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DataTable Class

Extends DataTable.Base
Module: datatable-base
Parent Module: datatable

Available since 3.5.0

A Widget for displaying tabular data. Before feature modules are use()d, this class is functionally equivalent to DataTable.Base. However, feature modules can modify this class in non-destructive ways, expanding the API and functionality.

This is the primary DataTable class. Out of the box, it provides the ability to dynamically generate an HTML table from a set of column configurations and row data. But feature module inclusion can add table sorting, pagintaion, highlighting, selection, and more.


// The functionality of this table would require additional modules be use()d,
// but the feature APIs are aggregated onto Y.DataTable.
// (Snippet is for illustration. Not all features are available today.)
var table = new Y.DataTable({
    columns: [
        { type: 'checkbox', defaultChecked: true },
        { key: 'firstName', sortable: true, resizable: true },
        { key: 'lastName', sortable: true },
        { key: 'role', formatter: toRoleName }
    ],
    data: {
        source: 'http://myserver.com/service/json',
        type: 'json',
        schema: {
            resultListLocator: 'results.users',
            fields: [
                'username',
                'firstName',
                'lastName',
                { key: 'role', type: 'number' }
            ]
        }
    },
    recordType: UserModel,
    pagedData: {
        location: 'footer',
        pageSizes: [20, 50, 'all'],
        rowsPerPage: 20,
        pageLinks: 5
    },
    editable: true
});

Column Configuration

The column configurations are set in the form of an array of objects, where each object corresponds to a column. For columns populated directly from the row data, a 'key' property is required to bind the column to that property or attribute in the row data.

Not all columns need to relate to row data, nor do all properties or attributes of the row data need to have a corresponding column. However, only those columns included in the columns configuration attribute will be rendered.

Other column configuration properties are supported by the configured view, class as well as any features added by plugins or class extensions. See the description of DataTable.TableView and its subviews DataTable.HeaderView, DataTable.BodyView, and DataTable.FooterView (and other DataTable feature classes) to see what column properties they support.

Some examples of column configurations would be:


// Basic
var columns = [{ key: 'firstName' }, { key: 'lastName' }, { key: 'age' }];

// For columns without any additional configuration, strings can be used
var columns = ['firstName', 'lastName', 'age'];

// Multi-row column headers (see DataTable.HeaderView for details)
var columns = [
    {
        label: 'Name',
        children: [
            { key: 'firstName' },
            { key: 'lastName' }
        ]
    },
    'age' // mixing and matching objects and strings is ok
];

// Including columns that are not related 1:1 to row data fields/attributes
// (See DataTable.BodyView for details)
var columns = [
    {
        label: 'Name', // Needed for the column header
        formatter: function (o) {
            // Fill the column cells with data from firstName and lastName
            if (o.data.age > 55) {
                o.className += ' senior';
            }
            return o.data.lastName + ', ' + o.data.firstName;
        }
    },
    'age'
];

// Columns that include feature configurations (for illustration; not all
// features are available today).
var columns = [
    { type: 'checkbox', defaultChecked: true },
    { key: 'firstName', sortable: true, resizable: true, min-width: '300px' },
    { key: 'lastName', sortable: true, resizable: true, min-width: '300px' },
    { key: 'age', emptyCellValue: 'unknown' }
];

Row Data Configuration

The data configuration attribute is responsible for housing the data objects that will be rendered as rows. You can provide this information in two ways by default:

  1. An array of simple objects with key:value pairs
  2. A ModelList of Base-based class instances (presumably Model subclass instances)

If an array of objects is passed, it will be translated into a ModelList filled with instances of the class provided to the recordType attribute. This attribute can also create a custom Model subclass from an array of field names or an object of attribute configurations. If no recordType is provided, one will be created for you from available information (see _initRecordType). Providing either your own ModelList instance for data, or at least Model class for recordType, is the best way to control client-server synchronization when modifying data on the client side.

The ModelList instance that manages the table's data is available in the data property on the DataTable instance.

Rendering

Table rendering is a collaborative process between the DataTable and its configured view. The DataTable creates an instance of the configured view (DataTable.TableView by default), and calls its render() method. DataTable.TableView, for instance, then creates the <table> and <caption>, then delegates the rendering of the specific sections of the table to subviews, which can be configured as headerView, bodyView, and footerView. DataTable.TableView defaults the headerView to DataTable.HeaderView and the bodyView to DataTable.BodyView, but leaves the footerView unassigned. Setting any subview to null will result in that table section not being rendered.

Item Index

Methods

Methods

@renderUI

() protected

Inherited from DataTable.Base: datatable/js/base.js:424

Available since 3.6.0

Instantiates the configured view class that will be responsible for setting up the View class.

_addAttrs

(
  • cfgs
  • values
  • lazy
)
private

Implementation behind the public addAttrs method.

This method is invoked directly by get if it encounters a scenario in which an attribute's valueFn attempts to obtain the value an attribute in the same group of attributes, which has not yet been added (on demand initialization).

Parameters:

  • cfgs Object

    An object with attribute name/configuration pairs.

  • values Object

    An object with attribute name/value pairs, defining the initial values to apply. Values defined in the cfgs argument will be over-written by values in this argument unless defined as read only.

  • lazy Boolean

    Whether or not to delay the intialization of these attributes until the first call to get/set. Individual attributes can over-ride this behavior by defining a lazyAdd configuration property in their configuration. See addAttr.

_addLazyAttr

(
  • name
)
private

Finishes initializing an attribute which has been lazily added.

Parameters:

  • name Object

    The name of the attribute

_addScrollbarPadding

() protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:190

Available since 3.5.0

Adds padding to the last cells in the fixed header for vertically scrolling tables. This padding is equal in width to the scrollbar, so can't be relegated to a stylesheet.

_afterChildSelectedChange

(
  • event
)
protected

Default attribute change listener for the selected attribute, responsible for updating the UI, in response to attribute changes.

Parameters:

  • event EventFacade

    The event facade for the attribute change.

_afterColumnsChange

(
  • e
)
protected

Provided by the datatable-core module.

Defined in datatable/js/core.js:333

Available since 3.5.0

Updates the _columnMap property in response to changes in the columns attribute.

Parameters:

_afterDataChange

(
  • e
)
protected

Provided by the datatable-core module.

Defined in datatable/js/core.js:346

Available since 3.5.0

Updates the modelList attributes of the rendered views in response to the data attribute being assigned a new ModelList.

Parameters:

_afterDisplayColumnsChange

(
  • e
)
protected

Inherited from DataTable.Base: datatable/js/base.js:304

Available since 3.6.0

Updates the _displayColumns property.

Parameters:

_afterMessageColumnsChange

(
  • e
)
protected

Provided by the datatable-message module.

Defined in datatable/js/message.js:110

Available since 3.5.0

Updates the colspan of the <td> used to display the messages.

Parameters:

_afterMessageDataChange

(
  • e
)
protected

Provided by the datatable-message module.

Defined in datatable/js/message.js:133

Available since 3.5.0

Relays to _uiSetMessage to hide or show the message node.

Parameters:

_afterRecordTypeChange

(
  • e
)
protected

Provided by the datatable-core module.

Defined in datatable/js/core.js:367

Available since 3.6.0

Assigns to the new recordType as the model for the data ModelList

Parameters:

_afterScrollableChange

(
  • e
)
protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:215

Available since 3.5.0

Reacts to changes in the scrollable attribute by updating the _xScroll and _yScroll properties and syncing the scrolling structure accordingly.

Parameters:

_afterScrollCaptionChange

(
  • e
)
protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:239

Available since 3.5.0

Reacts to changes in the caption attribute by adding, removing, or syncing the caption table when the table is set to scroll.

Parameters:

_afterScrollColumnsChange

(
  • e
)
protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:254

Available since 3.5.0

Reacts to changes in the columns attribute of vertically scrolling tables by refreshing the fixed headers, scroll container, and virtual scrollbar position.

Parameters:

_afterScrollDataChange

(
  • e
)
protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:274

Available since 3.5.0

Reacts to changes in vertically scrolling table's data ModelList by synchronizing the fixed column header widths and virtual scrollbar height.

Parameters:

_afterScrollHeightChange

(
  • e
)
protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:289

Available since 3.5.0

Reacts to changes in the height attribute of vertically scrolling tables by updating the height of the <div> wrapping the data table and the virtual scrollbar. If scrollable was set to "y" or "xy" but lacking a declared height until the received change, _syncScrollUI is called to create the fixed headers etc.

Parameters:

_afterScrollWidthChange

(
  • e
)
protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:328

Available since 3.5.0

Reacts to changes in the width of scrolling tables by expanding the width of the <div> wrapping the data table for horizontally scrolling tables or upding the position of the virtual scrollbar for vertically scrolling tables.

Parameters:

_afterShowMessagesChange

(
  • e
)
protected

Provided by the datatable-message module.

Defined in datatable/js/message.js:145

Available since 3.5.0

Removes the message node if showMessages is false, or relays to _uiSetMessage if true.

Parameters:

_afterSortByChange

(
  • e
)
protected

Provided by the datatable-sort module.

Defined in datatable/js/sort.js:288

Available since 3.5.0

Sorts the data ModelList based on the new sortBy configuration.

Parameters:

_afterSortDataChange

(
  • e
)
protected

Provided by the datatable-sort module.

Defined in datatable/js/sort.js:313

Available since 3.5.0

Applies the sorting logic to the new ModelList if the newVal is a new ModelList.

Parameters:

_afterSortRecordChange

(
  • e
)
protected

Provided by the datatable-sort module.

Defined in datatable/js/sort.js:332

Available since 3.5.0

Checks if any of the fields in the modified record are fields that are currently being sorted by, and if so, resorts the data ModelList.

Parameters:

_aggregateAttrs

(
  • allAttrs
)
Object private

A helper method, used by _initHierarchyData to aggregate attribute configuration across the instances class hierarchy.

The method will protect the attribute configuration value to protect the statically defined default value in ATTRS if required (if the value is an object literal, array or the attribute configuration has cloneDefaultValue set to shallow or deep).

Parameters:

  • allAttrs Array

    An array of ATTRS definitions across classes in the hierarchy (subclass first, Base last)

Returns:

Object: The aggregate set of ATTRS definitions for the instance

_applyParsedConfig

() Object protected

Returns:

Object: The merged configuration literal

_applyParser

(
  • config
)
protected

Utility method used to apply the HTML_PARSER configuration for the instance, to retrieve config data values.

Parameters:

  • config Object

    User configuration object (will be populated with values from Node)

_attrCfgHash

() private

Utility method to define the attribute hash used to filter/whitelist property mixes for this class.

_baseDestroy

() private

Internal destroy implementation for BaseCore

_baseInit

() private

Internal initialization implementation for BaseCore

_bindAttrUI

(
  • attrs
)
private

Binds after listeners for the list of attributes provided

Parameters:

_bindDOM

() protected

Sets up DOM listeners, on elements rendered by the widget.

_bindMessageUI

() protected

Provided by the datatable-message module.

Defined in datatable/js/message.js:166

Available since 3.5.0

Binds the events necessary to keep the message node in sync with the current table and configuration state.

_bindScrollbar

() protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:345

Available since 3.5.0

Binds virtual scrollbar interaction to the _yScrollNode's scrollTop and vice versa.

_bindScrollResize

() protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:365

Available since 3.5.0

Binds to the window resize event to update the vertical scrolling table headers and wrapper <div> dimensions.

