Datatable Parser

A request parser for jquery datatable server-side processing request.

API

parser(datatablesRequest: Object) -> Object

Where datatablesRequest is the request body (or mostly query string) sent by jquery datatables to the server.

Output description:

• search: Array<Object>- Array of key-value pairs where the key is the column name and the value is the search value.
• order: Array<Array> - Array of arrays which follows the [column_name, ordering_direction] format. Where ordering_direction is either asc or desc.
• columns: Array<String> - Array of column names.
• start: Number - Offset of requested data.
• length: Number - Length of requested data.

How To Use

This example assumes that you're using express and the request is sent with GET method. You can replace req.query with req.body if the datatables use POST instead of GET.

const parser = require('datatable-parser');
/* ... */
/* Inside express middleware */
const parsedRequest = parser(req.query);
/* Do something with parsedRequest */

Testing

git clone https://github.com/alwint3r/datatable-parser.git
cd datatabe-parser
npm test

License

The MIT License (MIT) Copyright (c) 2016

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