Extract save state info from your plugins?

[marianopeck]

Hi Maca,

You plugins....are soooo cool that my users are not happy for "memorize" their changes only during their web sessions. I saw something about your RemoteStateSave, but I may want kind of implement that in my own app (because of some particular requirements like preferences etc). So...it would love so much if there could be a general API/function/extension whatsover, that allow me to ask to the table I have rendered the following info (or for each column, the following info):

• The order of the columns (or index in the table)
• The width of each column
• Wether each column has been pinned or not (if true, where... in left or side side..and in which order).

Basically...what I wonder is if I could get a list with that info, so that I can have all the info to persist user changes in my app/database and then re-use them later on and get back the "changes" of the user.

Would that be possible?

[maca88]

Basically RemoteState is a general plugin for saving state to a remote location. Here is an example:

Table initialization

$('example').DataTables(
{
    remoteState: {
        storeId: 'OrderGrid',
        getStatesFromServer: true,
        ajax: {
            'getAll': {
                url: 'url/getAll'
            },
            'save': {
                url: 'url/save'
            },
            'delete': {
                url: 'url/delete'
            },
            'setDefault': {
                url: 'url/setDefault'
            }
        }
    },
    dom: 'lfrBtip'
});

With the above example the RemoteState plugin will create a request to the getAll url ('url/getAll') for getting the state data.
The following data will be sent:

{
    action: 'getAll',
    data: null,
    stateName: null,
    storeId: 'OrderGrid'
}

The response should contain something like this:

{
    defaultState: 'Default',
    states: {
        state1: {...}
        state2: {...}
    }
}

When saving the current state the plugin will create a request to the save url ('url/save')
The following data will be sent:

{
    action: 'save',
    data: {...},
    stateName: 'state1',
    storeId: 'OrderGrid'
}

When deleting a state let say 'state1', the plugin will create a request to the delete url ('url/delete')
The following data will be sent:

{
    action: 'delete',
    data: null,
    stateName: 'state1',
    storeId: 'OrderGrid'
}

When setting the default state let say 'state1', the plugin will create a request to the setDefault url ('url/setDefault')
The following data will be sent:

{
    action: 'setDefault',
    data: null,
    stateName: 'state1',
    storeId: 'OrderGrid'
}

On save/delete/setDefault requests you have to save/delete/edit the data on your server. How you will handle that is up to you. For example you can store the states data in a file and the file content should look like this:

{
    OrderGrid: {
        defaultState: 'Default',
        states: {
            state1: {...}
            state2: {...}
        }
    },
    CustomerGrid: {
        defaultState: 'state1',
        states: {
            state1: {...}
            state2: {...}
        }
    },
}

Note: Each table should have a different storeId as it is the key for getting the right table states.

For a live example you can look HERE

[maca88]

If you dont want to use the RemoteState plugin, you have to use load/save callback provided by DataTables.

[marianopeck]

Hi Maca, quick question...the request that would be generated, is an ajax call or a HTTP request?

[maca88]

Ajax request.