_bindScrollUI

() protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:382

Available since 3.5.0

Attaches internal subscriptions to keep the scrolling structure up to date with changes in the table's data, columns, caption, or height. The width is taken care of already.

This executes after the table's native bindUI method.

_bindSortUI

() protected

Provided by the datatable-sort module.

Defined in datatable/js/sort.js:352

Available since 3.5.0

Subscribes to state changes that warrant updating the UI, and adds the click handler for triggering the sort operation from the UI.

_bindUI

() protected

Sets up DOM and CustomEvent listeners for the widget.

_bindUIChild

() protected

Binds event listeners responsible for updating the UI state in response to WidgetChild related state changes.

This method is invoked after bindUI is invoked for the Widget class using YUI's aop infrastructure.

_clearScrollLock

() protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:410

Available since 3.5.0

Clears the lock and timer used to manage synchronizing the scroll position between the vertical scroll container and the virtual scrollbar.

_createColumnGroup

() protected

Provided by the datatable-column-widths module.

Defined in datatable/js/colwidths.js:175

Available since 3.5.0

Renders the table's <colgroup> and populates the _colgroupNode property.

_createRecordClass

(
  • attrs
)
Model protected

Provided by the datatable-core module.

Defined in datatable/js/core.js:391

Available since 3.5.0

Creates a Model subclass from an array of attribute names or an object of attribute definitions. This is used to generate a class suitable to represent the data passed to the data attribute if no recordType is set.

Parameters:

  • attrs String[] | Object

    Names assigned to the Model subclass's ATTRS or its entire ATTRS definition object

Returns:

_createScrollbar

() Node protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:425

Available since 3.5.0

Creates a virtual scrollbar from the _SCROLLBAR_TEMPLATE, assigning it to the _scrollbarNode property.

Returns:

Node: The created Node

_createScrollCaptionTable

() Node protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:451

Available since 3.5.0

Creates a separate table to contain the caption when the table is configured to scroll vertically or horizontally.

Returns:

Node: The created Node

_createUIEvent

(
  • type
)
private

Binds a delegated DOM event listener of the specified type to the Widget's outtermost DOM element to facilitate the firing of a Custom Event of the same type for the Widget instance.

Parameters:

  • type String

    String representing the name of the event

_createXScrollNode

() Node protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:473

Available since 3.5.0

Populates the _xScrollNode property by creating the <div> Node described by the _X_SCROLLER_TEMPLATE.

Returns:

Node: The created Node

_createYScrollHeader

() Node protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:493

Available since 3.5.0

Populates the _yScrollHeader property by creating the <table> Node described by the _Y_SCROLL_HEADER_TEMPLATE.

Returns:

Node: The created Node

_createYScrollNode

() Node protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:515

Available since 3.5.0

Populates the _yScrollNode property by creating the <div> Node described by the _Y_SCROLLER_TEMPLATE.

Returns:

Node: The created Node

_defAddColumnFn

(
  • e
)
protected

Provided by the datatable-mutable module.

Defined in datatable/js/mutable.js:394

Available since 3.5.0

Default function for the addColumn event.

Inserts the specified column at the provided index.

Parameters:

_defAttrChangeFn

(
  • e
)
private

Default function for attribute change events.

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade

    The event object for attribute change events.

_defaultCB

() protected

Returns the default value for the contentBox attribute.

For the Widget class, this will be the srcNode if provided, otherwise null (resulting in a new contentBox node instance being created)

_defDestroyFn

(
  • e
)
protected

Default destroy event handler

Parameters:

_defInitFn

(
  • e
)
protected

Default init event handler

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade

    Event object, with a cfg property which refers to the configuration object passed to the constructor.

_defModifyColumnFn

(
  • e
)
protected

Provided by the datatable-mutable module.

Defined in datatable/js/mutable.js:424

Available since 3.5.0

Default function for the modifyColumn event.

Mixes the new column properties into the specified column definition.

Parameters:

_defMoveColumnFn

(
  • e
)
protected

Provided by the datatable-mutable module.

Defined in datatable/js/mutable.js:448

Available since 3.5.0

Default function for the moveColumn event.

Removes the specified column from its current location and inserts it at the specified array index (may be an array of indexes for nested headers).

Parameters:

_defRemoveColumnFn

(
  • e
)
protected

Provided by the datatable-mutable module.

Defined in datatable/js/mutable.js:501

Available since 3.5.0

Default function for the removeColumn event.

Splices the specified column from its containing columns array.

Parameters:

_defRenderFn

(
  • e
  • parentNode
)
protected

Default render handler

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade

    The Event object

  • parentNode Node

    The parent node to render to, if passed in to the render method

_defRenderViewFn

(
  • e
)
protected

The default behavior of the renderView event. Calls render() on the View instance on the event.

Parameters:

_defSortFn

(
  • e
)
protected

Provided by the datatable-sort module.

Defined in datatable/js/sort.js:376

Available since 3.5.0

Sets the sortBy attribute from the sort event's e.sortBy value.

Parameters:

_destroyBox

() protected

Removes and destroys the widgets rendered boundingBox, contentBox, and detaches bound UI events.

_destroyHierarchy

() private

Destroys the class hierarchy for this instance by invoking the destructor method on the prototype of each class in the hierarchy.

_destroyUIEvents

() private

Destructor logic for UI event infrastructure, invoked during Widget destruction.

_disableScrolling

() protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:543

Available since 3.5.0

Removes the nodes used to create horizontal and vertical scrolling and rejoins the caption to the main table if needed.

_disableXScrolling

() protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:560

Available since 3.5.0

Removes the nodes used to allow horizontal scrolling.

_disableYScrolling

() protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:571

Available since 3.5.0

Removes the nodes used to allow vertical scrolling.

_extractDisplayColumns

(
  • columns
)
protected

Processes the full column array, distilling the columns down to those that correspond to cell data columns.

Parameters:

  • columns Object[]

    The full set of table columns

_filterAdHocAttrs

(
  • allAttrs
  • userVals
)
Object private

Parameters:

  • allAttrs Object

    The set of all attribute configurations for this instance. Attributes will be removed from this set, if they belong to the filtered class, so that by the time all classes are processed, allCfgs will be empty.

  • userVals Object

    The config object passed in by the user, from which adhoc attrs are to be filtered.

Returns:

Object: The set of adhoc attributes passed in, in the form of an object with attribute name/configuration pairs.

_filterAttrCfs

(
  • clazz
  • allCfgs
)
Object private

A helper method used when processing ATTRS across the class hierarchy during initialization. Returns a disposable object with the attributes defined for the provided class, extracted from the set of all attributes passed in.

Parameters:

  • clazz Function

    The class for which the desired attributes are required.

  • allCfgs Object

    The set of all attribute configurations for this instance. Attributes will be removed from this set, if they belong to the filtered class, so that by the time all classes are processed, allCfgs will be empty.

Returns:

Object: The set of attributes belonging to the class passed in, in the form of an object with attribute name/configuration pairs.

_filterUIEvent

(
  • evt
)
Boolean private

This method is used to determine if we should fire the UI Event or not. The default implementation makes sure that for nested delegates (nested unrelated widgets), we don't fire the UI event listener more than once at each level.

For example, without the additional filter, if you have nested widgets, each widget will have a delegate listener. If you click on the inner widget, the inner delegate listener's filter will match once, but the outer will match twice (based on delegate's design) - once for the inner widget, and once for the outer.

Parameters:

Returns:

Boolean: true if it's OK to fire the custom UI event, false if not.

_fireAttrChange

(
  • attrName
  • subAttrName
  • currVal
  • newVal
  • opts
)
private

Utility method to help setup the event payload and fire the attribute change event.

Parameters:

  • attrName String

    The name of the attribute

  • subAttrName String

    The full path of the property being changed, if this is a sub-attribute value being change. Otherwise null.

  • currVal Any

    The current value of the attribute

  • newVal Any

    The new value of the attribute

  • opts Object

    Any additional event data to mix into the attribute change event's event facade.

_getAttr

(
  • name
)
Any protected chainable

Provides the common implementation for the public get method, allowing Attribute hosts to over-ride either method.

See get for argument details.

Parameters:

  • name String

    The name of the attribute.

Returns:

Any: The value of the attribute.

_getAttrCfg

(
  • name
)
Object protected

Returns an object with the configuration properties (and value) for the given attribute. If attrName is not provided, returns the configuration properties for all attributes.

Parameters:

  • name String

    Optional. The attribute name. If not provided, the method will return the configuration for all attributes.

Returns:

Object: The configuration properties for the given attribute, or all attributes.

_getAttrCfgs

() Object protected

Returns an aggregated set of attribute configurations, by traversing the class hierarchy.

Returns:

Object: The hash of attribute configurations, aggregated across classes in the hierarchy This value is cached the first time the method, or _getClasses, is invoked. Subsequent invocations return the cached value.

_getAttrInitVal

(
  • attr
  • cfg
  • initValues
)
Any private

Returns the initial value of the given attribute from either the default configuration provided, or the over-ridden value if it exists in the set of initValues provided and the attribute is not read-only.

Parameters:

  • attr String

    The name of the attribute

  • cfg Object

    The attribute configuration object

  • initValues Object

    The object with simple and complex attribute name/value pairs returned from _normAttrVals

Returns:

Any: The initial value of the attribute.

_getAttrs

(
  • attrs
)
Object protected

Implementation behind the public getAttrs method, to get multiple attribute values.

Parameters:

  • attrs Array | boolean

    Optional. An array of attribute names. If omitted, all attribute values are returned. If set to true, all attributes modified from their initial values are returned.

Returns:

Object: An object with attribute name/value pairs.

_getClasses

() Function[] protected

Returns the class hierarchy for this object, with BaseCore being the last class in the array.

Returns:

Function[]: An array of classes (constructor functions), making up the class hierarchy for this object. This value is cached the first time the method, or _getAttrCfgs, is invoked. Subsequent invocations return the cached value.

_getColumns

(
  • columns
  • name
)
protected

Provided by the datatable-core module.

Defined in datatable/js/core.js:431

Available since 3.5.0

The getter for the columns attribute. Returns the array of column configuration objects if instance.get('columns') is called, or the specific column object if instance.get('columns.columnKey') is called.

Parameters:

  • columns Object[]

    The full array of column objects

  • name String

    The attribute name requested (e.g. 'columns' or 'columns.foo');

_getColumnset

(
  • ignored
  • name
)
deprecated protected

Provided by the datatable-core module.

Defined in datatable/js/core.js:450

Deprecated: This will be removed with the `columnset` attribute in a future version.

Available since 3.5.0

Relays the get() request for the deprecated columnset attribute to the columns attribute.

THIS BREAKS BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY. 3.4.1 and prior implementations will expect a Columnset instance returned from get('columnset').

Parameters:

  • ignored Object

    The current value stored in the columnset state

  • name String

    The attribute name requested (e.g. 'columnset' or 'columnset.foo');

_getHtmlParser

() Object private

Gets the HTMLPARSER definition for this instance, by merging HTMLPARSER definitions across the class hierarchy.

Returns:

Object: HTML_PARSER definition for this instance

_getNodeToParse

() Node private

Determines whether we have a node reference which we should try and parse.

The current implementation does not parse nodes generated from CONTENT_TEMPLATE, only explicitly set srcNode, or contentBox attributes.

Returns:

Node: The node reference to apply HTML_PARSER to.

_getRecordType

(
  • val
)
Model

Provided by the datatable-core module.

