You can also fetch the data from a server using an Ajax call.
The angular-datatables provides the helper DTOptionsBuilder.withSource(sAjaxSource)
and the helper DTColumnBuilder that lets you build the datatables options for each column.
See the API for the complete list of methods of the helper.
angular.module('showcase.withAjax', ['datatables']).controller('WithAjaxCtrl', WithAjaxCtrl);
function WithAjaxCtrl(DTOptionsBuilder, DTColumnBuilder) {
var vm = this;
vm.dtOptions = DTOptionsBuilder.fromSource('data.json')
.withPaginationType('full_numbers');
vm.dtColumns = [
DTColumnBuilder.newColumn('id').withTitle('ID'),
DTColumnBuilder.newColumn('firstName').withTitle('First name'),
DTColumnBuilder.newColumn('lastName').withTitle('Last name').notVisible()
];
}
data.json
[{
"id": 860,
"firstName": "Superman",
"lastName": "Yoda"
}, {
"id": 870,
"firstName": "Foo",
"lastName": "Whateveryournameis"
}, {
"id": 590,
"firstName": "Toto",
"lastName": "Titi"
}, {
"id": 803,
"firstName": "Luke",
"lastName": "Kyle"
},
...
]