I was working through a book knockout blueprints where the author shows a way to custom bind a jquery datatable. however I am having a bit of difficulty adding a new row. here is the fiddle when you fill in the form and hit add the data table becomes empty. http://jsfiddle.net/LkqTU/33382/
I believe the datatable is not successfully destroyed and recreated.
here is the custom binding.
ko.bindingHandlers.dataTable = {
init: function(element, valueAccessor, allBindingsAccessor) {
var value = valueAccessor(),
allBindings = ko.utils.unwrapObservable(allBindingsAccessor()),
options = allBindings.dataTableOptions || {},
$element = $(element);
$element.dataTable(options);
ko.utils.domNodeDisposal.addDisposeCallback(element, function() {
$element.dataTable().fnDestroy();
});
value.subscribe(function(oldValue) {
console.log('one');
$element.dataTable().fnDestroy();
$element.find("tbody tr").remove();
}, null, "beforeChange");
value.subscribe(function() {
console.log('two');
$element.dataTable(options);
}, null);
}
}
you can run the entire snippet below, or use the fiddle above. thanks
ko.bindingHandlers.dataTable = {
init: function(element, valueAccessor, allBindingsAccessor) {
var value = valueAccessor(),
allBindings = ko.utils.unwrapObservable(allBindingsAccessor()),
options = allBindings.dataTableOptions || {},
$element = $(element);
$element.dataTable(options);
ko.utils.domNodeDisposal.addDisposeCallback(element, function() {
$element.dataTable().fnDestroy();
});
value.subscribe(function(oldValue) {
$element.dataTable().fnDestroy();
$element.find("tbody tr").remove();
}, null, "beforeChange");
value.subscribe(function() {
$element.dataTable(options);
}, null);
}
}
function employee(id, firstName, lastName, phone, dept) {
var self = this;
this.id = ko.observable(id);
this.firstName = ko.observable(firstName);
this.lastName = ko.observable(lastName);
this.phone = ko.observable(phone);
this.dept = ko.observable(dept);
}
function model() {
var self = this;
this.employees = ko.observableArray([
new employee('1', 'Joe', 'Smith', '333-657-4366', 'IT')
]);
this.id = ko.observable('');
this.firstName = ko.observable('');
this.lastName = ko.observable('');
this.phone = ko.observable('');
this.dept = ko.observable('');
this.add = function() {
self.employees.push(new employee(
this.id(), this.firstName(), this.lastName(), this.phone(), this.dept()
));
// console.log(ko.toJSON(self.employees))
}
}
var mymodel = new model();
$(document).ready(function() {
ko.applyBindings(mymodel);
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.13/js/jquery.dataTables.min.js"></script>
<link href="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.13/css/jquery.dataTables.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/knockout/3.2.0/knockout-min.js"></script>
<table data-bind="dataTable: employees">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Id</th>
<th>First</th>
<th>Last</th>
<th>Phone</th>
<th>Dept</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody data-bind="foreach: employees">
<tr>
<td data-bind="text: id"></td>
<td data-bind="text: firstName"></td>
<td data-bind="text: lastName"></td>
<td data-bind="text: phone"></td>
<td data-bind="text: dept"></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p style="padding-top: 20px;">
Id:
<input data-bind="textInput: id" />
</p>
<p>
First:
<input data-bind="textInput: firstName" />
</p>
<p>
Last:
<input data-bind="textInput: lastName" />
</p>
<p>
phone:
<input data-bind="textInput: phone" />
</p>
<p>
dept:
<input data-bind="textInput: dept" />
</p>
<p>
<input type="button" value="add employee" data-bind="click: add" />
</p>
The problem I saw with your first one is that you did not update the html table after you destroyed the DataTable.
I updated the second subscript here: http://jsfiddle.net/bindrid/LkqTU/33392/
value.subscribe(function(rowData) {
var $tb = $element.find("tbody");
$.each(rowData, function(idx, item) {
$tb.append("<tr><td>" + item.id() + "</td><td>" + item.firstName() + "</td><td>" + item.lastName() + "</td><td>" + item.phone() + "</td><td>" + item.dept() + "</td></tr>");
});