Defined in datatable/js/core.js:470

Returns the Model class of the instance's data attribute ModelList. If not set, returns the explicitly configured value.

Parameters:

  • val Model

    The currently configured value

Returns:

_getSortBy

(
  • val
  • detail
)
protected

Provided by the datatable-sort module.

Defined in datatable/js/sort.js:388

Available since 3.5.0

Getter for the sortBy attribute.

Supports the special subattribute "sortBy.state" to get a normalized JSON version of the current sort state. Otherwise, returns the last assigned value.

For example:

var table = new Y.DataTable({
    columns: [ ... ],
    data: [ ... ],
    sortBy: 'username'
});

table.get('sortBy'); // 'username'
table.get('sortBy.state'); // { key: 'username', dir: 1 }

table.sort(['lastName', { firstName: "desc" }]);
table.get('sortBy'); // ['lastName', { firstName: "desc" }]
table.get('sortBy.state'); // [{ key: "lastName", dir: 1 }, { key: "firstName", dir: -1 }]

Parameters:

_getSrcNode

() Node protected

Returns:

Node: The Node to apply HTML_PARSER to

_getStateVal

(
  • name
)
Any private

Gets the stored value for the attribute, from either the internal state object, or the state proxy if it exits

Parameters:

  • name String

    The name of the attribute

Returns:

Any: The stored value of the attribute

_getStrings

(
  • locale
)
protected

Returns the strings key/value hash for a paricular locale, without locale lookup applied.

Parameters:

_getType

() private

If the instance has a prefix attribute and the event type is not prefixed, the instance prefix is applied to the supplied type.

_getUIEventNode

() protected

Inherited from Widget but overwritten in widget-child/js/Widget-Child.js:167

Returns the node on which to bind delegate listeners.

Override of Widget's implementation of _getUIEventNode() to ensure that all event listeners are bound to the Widget's topmost DOM element. This ensures that the firing of each type of Widget UI event (click, mousedown, etc.) is facilitated by a single, top-level, delegated DOM event listener.

_guid

() protected

_initAttrHost

(
  • attrs
  • values
  • lazy
)
private

Constructor logic for attributes. Initializes the host state, and sets up the inital attributes passed to the constructor.

Parameters:

  • attrs Object

    The attributes to add during construction (passed through to addAttrs). These can also be defined on the constructor being augmented with Attribute by defining the ATTRS property on the constructor.

  • values Object

    The initial attribute values to apply (passed through to addAttrs). These are not merged/cloned. The caller is responsible for isolating user provided values if required.

  • lazy Boolean

    Whether or not to add attributes lazily (passed through to addAttrs).

_initAttribute

() private

Inherited from BaseObservable but overwritten in base/js/BaseCore.js:209

Initializes AttributeCore

_initAttrs

(
  • attrs
  • values
  • lazy
)
protected

Utility method to set up initial attributes defined during construction, either through the constructor.ATTRS property, or explicitly passed in.

Parameters:

  • attrs Object

    The attributes to add during construction (passed through to addAttrs). These can also be defined on the constructor being augmented with Attribute by defining the ATTRS property on the constructor.

  • values Object

    The initial attribute values to apply (passed through to addAttrs). These are not merged/cloned. The caller is responsible for isolating user provided values if required.

  • lazy Boolean

    Whether or not to add attributes lazily (passed through to addAttrs).

_initBase

(
  • config
)
private

Internal construction logic for BaseCore.

Parameters:

  • config Object

    The constructor configuration object

_initColumns

() protected

Provided by the datatable-core module.

Defined in datatable/js/core.js:488

Available since 3.5.0

Initializes the _columnMap property from the configured columns attribute. If columns is not set, but there are records in the data ModelList, use ATTRS of that class.

_initCoreEvents

() protected

Provided by the datatable-core module.

Defined in datatable/js/core.js:517

Available since 3.6.0

Sets up the change event subscriptions to maintain internal state.

_initData

() ModelList protected

Provided by the datatable-core module.

Defined in datatable/js/core.js:532

Available since 3.6.0

Defaults the data attribute to an empty ModelList if not set during construction. Uses the configured recordType for the ModelList's model proeprty if set.

Returns:

_initDataProperty

(
  • data
)
protected

Provided by the datatable-core module.

Defined in datatable/js/core.js:554

Available since 3.6.0

Initializes the instance's data property from the value of the data attribute. If the attribute value is a ModelList, it is assigned directly to this.data. If it is an array, a ModelList is created, its model property is set to the configured recordType class, and it is seeded with the array data. This ModelList is then assigned to this.data.

Parameters:

_initHierarchy

(
  • userVals
)
private

Initializes the class hierarchy for the instance, which includes initializing attributes for each class defined in the class's static ATTRS property and invoking the initializer method on the prototype of each class in the hierarchy.

Parameters:

  • userVals Object

    Object with configuration property name/value pairs

_initHierarchyData

() private

A helper method used by _getClasses and _getAttrCfgs, which determines both the array of classes and aggregate set of attribute configurations across the class hierarchy for the instance.

_initMessageNode

() protected

Provided by the datatable-message module.

Defined in datatable/js/message.js:203

Available since 3.5.0

Creates the _messageNode property from the configured MESSAGE_TEMPLATE and inserts it before the <table>'s <tbody> node.

_initMessageStrings

() protected

Provided by the datatable-message module.

Defined in datatable/js/message.js:224

Available since 3.5.0

Add the messaging related strings to the strings map.

_initSortFn

() protected

Provided by the datatable-sort module.

Defined in datatable/js/sort.js:477

Available since 3.5.0

Creates a _compare function for the data ModelList to allow custom sorting by multiple fields.

_initSortStrings

() protected

Provided by the datatable-sort module.

Defined in datatable/js/sort.js:528

Available since 3.5.0

Add the sort related strings to the strings map.

_initUIEvent

(
  • type
)
String private

Sets up infrastructure required to fire a UI event.

Parameters:

  • type String

    String representing the name of the event

Returns:

_isLazyAttr

(
  • name
)
Boolean private

Checks whether or not the attribute is one which has been added lazily and still requires initialization.

Parameters:

  • name String

    The name of the attribute

Returns:

Boolean: true if it's a lazily added attribute, false otherwise.

_isUIEvent

(
  • type
)
String private

Determines if the specified event is a UI event.

Parameters:

  • type String

    String representing the name of the event

Returns:

String: Event Returns the name of the UI Event, otherwise undefined.

_mapInstance

(
  • The
)
protected

Utility method used to add an entry to the boundingBox id to instance map.

This method can be used to populate the instance with lazily created boundingBox Node references.

Parameters:

_monitor

(
  • what
  • eventType
  • o
)
private

This is the entry point for the event monitoring system. You can monitor 'attach', 'detach', 'fire', and 'publish'. When configured, these events generate an event. click -> clickattach, clickdetach, click_publish -- these can be subscribed to like other events to monitor the event system. Inividual published events can have monitoring turned on or off (publish can't be turned off before it it published) by setting the events 'monitor' config.

Parameters:

  • what String

    'attach', 'detach', 'fire', or 'publish'

  • eventType String | CustomEvent

    The prefixed name of the event being monitored, or the CustomEvent object.

  • o Object

    Information about the event interaction, such as fire() args, subscription category, publish config

_normAttrVals

(
  • valueHash
)
Object private

Utility method to split out simple attribute name/value pairs ("x") from complex attribute name/value pairs ("x.y.z"), so that complex attributes can be keyed by the top level attribute name.

Parameters:

  • valueHash Object

    An object with attribute name/value pairs

Returns:

Object: An object literal with 2 properties - "simple" and "complex", containing simple and complex attribute values respectively keyed by the top level attribute name, or null, if valueHash is falsey.

_onDocFocus

(
  • evt
)
protected

DOM focus event handler, used to sync the state of the Widget with the DOM

Parameters:

  • evt EventFacade

    The event facade for the DOM focus event

_onDocMouseDown

(
  • evt
)
protected

"mousedown" event handler for the owner document of the widget's bounding box.

Parameters:

  • evt EventFacade

    The event facade for the DOM focus event

_onUITriggerSort

(
  • e
)
protected

Provided by the datatable-sort module.

Defined in datatable/js/sort.js:541

Available since 3.5.0

Fires the sort event in response to user clicks on sortable column headers.

Parameters:

_parseSortable

() protected

Provided by the datatable-sort module.

Defined in datatable/js/sort.js:591

Available since 3.5.0

Normalizes the possible input values for the sortable attribute, storing the results in the _sortable property.

_parseType

() private

Returns an array with the detach key (if provided), and the prefixed event name from _getType Y.on('detachcategory| menu:click', fn)

_preInitEventCfg

(
  • config
)
private

Handles the special on, after and target properties which allow the user to easily configure on and after listeners as well as bubble targets during construction, prior to init.

Parameters:

  • config Object

    The user configuration object

_protectAttrs

(
  • attrs
)
Object deprecated protected

Inherited from AttributeCore: attribute/js/AttributeCore.js:815

Deprecated: Use `AttributeCore.protectAttrs()` or `Attribute.protectAttrs()` which are the same static utility method.

Utility method to protect an attribute configuration hash, by merging the entire object and the individual attr config objects.

Parameters:

  • attrs Object

    A hash of attribute to configuration object pairs.

Returns:

Object: A protected version of the attrs argument.

_relayCoreAttrChange

(
  • e
)
protected

Inherited from DataTable.Base: datatable/js/base.js:410

Available since 3.6.0

Relays attribute changes to the instance's view.

Parameters:

_removeLoadingClassNames

() protected

Removes class names representative of the widget's loading state from the boundingBox.

_removeScrollbar

() protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:710

Available since 3.5.0

Removes the virtual scrollbar used by scrolling tables.

_removeScrollCaptionTable

() protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:618

Available since 3.5.0

Removes the table used to house the caption when the table is scrolling.

_removeXScrollNode

() protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:637

Available since 3.5.0

Removes the <div> wrapper used to contain the data table when the table is horizontally scrolling.

_removeYScrollContainer

() protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:656

Available since 3.5.0

Removes the <div> wrapper used to contain the data table and fixed header when the table is vertically scrolling.

_removeYScrollHeader

() protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:675

Available since 3.5.0

Removes the <table> used to contain the fixed column headers when the table is vertically scrolling.

_removeYScrollNode

() protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:691

Available since 3.5.0

Removes the <div> wrapper used to contain the data table when the table is vertically scrolling.

_renderBox

(
  • parentNode
)
private

Helper method to collect the boundingBox and contentBox and append to the provided parentNode, if not already a child. The owner document of the boundingBox, or the owner document of the contentBox will be used as the document into which the Widget is rendered if a parentNode is node is not provided. If both the boundingBox and the contentBox are not currently in the document, and no parentNode is provided, the widget will be rendered to the current document's body.

Parameters:

  • parentNode Node

    The parentNode to render the widget to. If not provided, and both the boundingBox and the contentBox are not currently in the document, the widget will be rendered to the current document's body.

_renderBoxClassNames

() protected

Applies standard class names to the boundingBox and contentBox

_renderSortable

() protected

Provided by the datatable-sort module.

Defined in datatable/js/sort.js:633

Available since 3.5.0

Initial application of the sortable UI.

_renderUI

() protected

Initializes the UI state for the Widget's bounding/content boxes.

_set

(
  • name
  • val
)
Object protected chainable

Allows setting of readOnly/writeOnce attributes. See set for argument details.

Parameters:

  • name String

    The name of the attribute.

