Re: Django request.GET and jQuery Datatables

2014-07-25 Thread Andrea
OK, thanks! I won't use it for this specific case, but I'm sure it will be extremely helpful in the future. The logic you've shown can be applied in other different contexts. Andrea 2014-07-25 17:49 GMT+02:00 Tom Evans : > On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Andrea wrote: > > Thanks Tom, now I se

Re: Django request.GET and jQuery Datatables

2014-07-25 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Andrea wrote: > Thanks Tom, now I see your point. > As my API was crafted on the previous version of Datatables, and used only > for that purpose, I prefer just to replace it with the new one. > Had I already an API for whatever reason, I see the usefulness and the

Re: Django request.GET and jQuery Datatables

2014-07-25 Thread Andrea
Thanks Tom, now I see your point. As my API was crafted on the previous version of Datatables, and used only for that purpose, I prefer just to replace it with the new one. Had I already an API for whatever reason, I see the usefulness and the importance of your approach. I understand the logic, bu

Re: Django request.GET and jQuery Datatables

2014-07-25 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Andrea wrote: > Hi Tom, > > thanks for your answer. > I'm not sure I got it right, do you mean something like the following? > > class DataTablesForm(forms.Form): > def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): > super(DataTablesForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwa

Re: Django request.GET and jQuery Datatables

2014-07-25 Thread Andrea
Sorry, the code was a bit of a mess. The following works, although it seems to me that in principle I could think of better solutions, as the GET data is somehow well organized in an array and not plain as it is in my form class. class DataTablesForm(forms.Form): draw = forms.IntegerField()

Re: Django request.GET and jQuery Datatables

2014-07-25 Thread Andrea
Hi Tom, thanks for your answer. I'm not sure I got it right, do you mean something like the following? class DataTablesForm(forms.Form): def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): super(DataTablesForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) self.fields['_'] = forms.CharField() fo

Re: Django request.GET and jQuery Datatables

2014-07-25 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 7:07 AM, Andrea wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm trying to let Django being able to answer to requests by > jQuery-Datatables (http://datatables.net/). > Considering the example at this link > (http://www.datatables.net/examples/data_sources/server_side.html) to fill > up the jQu