I am using Datatables in my application, but to fetch the data controller method is not getting triggered. I am able to render the table on UI, but the data is coming is NULL.
Here is my code
Imported items in SITE.MASTER
<link href="/Scripts/DataTables/media/css/demo_page.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="/Scripts/DataTables/media/css/demo_table.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
<script src="/Scripts/Lib/jquery-1.4.2.js" type="text/javascript" language="javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="/Scripts/DataTables/media/js/jquery.dataTables.js"></script>
Here is my HTML Looks
!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6946559/jqgrid-please-help</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
$(document).ready(function () {
$('#example').dataTable({
bProcessing: true,
sAjaxSource: '@Url.Action("GridData", "Home")'
});
});
</script>
</head>
<div id="dynamic">
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="display" id="example">
<thead>
<tr>
<th width="20%">Rendering engine</th>
<th width="25%">Browser</th>
<th width="25%">Platform(s)</th>
<th width="15%">Engine version</th>
<th width="15%">CSS grade</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</html>
Here how my JS file which loads HTML looks
var rptTabs = function () {
return {
Init: function () {
var placeholder = $("#rpt-tab");
placeholder.setTemplateURL("/Templates/Home/report.htm");
placeholder.load("/Templates/Home/report.htm");
}
}
} ();
Here how my Home controller method looks
public ActionResult GridData()
{
return Json(new
{
aaData = new[]
{
new [] { "Trident", "Internet Explorer 4.0", "Win 95+", "4", "X" },
new [] { "Gecko", "Firefox 1.5", "Win 98+ / OSX.2+", "1.8", "A" },
new [] { "Webkit", "iPod Touch / iPhone", "iPod", "420.1", "A" }
}
}, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
}
Please tell me what is wrong with my implementation.
The problem is related to the fact that you are using a server side helper (
Url.Action("GridData", "Home")
) inside a static HTML template since you have incorrectly copy-pastedmy solution from here
without adapting it to your scenario. Furthermore you are using the WebForms view engine and not Razor.So I would recommend you making this template an ASPX WebForm, served through a controller action which would allow you to use server side helpers inside.
And then you will have a corresponding view:
and then specify the correct path to this controller when loading the template (once again by using server side helper).