  • val Any

    The value to set the attribute to.

Returns:

Object: A reference to the host object.

_setAttr

(
  • name
  • value
  • opts
  • force
)
Object protected chainable

Provides the common implementation for the public set and protected _set methods.

See set for argument details.

Parameters:

  • name String

    The name of the attribute.

  • value Any

    The value to set the attribute to.

  • opts Object

    (Optional) Optional event data to be mixed into the event facade passed to subscribers of the attribute's change event. This is currently a hack. There's no real need for the AttributeCore implementation to support this parameter, but breaking it out into AttributeObservable, results in additional function hops for the critical path.

  • force Boolean

    If true, allows the caller to set values for readOnly or writeOnce attributes which have already been set.

Returns:

Object: A reference to the host object.

_setAttrs

(
  • attrs
)
Object protected chainable

Implementation behind the public setAttrs method, to set multiple attribute values.

Parameters:

  • attrs Object

    An object with attributes name/value pairs.

Returns:

Object: A reference to the host object.

_setAttrUI

(
  • e
)
private

Parameters:

_setAttrVal

(
  • attrName
  • subAttrName
  • prevVal
  • newVal
)
Booolean private

Updates the stored value of the attribute in the privately held State object, if validation and setter passes.

Parameters:

  • attrName String

    The attribute name.

  • subAttrName String

    The sub-attribute name, if setting a sub-attribute property ("x.y.z").

  • prevVal Any

    The currently stored value of the attribute.

  • newVal Any

    The value which is going to be stored.

Returns:

Booolean: true if the new attribute value was stored, false if not.

_setBB

(
  • Node/String
)
private

Setter for the boundingBox attribute

Parameters:

Returns:

Node

_setBox

(
  • id
  • node
  • template
  • true
)
Node private

Helper method to set the bounding/content box, or create it from the provided template if not found.

Parameters:

  • id String

    The node's id attribute

  • node Node | String

    The node reference

  • template String

    HTML string template for the node

  • true Boolean

    if this is the boundingBox, false if it's the contentBox

Returns:

Node: The node

_setCB

(
  • node
)
private

Setter for the contentBox attribute

Parameters:

Returns:

Node

_setColumnMap

(
  • columns
)
protected

Provided by the datatable-core module.

Defined in datatable/js/core.js:640

Available since 3.6.0

Iterates the array of column configurations to capture all columns with a key property. An map is built with column keys as the property name and the corresponding column object as the associated value. This map is then assigned to the instance's _columnMap property.

Parameters:

_setColumns

(
  • val
)
Null | Object[] protected

Provided by the datatable-core module.

Defined in datatable/js/core.js:684

Translates string columns into objects with that string as the value of its key property.

All columns are assigned a _yuid stamp and _id property corresponding to the column's configured name or key property with any spaces replaced with dashes. If the same name or key appears in multiple columns, subsequent appearances will have their _id appended with an incrementing number (e.g. if column "foo" is included in the columns attribute twice, the first will get _id of "foo", and the second an _id of "foo1"). Columns that are children of other columns will have the _parent property added, assigned the column object to which they belong.

Parameters:

Returns:

Null | Object[]:

_setColumnset

(
  • val
)
deprecated protected

Provided by the datatable-core module.

Defined in datatable/js/core.js:792

Deprecated: This will be removed with the deprecated `columnset` attribute in a later version.

Available since 3.5.0

Relays attribute assignments of the deprecated columnset attribute to the columns attribute. If a Columnset is object is passed, its basic object structure is mined.

Parameters:

  • val Array | Columnset

    The columnset value to relay

_setColumnWidth

(
  • colIndex
  • width
)
protected

Provided by the datatable-column-widths module.

Defined in datatable/js/colwidths.js:198

Available since 3.5.0

Sets a columns's <col> element width style. This is needed to get around browser rendering differences.

The colIndex corresponds to the item index of the <col> in the table's <colgroup>.

To unset the width, pass a falsy value for the width.

Parameters:

_setData

() protected

Provided by the datatable-core module.

Defined in datatable/js/core.js:810

Available since 3.5.0

Accepts an object with each and getAttrs (preferably a ModelList or subclass) or an array of data objects. If an array is passes, it will create a ModelList to wrap the data. In doing so, it will set the created ModelList's model property to the class in the recordType attribute, which will be defaulted if not yet set.

If the data property is already set with a ModelList, passing an array as the value will call the ModelList's reset() method with that array rather than replacing the stored ModelList wholesale.

Any non-ModelList-ish and non-array value is invalid.

_setRecordset

(
  • val
)
deprecated protected

Provided by the datatable-core module.

Defined in datatable/js/core.js:853

Deprecated: This will be removed with the deprecated `recordset` attribute in a later version.

Available since 3.5.0

Relays the value assigned to the deprecated recordset attribute to the data attribute. If a Recordset instance is passed, the raw object data will be culled from it.

Parameters:

_setRecordType

(
  • val
)
Function protected

Provided by the datatable-core module.

Defined in datatable/js/core.js:881

Available since 3.5.0

Accepts a Base subclass (preferably a Model subclass). Alternately, it will generate a custom Model subclass from an array of attribute names or an object defining attributes and their respective configurations (it is assigned as the ATTRS of the new class).

Any other value is invalid.

Parameters:

  • val Function | String[] | Object

    The Model subclass, array of attribute names, or the ATTRS definition for a custom model subclass

Returns:

Function: A Base/Model subclass

_setScrollable

(
  • val
)
String protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:730

Available since 3.5.0

Accepts (case insensitive) values "x", "y", "xy", true, and false. true is translated to "xy" and upper case values are converted to lower case. All other values are invalid.

Parameters:

  • val String | Boolea

    Incoming value for the scrollable attribute

Returns:

_setScrollProperties

() protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:755

Available since 3.5.0

Assigns the _xScroll and _yScroll properties to true if an appropriate value is set in the scrollable attribute and the height and/or width is set.

_setSortBy

() protected

Provided by the datatable-sort module.

Defined in datatable/js/sort.js:646

Available since 3.5.0

Parses the current sortBy attribute into a normalized structure for the data ModelList's _compare method. Also updates the column configurations' sortDir properties.

_setStateVal

(
  • name
  • value
)
private

Sets the stored value for the attribute, in either the internal state object, or the state proxy if it exits

Parameters:

  • name String

    The name of the attribute

  • value Any

    The value of the attribute

_setStrings

(
  • strings
  • locale
)
protected

Sets strings for a particular locale, merging with any existing strings which may already be defined for the locale.

Parameters:

  • strings Object

    The hash of string key/values to set

  • locale Object

    The locale for the string values being set

_sortComparator

(
  • item
)
Model protected

Provided by the datatable-sort module.

Defined in datatable/js/sort.js:737

Available since 3.5.0

Replacement comparator for the data ModelList that defers sorting logic to the _compare method. The deferral is accomplished by returning this.

Parameters:

  • item Model

    The record being evaluated for sort position

Returns:

Model: The record

_strSetter

(
  • strings
)
String protected

The default setter for the strings attribute. Merges partial sets into the full string set, to allow users to partial sets of strings

Parameters:

Returns:

String: The full set of strings to set

_syncAttrUI

(
  • attrs
)
private

Invokes the _uiSet=ATTR NAME> method for the list of attributes provided

Parameters:

_syncMessageUI

() protected

Provided by the datatable-message module.

Defined in datatable/js/message.js:247

Available since 3.5.0

Synchronizes the message UI with the table state.

_syncScrollCaptionUI

() protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:802

Available since 3.5.0

Splits the caption from the data <table> if the table is configured to scroll. If not, rejoins the caption to the data <table> if it needs to be.

_syncScrollColumnWidths

() protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:841

Available since 3.5.0

Assigns widths to the fixed header columns to match the columns in the data table.

_syncScrollHeaders

() protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:883

Available since 3.5.0

Creates matching headers in the fixed header table for vertically scrolling tables and synchronizes the column widths.

_syncScrollPosition

(
  • e
)
protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:773

Available since 3.5.0

Keeps the virtual scrollbar and the scrolling <div> wrapper around the data table in vertically scrolling tables in sync.

Parameters:

_syncScrollUI

() protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:931

Available since 3.5.0

Wraps the table for X and Y scrolling, if necessary, if the scrollable attribute is set. Synchronizes dimensions and DOM placement of all scrolling related nodes.

_syncUI

() protected

Updates the widget UI to reflect the attribute state.

_syncUIChild

() protected

Synchronizes the UI to match the WidgetChild state.

This method is invoked after bindUI is invoked for the Widget class using YUI's aop infrastructure.

_syncXScrollUI

(
  • xy
)
protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:992

Available since 3.5.0

Wraps the table in a scrolling <div> of the configured width for "x" scrolling.

Parameters:

  • xy Boolean

    True if the table is configured with scrollable ="xy"

_syncYScrollUI

(
  • xy
)
protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:1061

Available since 3.5.0

Wraps the table in a scrolling <div> of the configured height (accounting for the caption if there is one) if "y" scrolling is enabled. Otherwise, unwraps the table if necessary.

Parameters:

  • xy Boolean

    True if the table is configured with scrollable = "xy"

_uiSetChildSelected

(
  • selected
)
protected

Updates the UI to reflect the selected attribute value.

Parameters:

  • selected Number

    The selected value to be reflected in the UI.

_uiSetColumnWidths

() protected

Provided by the datatable-column-widths module.

Defined in datatable/js/colwidths.js:254

Available since 3.5.0

Populates the table's <colgroup> with a <col> per item in the columns attribute without children. It is assumed that these are the columns that have data cells renderered for them.

_uiSetDim

(
  • dim
  • val
)
private

Parameters:

_uiSetDisabled

(
  • val
)
protected

Sets the disabled state for the UI

Parameters:

_uiSetFocused

(
  • val
  • src
)
protected

Sets the focused state for the UI

Parameters:

  • val Boolean
  • src String

    String representing the source that triggered an update to the UI.

_uiSetHeight

(
  • val
)
protected

Sets the height on the widget's bounding box element

Parameters:

_uiSetMessage

(
  • e
)
protected

Provided by the datatable-message module.

Defined in datatable/js/message.js:258

Available since 3.5.0

Calls hideMessage or showMessage as appropriate based on the presence of records in the data ModelList.

This is called when data is reset or records are added or removed. Also, if the showMessages attribute is updated. In either case, if the triggering event has a message property on the EventFacade, it will be passed to showMessage (if appropriate). If no such property is on the facade, the emptyMessage will be used (see the strings).

Parameters:

_uiSetScrollable

() protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:1161

Available since 3.5.0

Assigns the appropriate class to the boundingBox to identify the DataTable as horizontally scrolling, vertically scrolling, or both (adds both classes).

Classes added are "yui3-datatable-scrollable-x" or "...-y"

_uiSetScrollbarHeight

() protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:1177

Available since 3.5.0

Updates the virtual scrollbar's height to avoid overlapping with the fixed headers.

_uiSetScrollbarPosition

(
  • scroller
)
protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:1200

Available since 3.5.0

Updates the virtual scrollbar's placement to avoid overlapping the fixed headers or the data table.

Parameters:

  • scroller Node

    Reference node to position the scrollbar over

_uiSetSortable

() protected

Provided by the datatable-sort module.

Defined in datatable/js/sort.js:752

Available since 3.5.0

Applies the appropriate classes to the boundingBox and column headers to indicate sort state and sortability.

