Datatable named column - data-data="advisor.username"

[Nikolay Smirnov]

Hi Maciej,

Thanks for django-datatables-view, it is awesome feature!

I have some issue with returned object.

So, i have

<th data-data="advisor.username">{% trans "Advisor" %}</th>

My view always returns:

"advisor.username": "My name"

but following datatable docs must be a object

"advisor": {"username": "My name"}

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Or i am something do wrong?

Thanks

[Nikolay Smirnov]

The best way is apparently to override "prepare_results" method?

[Nikolay Smirnov]

Maybe can be used in project django-datatables-view

def prepare_results(self, qs):
    data = []
    for item in qs:
        for col_data in self.columns_data:
            value = self.render_column(item, col_data['data'])
            # Deep object value
            for part in reversed(col_data['data'].split('.')):
                value = { part: value }
            row.update(value)
        # row = {col_data['data']: self.render_column(item, col_data['data']) for col_data in self.columns_data}
        data.append(row)
    return data

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