Problems in loading datatables from ASP.NET web API

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I am trying to do searching filtering and sorting in web API using datatable js library. But nothing is showing up on load.

What I have tried:

At Layout.CSHTML

@Scripts.Render("~/bundles/lib")
    @RenderSection("scripts", required: false)
    
</body>

in Bundles.Config

bundles.Add(new ScriptBundle("~/bundles/lib").Include(
                        "~/Scripts/jquery-{version}.js",
                        "~/Scripts/bootstrap.js",
                        "~/scripts/bootbox.js",
                        "~/Scripts/respond.js",
                        "~/scripts/datatables/jquery.datatables.js",
                        "~/scripts/datatables/datatables.bootstrap.js"
                      ));

in main Index.html

<script>
       $(document).ready(function () {

           $("#customers").DataTable();



           $("#customers").on("click", ".js-delete", function () {
               var button = $(this);

               bootbox.confirm("Are you Sure you want to delete this customer?",function(result){

                   if(result){
                       $.ajax({

                           url: "/api/customers/" + button.attr("data-customer-id"),
                           method: "DELETE",
                           success: function () {
                               button.parents("tr").remove();



                           }



                       });

                   }
               });


           });


       });


   </script>

Posted 31-Jan-17 14:48pm

codegeekalpha

Updated 22-Aug-17 7:09am

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Nathan Minier 1-Feb-17 7:45am

You're not actually getting any data to populate a table. All you have here is a delete method.

j snooze 1-Feb-17 17:08pm

Agree with Nathan. Also you need an html object with the ID of "customers" (per your reference in the javascript). I don't see that in the index.html file either.

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sonymon mishra · Answer 1 · 2017-02-02T19:58:00

You Question is incomplete. You have asked for populating the records from WebApi to jQuery DataTable, But writing cde for deleting a row fro the DataTable.
The following code may work for pupulating the data (assuming Col1 and Col2 are two cloumns for the DataTable)


$("#customers").DataTable({
      serverSide: true,
      processing: true,
      columns : [
          { data : 'Col1' },
          { data : 'Col2' }
      ],    
      ajax: {
          url: /api/customers/" + button.attr("data-customer-id"),
          dataSrc : ''
      }
});

fatihkaratay · Answer 2 · 2017-08-22T07:09:00

Solution 2

DataTables requires a well-formed table. It must contain <thead> and <tbody> tags, otherwise it throws this error. Also, make sure that you have the same amount of <td> in your project.

Posted 22-Aug-17 7:09am

fatihkaratay