Also currently wraps the header content of sortable columns in a <div> liner to give a CSS anchor for sort indicators.

_uiSetTabIndex

(
  • Number
)
protected

Set the tabIndex on the widget's rendered UI

Parameters:

_uiSetVisible

(
  • val
)
protected

Sets the visible state for the UI

Parameters:

_uiSetWidth

(
  • val
)
protected

Sets the width on the widget's bounding box element

Parameters:

_uiSetYScrollWidth

(
  • width
)
protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:1235

Available since 3.5.0

Assigns the width of the <div> wrapping the data table in vertically scrolling tables.

If the table can't compress to the specified width, the container is expanded accordingly.

Parameters:

  • width String

    The CSS width to attempt to set

_uiSizeCB

(
  • expand
)
protected

Parameters:

_unbindDOM

() protected

_unbindScrollbar

() protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:1291

Available since 3.5.0

Detaches the scroll event subscriptions used to maintain scroll position parity between the scrollable <div> wrapper around the data table and the virtual scrollbar for vertically scrolling tables.

_unbindScrollResize

() protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:1306

Available since 3.5.0

Detaches the resize event subscription used to maintain column parity for vertically scrolling tables with percentage widths.

_unbindUI

() protected

_validateSortable

(
  • val
)
Boolean protected

Provided by the datatable-sort module.

Defined in datatable/js/sort.js:854

Available since 3.5.0

Allows values true, false, "auto", or arrays of column names through.

Parameters:

  • val Any

    The input value to set("sortable", VAL)

Returns:

_validateSortBy

(
  • val
)
Boolean protected

Provided by the datatable-sort module.

Defined in datatable/js/sort.js:867

Available since 3.5.0

Allows strings, arrays of strings, objects, or arrays of objects.

Parameters:

Returns:

_validateView

() protected

Inherited from DataTable.Base: datatable/js/base.js:523

Available since 3.5.0

Verifies the input value is a function with a render method on its prototype. null is also accepted to remove the default View.

_validTabIndex

(
  • tabIndex
)
protected

Parameters:

addAttr

(
  • name
  • config
  • lazy
)
Object chainable

Adds an attribute with the provided configuration to the host object.

The config argument object supports the following properties:

value <Any>
The initial value to set on the attribute
valueFn <Function | String>

A function, which will return the initial value to set on the attribute. This is useful for cases where the attribute configuration is defined statically, but needs to reference the host instance ("this") to obtain an initial value. If both the value and valueFn properties are defined, the value returned by the valueFn has precedence over the value property, unless it returns undefined, in which case the value property is used.

valueFn can also be set to a string, representing the name of the instance method to be used to retrieve the value.

readOnly <boolean>
Whether or not the attribute is read only. Attributes having readOnly set to true cannot be modified by invoking the set method.
writeOnce <boolean> or <string>
Whether or not the attribute is "write once". Attributes having writeOnce set to true, can only have their values set once, be it through the default configuration, constructor configuration arguments, or by invoking set.

The writeOnce attribute can also be set to the string "initOnly", in which case the attribute can only be set during initialization (when used with Base, this means it can only be set during construction)

setter <Function | String>

The setter function used to massage or normalize the value passed to the set method for the attribute. The value returned by the setter will be the final stored value. Returning Attribute.INVALID_VALUE, from the setter will prevent the value from being stored.

setter can also be set to a string, representing the name of the instance method to be used as the setter function.

getter <Function | String>

The getter function used to massage or normalize the value returned by the get method for the attribute. The value returned by the getter function is the value which will be returned to the user when they invoke get.

getter can also be set to a string, representing the name of the instance method to be used as the getter function.

validator <Function | String>

The validator function invoked prior to setting the stored value. Returning false from the validator function will prevent the value from being stored.

validator can also be set to a string, representing the name of the instance method to be used as the validator function.

lazyAdd <boolean>
Whether or not to delay initialization of the attribute until the first call to get/set it. This flag can be used to over-ride lazy initialization on a per attribute basis, when adding multiple attributes through the addAttrs method.

The setter, getter and validator are invoked with the value and name passed in as the first and second arguments, and with the context ("this") set to the host object.

Configuration properties outside of the list mentioned above are considered private properties used internally by attribute, and are not intended for public use.

Parameters:

  • name String

    The name of the attribute.

  • config Object

    An object with attribute configuration property/value pairs, specifying the configuration for the attribute.

    NOTE: The configuration object is modified when adding an attribute, so if you need to protect the original values, you will need to merge the object.

  • lazy Boolean

    (optional) Whether or not to add this attribute lazily (on the first call to get/set).

Returns:

Object: A reference to the host object.

addAttrs

(
  • cfgs
  • values
  • lazy
)
Object chainable

Configures a group of attributes, and sets initial values.

NOTE: This method does not isolate the configuration object by merging/cloning. The caller is responsible for merging/cloning the configuration object if required.

Parameters:

  • cfgs Object

    An object with attribute name/configuration pairs.

  • values Object

    An object with attribute name/value pairs, defining the initial values to apply. Values defined in the cfgs argument will be over-written by values in this argument unless defined as read only.

  • lazy Boolean

    Whether or not to delay the intialization of these attributes until the first call to get/set. Individual attributes can over-ride this behavior by defining a lazyAdd configuration property in their configuration. See addAttr.

Returns:

Object: A reference to the host object.

addColumn

(
  • config
  • [index]
)
DataTable chainable

Provided by the datatable-mutable module.

Defined in datatable/js/mutable.js:60

Available since 3.5.0

Adds the column configuration to the DataTable's columns configuration. If the index parameter is supplied, it is injected at that index. If the table has nested headers, inject a subcolumn by passing an array of indexes to identify the new column's final location.

The index parameter is required if adding a nested column.

This method is a convienience method for fetching the DataTable's columns attribute, updating it, and calling table.set('columns', _updatedColumnsDefs_)

For example:

// Becomes last column
table.addColumn('name');

// Inserted after the current second column, moving the current third column
// to index 4
table.addColumn({ key: 'price', formatter: currencyFormatter }, 2 );

// Insert a new column in a set of headers three rows deep.  The index array
// translates to
// [ 2, --  in the third column's children
//   1, --  in the second child's children
//   3 ] -- as the fourth child column
table.addColumn({ key: 'age', sortable: true }, [ 2, 1, 3 ]);

Parameters:

Returns:

addRow

(
  • data
  • [config]
  • [callback]
)
DataTable chainable

Provided by the datatable-mutable module.

Defined in datatable/js/mutable.js:198

Available since 3.5.0

Adds a new record to the DataTable's data ModelList. Record data can be an object of field values or an instance of the DataTable's configured recordType class.

This relays all parameters to the data ModelList's add method.

If a configuration object is passed as a second argument, and that object has sync: true set, the underlying Model will be save()d.

If the DataTable's autoSync attribute is set to true, the additional argument is not needed.

If syncing and the last argument is a function, that function will be used as a callback to the Model's save() method.

Parameters:

  • data Object

    The data or Model instance for the new record

  • [config] Object optional

    Configuration to pass along

  • [callback] Function optional

    Callback function for Model's save()

    • err Error | Null

      If an error occurred or validation failed, this parameter will contain the error. If the sync operation succeeded, err will be null.

    • response Any

      The server's response. This value will be passed to the parse() method, which is expected to parse it and return an attribute hash.

Returns:

addRows

(
  • data
  • [config]
  • [callback]
)
DataTable chainable

Provided by the datatable-mutable module.

Defined in datatable/js/mutable.js:552

Available since 3.5.0

Adds an array of new records to the DataTable's data ModelList. Record data can be an array of objects containing field values or an array of instance of the DataTable's configured recordType class.

This relays all parameters to the data ModelList's add method.

Technically, this is an alias to addRow, but please use the appropriately named method for readability.

If a configuration object is passed as a second argument, and that object has sync: true set, the underlying Models will be save()d.

If the DataTable's autoSync attribute is set to true, the additional argument is not needed.

If syncing and the last argument is a function, that function will be used as a callback to each Model's save() method.

Parameters:

  • data Object[]

    The data or Model instances to add

  • [config] Object optional

    Configuration to pass along

  • [callback] Function optional

    Callback function for each Model's save()

    • err Error | Null

      If an error occurred or validation failed, this parameter will contain the error. If the sync operation succeeded, err will be null.

    • response Any

      The server's response. This value will be passed to the parse() method, which is expected to parse it and return an attribute hash.

Returns:

addTarget

(
  • o
)

Registers another EventTarget as a bubble target. Bubble order is determined by the order registered. Multiple targets can be specified.

Events can only bubble if emitFacade is true.

Included in the event-custom-complex submodule.

Parameters:

after

(
  • type
  • fn
  • [context]
  • [arg*]
)
EventHandle

Subscribe to a custom event hosted by this object. The supplied callback will execute after any listeners add via the subscribe method, and after the default function, if configured for the event, has executed.

Parameters:

  • type String

    The name of the event

  • fn Function

    The callback to execute in response to the event

  • [context] Object optional

    Override this object in callback

  • [arg*] Any optional

    0..n additional arguments to supply to the subscriber

Returns:

EventHandle: A subscription handle capable of detaching the subscription

ancestor

(
  • depth
)
Widget

Returns the Widget instance at the specified depth.

Parameters:

  • depth Number

    Number representing the depth of the ancestor.

Returns:

Widget: Widget instance.

attrAdded

(
  • name
)
Boolean

Checks if the given attribute has been added to the host

Parameters:

  • name String

    The name of the attribute to check.

Returns:

Boolean: true if an attribute with the given name has been added, false if it hasn't. This method will return true for lazily added attributes.

before

()

Executes the callback before a DOM event, custom event or method. If the first argument is a function, it is assumed the target is a method. For DOM and custom events, this is an alias for Y.on.

For DOM and custom events: type, callback, context, 0-n arguments

For methods: callback, object (method host), methodName, context, 0-n arguments

Returns:

detach handle

bindUI

() protected

Inherited from Widget but overwritten in datatable/js/base.js:318

Available since 3.6.0

Attaches subscriptions to relay core change events to the view.

blur

() chainable

Causes the Widget to lose focus by setting the "focused" attribute to "false"

bubble

(
  • evt
)
Boolean

Propagate an event. Requires the event-custom-complex module.

Parameters:

Returns:

Boolean: the aggregated return value from Event.Custom.fire

delegate

(
  • type
  • fn
  • spec
  • context
  • args
)
EventHandle

Inherited from DataTable.Base: datatable/js/base.js:218

Available since 3.5.0

Pass through to delegate() called from the contentBox.

Parameters:

  • type String

    the event type to delegate

  • fn Function

    the callback function to execute. This function will be provided the event object for the delegated event.

  • spec String | Function

    a selector that must match the target of the event or a function to test target and its parents for a match

  • context Object

    optional argument that specifies what 'this' refers to

  • args Any multiple

    0..n additional arguments to pass on to the callback function. These arguments will be added after the event object.

Returns:

EventHandle: the detach handle

destroy

(
  • destroyAllNodes
)
Widget chainable

Inherited from BaseObservable but overwritten in widget/js/Widget.js:452

Destroy lifecycle method. Fires the destroy event, prior to invoking destructors for the class hierarchy. Overrides Base's implementation, to support arguments to destroy

Subscribers to the destroy event can invoke preventDefault on the event object, to prevent destruction from proceeding.

Parameters:

  • destroyAllNodes Boolean

    If true, all nodes contained within the Widget are removed and destroyed. Defaults to false due to potentially high run-time cost.

