DataTable学习笔记

    如果有人用过jquery，而且用jquery去写一些有关于数据表格的前台页面，那么想必应该用过datatable这款控件，当然还有一款dataGridview的控件，也挺不错的，我是因为帮老师做一个项目，所以涉及到这个控件，当时就感觉挺强大的，我们用到了只是其中很少一部分功能，当初为了赶进度，也没有深入的去研究一下，那现在趁着刚开学课程很少，就花了点时间好好的研究了一些，接下来我应该会写几篇有关于datatable的学习笔记。

        因为国内资料很少，我也是下了官网的包，目前最新的DataTables-1.9.4，然后自己慢慢啃，都是英文，看得挺头疼的，我总结的也只是我认为重要的东西，最好的学习方法还是自己去DataTables-1.9.4docs下看，如果有人也对这款控件有所研究，欢迎分享，如果我有地方说的不对也希望大家积极指正，反正就是一句话，大家一起学习进步。

        因为我是一边研究一边把一些重要的东西写在word上的，然后汇总分几篇发表的，所以格式什么的没太注意，可能大家会看得有点累，那进入正题：     

 DataTable下有四个命名空间（namespace），分别是defaults，ext,models,oApi。

        Defaults：主要是用于初始化表格的一些选项。

        Ext：extension object，提供额外的表格选项

        Models：类模型容器，These models define the objects that are used to hold the active state and configuration of the table

        oApi： 一些其他人开发的额外函数，Reference to internal functions for use by plug-in developers

        1个静态变量 version，3个静态方法：fnIsDataTable，fnTables，fnVersionCheck。

           22个方法：

$(sSelector, oOpts) → {object}	Perform a jQuery selector action on the table's TR elements
_(sSelector, oOpts) → {array}	Almost identical to $ in operation
fnAddData(mData, bRedraw) → {array}     bRedraw是个bool值	Add a single new row or multiple rows of data to the table
fnAdjustColumnSizing(bRedraw)	This function will make DataTables recalculate（重新计算） the column sizes
fnClearTable(bRedraw)	Quickly and simply clear a table
fnClose(nTr) → {int}	The exact opposite of 'opening' a row, this function will close any rows which are currently 'open'.
fnDeleteRow(mTarget, fnCallBack, bRedraw) → {array}	Remove a row for the table
fnDestroy(bRemove)	Completely remove the table from the DOM
fnDraw(bComplete)	Redraw the table
fnFilter(sInput, iColumn, bRegex, bSmart, bShowGlobal, bCaseInsensitive)	Filter the input based on data
fnGetData(mRow, iCol) → {array|object|string}	Get the data for the whole table, an individual row or an individual cell based on the provided parameters.
fnGetNodes(iRow) → {array|node}	Get an array of the TR nodes that are used in the table's body.
fnGetPosition(nNode) → {int}	Get the array indexes of a particular cell from it's DOM element and column index including hidden columns
fnIsOpen(nTr) → {boolean}	Check to see if a row is 'open' or not.
fnOpen(nTr, mHtml, sClass) → {node}	This function will place a new row directly after a row which is currently on display on the page, with the HTML contents that is passed into the function.
fnPageChange(mAction, bRedraw) mAction   ：string | int                      Paging action to take: "first", "previous", "next" or "last" or page number to jump to (integer), note that page 0 is the first page.	Change the pagination - provides the internal logic for pagination in a simple API function
fnSetColumnVis(iCol, bShow, bRedraw)	Show a particular column
fnSettings() → {object}	Get the settings for a particular table for external manipulation
fnSort(iCol)	Sort the table by a particular column
fnSortListener(nNode, iColumn, fnCallback)	Attach a sort listener to an element for a given column
fnUpdate(mData, mRow, iColumn, bRedraw, bAction) → {int}	Update a table cell or row - this method will accept either a single value to update the cell with, an array of values with one element for each column or an object in the same format as the original data source.
fnVersionCheck(sVersion) → {boolean}	Provide a common method for plug-ins to check the version of DataTables being used, in order to ensure compatibility.

