for details.

  { "data": "Document Number" },
  

  Make sure the columns.data string matches the JSON response. Your response looks like {\"DocumentNumber\":\"AOP@20070724-090230\". There is not a space between Document and Number.

  Kevin