Returns:

Widget: A reference to this object

destructor

() protected

Inherited from Widget but overwritten in datatable/js/core.js:420

Available since 3.6.0

Tears down the instance.

destructor

() protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:585

Available since 3.5.0

Cleans up external event subscriptions.

detach

(
  • type
  • fn
  • context
)
EventTarget

Detach one or more listeners the from the specified event

Parameters:

  • type String | Object

    Either the handle to the subscriber or the type of event. If the type is not specified, it will attempt to remove the listener from all hosted events.

  • fn Function

    The subscribed function to unsubscribe, if not supplied, all subscribers will be removed.

  • context Object

    The custom object passed to subscribe. This is optional, but if supplied will be used to disambiguate multiple listeners that are the same (e.g., you subscribe many object using a function that lives on the prototype)

Returns:

EventTarget: the host

detachAll

(
  • type
)

Removes all listeners from the specified event. If the event type is not specified, all listeners from all hosted custom events will be removed.

Parameters:

  • type String

    The type, or name of the event

disable

() chainable

Set the Widget's "disabled" attribute to "true".

enable

() chainable

Set the Widget's "disabled" attribute to "false".

fire

(
  • type
  • arguments
)
EventTarget

Fire a custom event by name. The callback functions will be executed from the context specified when the event was created, and with the following parameters.

If the custom event object hasn't been created, then the event hasn't been published and it has no subscribers. For performance sake, we immediate exit in this case. This means the event won't bubble, so if the intention is that a bubble target be notified, the event must be published on this object first.

The first argument is the event type, and any additional arguments are passed to the listeners as parameters. If the first of these is an object literal, and the event is configured to emit an event facade, that object is mixed into the event facade and the facade is provided in place of the original object.

Parameters:

  • type String | Object

    The type of the event, or an object that contains a 'type' property.

  • arguments Object*

    an arbitrary set of parameters to pass to the handler. If the first of these is an object literal and the event is configured to emit an event facade, the event facade will replace that parameter after the properties the object literal contains are copied to the event facade.

Returns:

EventTarget: the event host

focus

() chainable

Causes the Widget to receive the focus by setting the "focused" attribute to "true".

get

(
  • name
)
Any

Returns the current value of the attribute. If the attribute has been configured with a 'getter' function, this method will delegate to the 'getter' to obtain the value of the attribute.

Parameters:

  • name String

    The name of the attribute. If the value of the attribute is an Object, dot notation can be used to obtain the value of a property of the object (e.g. get("x.y.z"))

Returns:

Any: The value of the attribute

getAttrs

(
  • attrs
)
Object

Gets multiple attribute values.

Parameters:

  • attrs Array | boolean

    Optional. An array of attribute names. If omitted, all attribute values are returned. If set to true, all attributes modified from their initial values are returned.

Returns:

Object: An object with attribute name/value pairs.

getCell

(
  • seed
  • [shift]
)
Node

Inherited from DataTable.Base: datatable/js/base.js:252

Available since 3.5.0

Returns the <td> Node from the given row and column index. Alternately, the seed can be a Node. If so, the nearest ancestor cell is returned. If the seed is a cell, it is returned. If there is no cell at the given coordinates, null is returned.

Optionally, include an offset array or string to return a cell near the cell identified by the seed. The offset can be an array containing the number of rows to shift followed by the number of columns to shift, or one of "above", "below", "next", or "previous".

// Previous cell in the previous row
var cell = table.getCell(e.target, [-1, -1]);

// Next cell var cell = table.getCell(e.target, 'next'); var cell = table.getCell(e.taregt, [0, 1];

This is actually just a pass through to the view instance's method by the same name.

Parameters:

  • seed Number[] | Node

    Array of row and column indexes, or a Node that is either the cell itself or a descendant of one.

  • [shift] Number[] | String optional

    Offset by which to identify the returned cell Node

Returns:

Node:

getClassName

(
  • args
)

Inherited from Widget but overwritten in widget/js/Widget.js:309

Generate a standard prefixed classname for the Widget, prefixed by the default prefix defined by the Y.config.classNamePrefix attribute used by ClassNameManager and Widget.NAME.toLowerCase() (e.g. "yui-widget-xxxxx-yyyyy", based on default values for the prefix and widget class name).

The instance based version of this method can be used to generate standard prefixed classnames, based on the instances NAME, as opposed to Widget.NAME. This method should be used when you need to use a constant class name across different types instances.

Parameters:

  • args String* multiple

    0..n strings which should be concatenated, using the default separator defined by ClassNameManager, to create the class name

getColumn

(
  • name
)
Object

Provided by the datatable-core module.

Defined in datatable/js/core.js:213

Available since 3.5.0

Gets the column configuration object for the given key, name, or index. For nested columns, name can be an array of indexes, each identifying the index of that column in the respective parent's "children" array.

If you pass a column object, it will be returned.

For columns with keys, you can also fetch the column with instance.get('columns.foo').

Parameters:

Returns:

Object: the column configuration object

getDefaultLocale

() String

Returns the default locale for the widget (the locale value defined by the widget class, or provided by the user during construction).

Returns:

String: The default locale for the widget

getEvent

(
  • type
  • prefixed
)
CustomEvent

Returns the custom event of the provided type has been created, a falsy value otherwise

Parameters:

  • type String

    the type, or name of the event

  • prefixed String

    if true, the type is prefixed already

Returns:

CustomEvent: the custom event or null

getRecord

(
  • seed
)
Model

Provided by the datatable-core module.

Defined in datatable/js/core.js:262

Available since 3.5.0

Returns the Model associated to the record id, clientId, or index (not row index). If none of those yield a Model from the data ModelList, the arguments will be passed to the view instance's getRecord method if it has one.

If no Model can be found, null is returned.

Parameters:

  • seed Number | String | Node

    Record id, clientId, index, Node, or identifier for a row or child element

Returns:

getRow

(
  • id
)
Node

Inherited from DataTable.Base: datatable/js/base.js:286

Available since 3.5.0

Returns the <tr> Node from the given row index, Model, or Model's clientId. If the rows haven't been rendered yet, or if the row can't be found by the input, null is returned.

This is actually just a pass through to the view instance's method by the same name.

Parameters:

Returns:

Node:

getSkinName

() String

Returns the name of the skin that's currently applied to the widget. This is only really useful after the widget's DOM structure is in the document, either by render or by progressive enhancement. Searches up the Widget's ancestor axis for a class yui3-skin-(name), and returns the (name) portion. Otherwise, returns null.

Returns:

String: the name of the skin, or null (yui3-skin-sam => sam)

getString

(
  • key
)
String deprecated

Inherited from Widget but overwritten in widget/js/Widget.js:1223

Deprecated: Used by deprecated WidgetLocale implementations.

Helper method to get a specific string value

Parameters:

Returns:

String: The string

getStrings

(
  • key
)
String deprecated

Inherited from Widget but overwritten in widget/js/Widget.js:1235

Deprecated: Used by deprecated WidgetLocale implementations.

Helper method to get the complete set of strings for the widget

Parameters:

Returns:

String: The strings

getTargets

()

Returns an array of bubble targets for this object.

Returns:

EventTarget[]

hide

() chainable

Hides the Widget by setting the "visible" attribute to "false".

hideMessage

() DataTable chainable

Provided by the datatable-message module.

Defined in datatable/js/message.js:56

Available since 3.5.0

Hides the message node.

Returns:

init

(
  • cfg
)
BaseCore chainable

Inherited from BaseObservable but overwritten in base/js/BaseCore.js:219

Init lifecycle method, invoked during construction. Sets up attributes and invokes initializers for the class hierarchy.

Parameters:

  • cfg Object

    Object with configuration property name/value pairs

Returns:

BaseCore: A reference to this object

initializer

(
  • config
)
protected

Provided by the datatable-core module.

Defined in datatable/js/core.js:597

Available since 3.5.0

Initializes the columns, recordType and data ModelList.

Parameters:

  • config Object

    Configuration object passed to constructor

initializer

() protected

Provided by the datatable-sort module.

Defined in datatable/js/sort.js:442

Available since 3.5.0

Sets up the initial sort state and instance properties. Publishes events and subscribes to attribute change events to maintain internal state.

initializer

() protected

Provided by the datatable-message module.

Defined in datatable/js/message.js:184

Available since 3.5.0

Merges in the message related strings and hooks into the rendering cycle to also render and bind the message node.

initializer

() protected

Provided by the datatable-mutable module.

Defined in datatable/js/mutable.js:530

Available since 3.5.0

Publishes the events used by the mutation methods:

  • addColumn
  • removeColumn
  • modifyColumn
  • moveColumn

initializer

(
  • config
)
protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:598

Available since 3.5.0

Sets up event handlers and AOP advice methods to bind the DataTable's natural behaviors with the scrolling APIs and state.

Parameters:

  • config Object

    The config object passed to the constructor (ignored)

initializer

() protected

Inherited from Widget but overwritten in datatable/js/colwidths.js:186

Available since 3.5.0

Hooks up to the rendering lifecycle to also render the <colgroup> and subscribe to columnChange events.

isRoot

() Boolean

Determines if the Widget is the root Widget in the object hierarchy.

Returns:

Boolean: Boolean indicating if Widget is the root Widget in the object hierarchy.

modifyAttr

(
  • name
  • config
)

Updates the configuration of an attribute which has already been added.

The properties which can be modified through this interface are limited to the following subset of attributes, which can be safely modified after a value has already been set on the attribute: readOnly, writeOnce, broadcast and getter.

Parameters:

  • name String

    The name of the attribute whose configuration is to be updated.

  • config Object

    An object with configuration property/value pairs, specifying the configuration properties to modify.

modifyColumn

(
  • name
  • config
)
DataTable chainable

Provided by the datatable-mutable module.

Defined in datatable/js/mutable.js:114

Available since 3.5.0

Updates an existing column definition. Fires the modifyColumn event.

For example:

// Add a formatter to the existing 'price' column definition
table.modifyColumn('price', { formatter: currencyFormatter });

// Change the label on a header cell in a set of nested headers three rows
// deep.  The index array translates to
// [ 2,  -- in the third column's children
//   1,  -- the second child
//   3 ] -- the fourth child column
table.modifyColumn([2, 1, 3], { label: 'Experience' });

Parameters:

Returns:

modifyRow

(
  • id
  • data
  • [config]
  • [callback]
)
DataTable chainable

Provided by the datatable-mutable module.

Defined in datatable/js/mutable.js:329

Available since 3.5.0

Updates an existing record in the DataTable's data ModelList. The record can be provided explicitly or targeted by it's id (see ModelList's getById method), clientId, or index in the ModelList.

After locating the target Model, this relays the all other passed arguments to the Model's setAttrs method.

If a configuration object is passed as a second argument, and that object has sync: true set, the underlying Model will be save()d.

If the DataTable's autoSync attribute is set to true, the additional argument is not needed.

If syncing and the last argument is a function, that function will be used as a callback to the Model's save() method.

Parameters:

  • id Object | String | Number

    The Model instance or identifier

  • data Object

    New data values for the Model

  • [config] Object optional

    Configuration to pass along to setAttrs()

  • [callback] Function optional

    Callback function for Model's save()

    • err Error | Null

      If an error occurred or validation failed, this parameter will contain the error. If the sync operation succeeded, err will be null.

    • response Any

      The server's response. This value will be passed to the parse() method, which is expected to parse it and return an attribute hash.