                           11个事件：

destroy	Destroy event, fired when the DataTable is destroyed by calling fnDestroy or passing the bDestroy:true parameter in the initialisation object.
draw	Draw event, fired whenever the table is redrawn on the page, at the same point as fnDrawCallback
filter	Filter event, fired when the filtering applied to the table (using the build in global global filter, or column filters) is altered.
init	DataTables initialisation complete event, fired when the table is fully drawn, including Ajax data loaded, if Ajax data is required.
page	Page change event, fired when the paging of the table is altered.
processing	Processing event, fired when DataTables is doing some kind of processing (be it, sort, filter or anything else).
sort	Sort event, fired when the sorting applied to the table is altered
stateLoaded	State loaded event, fired when state has been loaded from stored data and the settings object has been modified by the loaded data.
stateLoadParams	State load event, fired when the table is loading state from the stored data, but prior to the settings object being modified by the saved state - allowing modification of the saved state is required or loading of state for a plug-in
stateSaveParams	State save event, fired when the table has changed state a new state save is required.
xhr	Ajax (XHR) event, fired whenever an Ajax request is completed from a request to made to the server for new data

              接下来在defaults命名空间下包含三个命名空间columns，oLanguage，oSearch，以及58个static properties（静态选项），主要用于初始化      的，给几个重要的看一下。  

aaData :array	An array of data to use for the table, passed in at initialisation which will be used in preference to any data which is already in the DOM（就是给一些初始化数据）
aaSorting :array	You can define which column(s) the sort is performed upon, and the sorting direction, with this variable（初始化时选择排序的对象，如何排序，例如"aaSorting": [[2,'asc'], [3,'desc']]）
aLengthMenu :array	This parameter allows you to readily specify the entries in the length drop down menu that DataTables shows when pagination is enabled.（就是显示每页多少项，例如"aLengthMenu": [[10, 25, 50, -1], [10, 25, 50, "All"]]）
bJQueryUI :boolean	Enable jQuery UI ThemeRoller support（但是需要加一些文件，目前正在研究中）
bStateSave :boolean	Enable or disable state saving. When enabled a cookie will be used to save table display information such as pagination information, display length, filtering and sorting.（这个功能挺有用的）
fnDrawCallback :function	This function is called on every 'draw' event, and allows you to dynamically modify any aspect you want about the created DOM
fnHeaderCallback :function	This function is called on every 'draw' event, and allows you to dynamically modify the header row.
fnRowCallback :function	This function allows you to 'post process' each row after it have been generated for each table draw, but before it is rendered on screen.

                             在defaults命名空间下的columns命名空间下又有21个static properties（静态选项），选几个重要的看一下：

aDataSort :array	Allows a column's sorting to take multiple columns into account when doing a sort.（多项配合排序时有用）
asSorting :array	You can control the default sorting direction, and even alter the behaviour of the sort handler
bSearchable :boolean，bSortable :boolean， bVisible :boolean	这三个都差不多，看变量名就应该知道它们的意思了。
mData :string|int|function|null	This property can be used to read data from any JSON data source property, including deeply nested objects / properties.
mRender :string|int|function|null	和上面一个差不多，我觉得都是非常重要的函数，如果我要在表格中插入一些标签的，比如input，a，button等，就会用到，而且挺方便的。
sClass :string，sName :string，sTitle :string，sWidth :string	基础的东西，sClass为每个td设置一个class，sName：只能在dataTable服务端使用，sTitle就是表格header，swidth：调节每个td宽度

              在defaults命名空间下的oLanguage，oSearch命名空间下的变量，命名空间就不说了。

              在models命名空间下又有5个namespace，分别是ext，oColumn，oRow，oSearch，oSettings。如果有人也在看datatable的doc的话，                 我非常希望有人能具体的跟我说说这个models命名空间有什么作用，我只是有一个模糊的概念。

            在oApi命名空间下（Reference to internal functions for use by plug-in developers）是为了方便进行二次开发用的，有85个static methods，涵盖了defaults命名空间里所有的函数。

            ext命名空间由models命名空间下的ext继承了，所以所有内容都在models/ext下。

            看乱了吧，说实话我也乱了，然后我就总结了一些，画了一个思维导图

     

            好了，这样算是大体上看了一遍datatable的doc，当然我们只是初步的看了一下，如果要进行比较深入的二次开发，那models，ext，oApi这三个命名空间肯定还要深入的研究，但是我觉得一般的表格操作都可以了。那接下来我会看看datatable下的example，extra，多看看范例，实践一下，然后总结一下，可能新手在刚开始入门的时候会遇到下载下来的datatable各个文件夹都有哪些东西，如果开发需要引用哪些东西，其实有个思绪了，自己就可以慢慢的去研究，去开发。那我也会在下一篇说一下，好了，先就这样吧，接下来再继续深入。