How does getSourceData handle order?

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#1

I feed the json data into the table in one order, but I display the table in a different order. After I make a change to the table, if I log getSourceData(), the order of the new json data follows the order of how it was fed in, not how it is displayed.

I load the data in this order: date, lock, rooms_sold
but I display in this order: date, rooms_sold, lock

If you select ‘lock’ and click the button, the output of getSourceData() shows the change to the data, but it is in the order [date, lock, rooms_sold].

Why isn’t the outputted data in the new order that I am displaying the table? Is this just how getSourceData() handles changes?

#2

Hey @nirmalmulji

to get the whole dataset you can manipulate with two methods getData and getSourceData. You already know the source, the getData will return what you see (besides renderers).

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#3

getData result

0: (3) ["Tue, 04/30/2019", 34, false]
1: (3) ["Wed, 05/01/2019", 14, false]
2: (3) ["Thu, 05/02/2019", 66, false]
#4

yes but getSourceData also returns the manipulated data, but it is in the other order. My question is why does this occur with getSourceData. I use getSourceData in my application and want to make sure it doesn’t change in the future.

#5

If you’d like to get exactly what you have in the dataObject array, you’d need to make a copy of this variable. Simply asking for this value won’t work as it is assigned by the reference.

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