Returns:

moveColumn

(
  • name
  • index
)
DataTable chainable

Provided by the datatable-mutable module.

Defined in datatable/js/mutable.js:153

Available since 3.5.0

Moves an existing column to a new location. Fires the moveColumn event.

The destination index can be a number or array of numbers to place a column header in a nested header row.

Parameters:

Returns:

next

(
  • circular
)
Widget

Returns the Widget's next sibling.

Parameters:

  • circular Boolean

    Boolean indicating if the parent's first child should be returned if the child has no next sibling.

Returns:

Widget: Widget instance.

on

(
  • type
  • fn
  • [context]
  • [arg*]
)
EventHandle

Subscribe a callback function to a custom event fired by this object or from an object that bubbles its events to this object.

Callback functions for events published with emitFacade = true will receive an EventFacade as the first argument (typically named "e"). These callbacks can then call e.preventDefault() to disable the behavior published to that event's defaultFn. See the EventFacade API for all available properties and methods. Subscribers to non-emitFacade events will receive the arguments passed to fire() after the event name.

To subscribe to multiple events at once, pass an object as the first argument, where the key:value pairs correspond to the eventName:callback, or pass an array of event names as the first argument to subscribe to all listed events with the same callback.

Returning false from a callback is supported as an alternative to calling e.preventDefault(); e.stopPropagation();. However, it is recommended to use the event methods whenever possible.

Parameters:

  • type String

    The name of the event

  • fn Function

    The callback to execute in response to the event

  • [context] Object optional

    Override this object in callback

  • [arg*] Any optional

    0..n additional arguments to supply to the subscriber

Returns:

EventHandle: A subscription handle capable of detaching that subscription

once

(
  • type
  • fn
  • [context]
  • [arg*]
)
EventHandle

Listen to a custom event hosted by this object one time. This is the equivalent to on except the listener is immediatelly detached when it is executed.

Parameters:

  • type String

    The name of the event

  • fn Function

    The callback to execute in response to the event

  • [context] Object optional

    Override this object in callback

  • [arg*] Any optional

    0..n additional arguments to supply to the subscriber

Returns:

EventHandle: A subscription handle capable of detaching the subscription

onceAfter

(
  • type
  • fn
  • [context]
  • [arg*]
)
EventHandle

Listen to a custom event hosted by this object one time. This is the equivalent to after except the listener is immediatelly detached when it is executed.

Parameters:

  • type String

    The name of the event

  • fn Function

    The callback to execute in response to the event

  • [context] Object optional

    Override this object in callback

  • [arg*] Any optional

    0..n additional arguments to supply to the subscriber

Returns:

EventHandle: A subscription handle capable of detaching that subscription

parseType

(
  • type
  • [pre=this._yuievt.config.prefix]
)
Array

Inherited from EventTarget: event-custom/js/event-target.js:171

Available since 3.3.0

Takes the type parameter passed to 'on' and parses out the various pieces that could be included in the type. If the event type is passed without a prefix, it will be expanded to include the prefix one is supplied or the event target is configured with a default prefix.

Parameters:

  • type String

    the type

  • [pre=this._yuievt.config.prefix] String optional

    the prefix

Returns:

Array: an array containing: * the detach category, if supplied, * the prefixed event type, * whether or not this is an after listener, * the supplied event type

previous

(
  • circular
)
Widget

Returns the Widget's previous sibling.

Parameters:

  • circular Boolean

    Boolean indicating if the parent's last child should be returned if the child has no previous sibling.

Returns:

Widget: Widget instance.

publish

(
  • type
  • opts
)
CustomEvent

Creates a new custom event of the specified type. If a custom event by that name already exists, it will not be re-created. In either case the custom event is returned.

Parameters:

  • type String

    the type, or name of the event

  • opts Object

    optional config params. Valid properties are:

    • 'broadcast': whether or not the YUI instance and YUI global are notified when the event is fired (false)
    • 'bubbles': whether or not this event bubbles (true) Events can only bubble if emitFacade is true.
    • 'context': the default execution context for the listeners (this)
    • 'defaultFn': the default function to execute when this event fires if preventDefault was not called
    • 'emitFacade': whether or not this event emits a facade (false)
    • 'prefix': the prefix for this targets events, e.g., 'menu' in 'menu:click'
    • 'fireOnce': if an event is configured to fire once, new subscribers after the fire will be notified immediately.
    • 'async': fireOnce event listeners will fire synchronously if the event has already fired unless async is true.
    • 'preventable': whether or not preventDefault() has an effect (true)
    • 'preventedFn': a function that is executed when preventDefault is called
    • 'queuable': whether or not this event can be queued during bubbling (false)
    • 'silent': if silent is true, debug messages are not provided for this event.
    • 'stoppedFn': a function that is executed when stopPropagation is called
    • 'monitored': specifies whether or not this event should send notifications about when the event has been attached, detached, or published.
    • 'type': the event type (valid option if not provided as the first parameter to publish)

Returns:

CustomEvent: the custom event

removeAttr

(
  • name
)

Removes an attribute from the host object

Parameters:

  • name String

    The name of the attribute to be removed.

removeColumn

(
  • name
)
DataTable chainable

Provided by the datatable-mutable module.

Defined in datatable/js/mutable.js:178

Available since 3.5.0

Removes an existing column. Fires the removeColumn event.

Parameters:

Returns:

removeRow

(
  • id
  • [config]
  • [callback]
)
DataTable chainable

Provided by the datatable-mutable module.

Defined in datatable/js/mutable.js:255

Available since 3.5.0

Removes a record from the DataTable's data ModelList. The record can be provided explicitly or targeted by it's id (see ModelList's getById method), clientId, or index in the ModelList.

After locating the target Model, this relays the Model and all other passed arguments to the data ModelList's remove method.

If a configuration object is passed as a second argument, and that object has sync: true set, the underlying Model will be destroyed, passing { delete: true } to trigger calling the Model's sync layer.

If the DataTable's autoSync attribute is set to true, the additional argument is not needed.

If syncing and the last argument is a function, that function will be used as a callback to the Model's destroy() method.

Parameters:

  • id Object | String | Number

    The Model instance or identifier

  • [config] Object optional

    Configuration to pass along

  • [callback] Function optional

    Callback function for Model's save()

    • err Error | Null

      If an error occurred or validation failed, this parameter will contain the error. If the sync operation succeeded, err will be null.

    • response Any

      The server's response. This value will be passed to the parse() method, which is expected to parse it and return an attribute hash.

Returns:

removeTarget

(
  • o
)

Removes a bubble target

Parameters:

render

(
  • parentNode
)
final chainable

Establishes the initial DOM for the widget. Invoking this method will lead to the creating of all DOM elements for the widget (or the manipulation of existing DOM elements for the progressive enhancement use case).

This method should only be invoked once for an initialized widget.

It delegates to the widget specific renderer method to do the actual work.

Parameters:

  • parentNode Object | String

    Optional. The Node under which the Widget is to be rendered. This can be a Node instance or a CSS selector string.

    If the selector string returns more than one Node, the first node will be used as the parentNode. NOTE: This argument is required if both the boundingBox and contentBox are not currently in the document. If it's not provided, the Widget will be rendered to the body of the current document in this case.

renderer

() protected

Creates DOM (or manipulates DOM for progressive enhancement) This method is invoked by render() and is not chained automatically for the class hierarchy (unlike initializer, destructor) so it should be chained manually for subclasses if required.

renderUI

() protected

Adds nodes to the DOM

This method is not called by framework and is not chained automatically for the class hierarchy.

reset

(
  • name
)
Object chainable

Resets the attribute (or all attributes) to its initial value, as long as the attribute is not readOnly, or writeOnce.

Parameters:

  • name String

    Optional. The name of the attribute to reset. If omitted, all attributes are reset.

Returns:

Object: A reference to the host object.

scrollTo

(
  • id
)
DataTable chainable

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:78

Available since 3.5.0

Scrolls a given row or cell into view if the table is scrolling. Pass the clientId of a Model from the DataTable's data ModelList or its row index to scroll to a row or a [row index, column index] array to scroll to a cell. Alternately, to scroll to any element contained within the table's scrolling areas, pass its ID, or the Node itself (though you could just as well call node.scrollIntoView() yourself, but hey, whatever).

Parameters:

Returns:

set

(
  • name
  • value
)
Object chainable

Sets the value of an attribute.

Parameters:

  • name String

    The name of the attribute. If the current value of the attribute is an Object, dot notation can be used to set the value of a property within the object (e.g. set("x.y.z", 5)).

  • value Any

    The value to set the attribute to.

Returns:

Object: A reference to the host object.

setAttrs

(
  • attrs
)
Object chainable

Sets multiple attribute values.

Parameters:

  • attrs Object

    An object with attributes name/value pairs.

Returns:

Object: A reference to the host object.

setColumnWidth

(
  • id
  • width
)
DataTable chainable

Provided by the datatable-column-widths module.

Defined in datatable/js/colwidths.js:138

Available since 3.5.0

Assigns the style width of the <col> representing the column identifed by id and updates the column configuration.

Pass the empty string for width to return a column to auto sizing.

This does not trigger a columnsChange event today, but I can be convinced that it should.

Parameters:

  • id Number | String | Object

    The column config object or key, name, or index of a column in the host's _displayColumns array.

  • width Number | String

    CSS width value. Numbers are treated as pixels

Returns:

show

() chainable

Shows the Widget by setting the "visible" attribute to "true".

showMessage

(
  • message
)
DataTable chainable

Provided by the datatable-message module.

Defined in datatable/js/message.js:71

Available since 3.5.0

Display the message node and set its content to message. If there is a localized strings entry for the value of message, that string will be used.

Parameters:

  • message String

    The message name or message itself to display

Returns:

sort

(
  • fields
  • [payload]
)
DataTable chainable

Provided by the datatable-sort module.

Defined in datatable/js/sort.js:173

Available since 3.5.0

Sort the data in the data ModelList and refresh the table with the new order.

Acceptable values for fields are key strings or objects with a single property, the column key, with a value of 1, -1, "asc", or "desc". E.g. { username: 'asc' }. String values are assumed to be ascending.

Example values would be:

  • "username" - sort by the data's username field or the key associated to a column with that name.
  • { username: "desc" } - sort by username in descending order. Alternately, use values "asc", 1 (same as "asc"), or -1 (same as "desc").
  • ["lastName", "firstName"] - ascending sort by lastName, but for records with the same lastName, ascending subsort by firstName. Array can have as many items as you want.
  • [{ lastName: -1 }, "firstName"] - descending sort by lastName, ascending subsort by firstName. Mixed types are ok.

Parameters:

Returns:

subscribe

() deprecated

Inherited from EventTarget: event-custom/js/event-target.js:334

Deprecated: use on

subscribe to an event

syncUI

()

Inherited from Widget but overwritten in datatable/js/base.js:511

Available since 3.5.0

Fires the renderView event, delegating UI updates to the configured View.

toggleSort

(
  • fields
  • [payload]
)
DataTable chainable

Provided by the datatable-sort module.

Defined in datatable/js/sort.js:229

Available since 3.5.0

Reverse the current sort direction of one or more fields currently being sorted by.

Pass the key of the column or columns you want the sort order reversed for.

Parameters:

  • fields String | String[]

    The field(s) to reverse sort order for

  • [payload] Object optional

    Extra sort event payload you want to send along

Returns:

toString

() String

Inherited from BaseCore but overwritten in widget/js/Widget.js:1105

Generic toString implementation for all widgets.

Returns:

String: The default string value for the widget [ displays the NAME of the instance, and the unique id ]

unsubscribe

() deprecated

Inherited from EventTarget: event-custom/js/event-target.js:454

Deprecated: use detach

detach a listener

unsubscribeAll

(
  • type
)
deprecated

Inherited from EventTarget: event-custom/js/event-target.js:475

Deprecated: use detachAll

Removes all listeners from the specified event. If the event type is not specified, all listeners from all hosted custom events will be removed.

Parameters:

  • type String

    The type, or name of the event

Properties

_allowAdHocAttrs

Boolean protected

Inherited from BaseCore but overwritten in datatable/js/core.js:295

Available since 3.6.0

This tells Y.Base that it should create ad-hoc attributes for config properties passed to DataTable's constructor. This is useful for setting configurations on the DataTable that are intended for the rendering View(s).

Default: true

_CAPTION_TABLE_TEMPLATE

HTML protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:119

Available since 3.5.0

Template for the <table> that is used to fix the caption in place when the table is horizontally scrolling.

_columnMap

Object protected

Provided by the datatable-core module.

Defined in datatable/js/core.js:308

Available since 3.5.0

A map of column key to column configuration objects parsed from the columns attribute.

Default: undefined (initially unset)

_displayColumns

Object[]

Inherited from DataTable.Base: datatable/js/base.js:376

Available since 3.5.0

Array of the columns that correspond to those with value cells in the data rows. Excludes colspan header columns (configured with children).

_messageNode

Node

Provided by the datatable-message module.

Defined in datatable/js/message.js:237

Available since 3.5.0

Node used to display messages from showMessage.

_SCROLL_LINER_TEMPLATE

HTML protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:131

Available since 3.5.0

Template used to create sizable element liners around header content to synchronize fixed header column widths.

_SCROLLBAR_TEMPLATE

HTML protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:143

Available since 3.5.0

Template for the virtual scrollbar needed in "y" and "xy" scrolling setups.

_sortable

Object[] protected

Provided by the datatable-sort module.

Defined in datatable/js/sort.js:714

Available since 3.5.0

Array of column configuration objects of those columns that need UI setup for user interaction.

_sortBy

Object[] protected

Provided by the datatable-sort module.

Defined in datatable/js/sort.js:725

Available since 3.5.0

Array of column configuration objects for those columns that are currently being used to sort the data. Fake column objects are used for fields that are not rendered as columns.

_tableNode

Node protected

Provided by the datatable-core module.

Defined in datatable/js/core.js:320

Available since 3.5.0

The Node instance of the table containing the data rows. This is set when the table is rendered. It may also be set by progressive enhancement, though this extension does not provide the logic to parse from source.

Default: undefined (initially unset)

_UI_ATTRS

Object private

The lists of UI attributes to bind and sync for widget's _bindUI and _syncUI implementations

_X_SCROLLER_TEMPLATE

HTML protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:154

Available since 3.5.0

Template for the <div> that is used to contain the table when the table is horizontally scrolling.

_xScroll

Boolean private

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:1321

Available since 3.5.0

Indicates horizontal table scrolling is enabled.

Default: undefined (not initially set)

_xScrollNode

Node protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:1365

Available since 3.5.0

Overflow Node used to contain the table headers and data in a horizontally scrolling table.

Default: undefined (not initially set)

_Y_SCROLL_HEADER_TEMPLATE

HTML protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:166

Available since 3.5.0

Template for the <table> used to contain the fixed column headers for vertically scrolling tables.

_Y_SCROLLER_TEMPLATE

HTML protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:178

Available since 3.5.0

Template for the <div> that is used to contain the rows when the table is vertically scrolling.

_yScroll

Boolean private

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:1332

Available since 3.5.0

Indicates vertical table scrolling is enabled.

Default: undefined (not initially set)

_yScrollHeader

Node protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:1343

Available since 3.5.0

Fixed column header <table> Node for vertical scrolling tables.

Default: undefined (not initially set)

_yScrollNode

Node protected

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:1354

Available since 3.5.0

Overflow Node used to contain the data rows in a vertically scrolling table.

Default: undefined (not initially set)

BOUNDING_TEMPLATE

String

Property defining the markup template for bounding box.

COL_TEMPLATE

HTML

Provided by the datatable-column-widths module.

Defined in datatable/js/colwidths.js:118

Available since 3.5.0

The HTML template used to create the table's <col>s.

Default: '<col/>'

COLGROUP_TEMPLATE

HTML

Provided by the datatable-column-widths module.

Defined in datatable/js/colwidths.js:128

Available since 3.5.0

The HTML template used to create the table's <colgroup>.

Default: '<colgroup/>'

CONTENT_TEMPLATE

String

Property defining the markup template for content box. If your Widget doesn't need the dual boundingBox/contentBox structure, set CONTENT_TEMPLATE to null, and contentBox and boundingBox will both point to the same Node.

data

ModelList

Provided by the datatable-core module.

Defined in datatable/js/core.js:201

Available since 3.5.0

The ModelList that manages the table's data.

Default: undefined (initially unset)

DEF_PARENT_NODE

String | Node

Default node to render the bounding box to. If not set, will default to the current document body.

DEF_UNIT

String

Default unit to use for dimension values

MESSAGE_TEMPLATE

HTML

Provided by the datatable-message module.

Defined in datatable/js/message.js:46

Available since 3.5.0

Template used to generate the node that will be used to report messages.

Default: <tbody class="{className}"><td class="{contentClass}" colspan="{colspan}"></td></tbody>

name

String deprecated

Inherited from BaseCore: base/js/BaseCore.js:197

Deprecated: Use this.constructor.NAME

The string used to identify the class of this object.

SORTABLE_HEADER_TEMPLATE

HTML

Provided by the datatable-sort module.

Defined in datatable/js/sort.js:218

Available since 3.5.0

Template for the node that will wrap the header content for sortable columns.

UI_EVENTS

Object

Map of DOM events that should be fired as Custom Events by the
Widget instance.

Attributes

autoSync

Boolean

Provided by the datatable-mutable module.

Defined in datatable/js/mutable.js:40

Available since 3.5.0

Controls whether addRow, removeRow, and modifyRow should trigger the underlying Model's sync layer by default.

When true, it is unnecessary to pass the "sync" configuration property to those methods to trigger per-operation sync.

Default: `false`

Fires event autoSyncChange

Fires when the value for the configuration attribute autoSync is changed. You can listen for the event using the on method if you wish to be notified before the attribute's value has changed, or using the after method if you wish to be notified after the attribute's value has changed.

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade
    An Event Facade object with the following attribute-specific properties added:
    • prevVal Any
      The value of the attribute, prior to it being set.
    • newVal Any
      The value the attribute is to be set to.
    • attrName String
      The name of the attribute being set.
    • subAttrName String
      If setting a property within the attribute's value, the name of the sub-attribute property being set.

bodyConfig

Object protected

Inherited from DataTable.Base: datatable/js/base.js:661

Available since 3.6.0

Configuration object passed to the class constructor in bodyView during render.

Default: undefined (initially unset)

Fires event bodyConfigChange

Fires when the value for the configuration attribute bodyConfig is changed. You can listen for the event using the on method if you wish to be notified before the attribute's value has changed, or using the after method if you wish to be notified after the attribute's value has changed.

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade
    An Event Facade object with the following attribute-specific properties added:
    • prevVal Any
      The value of the attribute, prior to it being set.
    • newVal Any
      The value the attribute is to be set to.
    • attrName String
      The name of the attribute being set.
    • subAttrName String
      If setting a property within the attribute's value, the name of the sub-attribute property being set.

bodyView

Function

Inherited from DataTable.Base: datatable/js/base.js:638

Available since 3.5.0

If the View class assigned to the DataTable's view attribute supports it, this class will be used for rendering the contents of the <tbody> including all data rows.

Similar to view, the instance of this View will be assigned to the DataTable instance's body property.

It is not strictly necessary that the class function assigned here be a View subclass. It must however have a render() method.

Default: Y.DataTable.BodyView

Fires event bodyViewChange

Fires when the value for the configuration attribute bodyView is changed. You can listen for the event using the on method if you wish to be notified before the attribute's value has changed, or using the after method if you wish to be notified after the attribute's value has changed.

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade
    An Event Facade object with the following attribute-specific properties added:
    • prevVal Any
      The value of the attribute, prior to it being set.
    • newVal Any
      The value the attribute is to be set to.
    • attrName String
      The name of the attribute being set.
    • subAttrName String
      If setting a property within the attribute's value, the name of the sub-attribute property being set.

boundingBox

String | Node

The outermost DOM node for the Widget, used for sizing and positioning of a Widget as well as a containing element for any decorator elements used for skinning.

Fires event boundingBoxChange

Fires when the value for the configuration attribute boundingBox is changed. You can listen for the event using the on method if you wish to be notified before the attribute's value has changed, or using the after method if you wish to be notified after the attribute's value has changed.

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade
    An Event Facade object with the following attribute-specific properties added:
    • prevVal Any
      The value of the attribute, prior to it being set.
    • newVal Any
      The value the attribute is to be set to.
    • attrName String
      The name of the attribute being set.
    • subAttrName String
      If setting a property within the attribute's value, the name of the sub-attribute property being set.

caption

HTML

Provided by the datatable-core module.

Defined in datatable/js/core.js:153

Available since 3.5.0

HTML content of an optional <caption> element to appear above the table. Leave this config unset or set to a falsy value to remove the caption.

Default: '' (empty string)

Fires event captionChange

Fires when the value for the configuration attribute caption is changed. You can listen for the event using the on method if you wish to be notified before the attribute's value has changed, or using the after method if you wish to be notified after the attribute's value has changed.

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade
    An Event Facade object with the following attribute-specific properties added:
    • prevVal Any
      The value of the attribute, prior to it being set.
    • newVal Any
      The value the attribute is to be set to.
    • attrName String
      The name of the attribute being set.
    • subAttrName String
      If setting a property within the attribute's value, the name of the sub-attribute property being set.

columns

Object[] | String[]

Provided by the datatable-core module.

Defined in datatable/js/core.js:39

Available since 3.5.0

Columns to include in the rendered table.

If omitted, the attributes on the configured recordType or the first item in the data collection will be used as a source.

This attribute takes an array of strings or objects (mixing the two is fine). Each string or object is considered a column to be rendered. Strings are converted to objects, so columns: ['first', 'last'] becomes columns: [{ key: 'first' }, { key: 'last' }].

DataTable.Core only concerns itself with a few properties of columns. These properties are:

  • key - Used to identify the record field/attribute containing content for this column. Also used to create a default Model if no recordType or data are provided during construction. If name is not specified, this is assigned to the _id property (with added incrementer if the key is used by multiple columns).
  • children - Traversed to initialize nested column objects
  • name - Used in place of, or in addition to, the key. Useful for columns that aren't bound to a field/attribute in the record data. This is assigned to the _id property.
  • id - For backward compatibility. Implementers can specify the id of the header cell. This should be avoided, if possible, to avoid the potential for creating DOM elements with duplicate IDs.
  • field - For backward compatibility. Implementers should use name.
  • _id - Assigned unique-within-this-instance id for a column. By order of preference, assumes the value of name, key, id, or _yuid. This is used by the rendering views as well as feature module as a means to identify a specific column without ambiguity (such as multiple columns using the same key.
  • _yuid - Guid stamp assigned to the column object.
  • _parent - Assigned to all child columns, referencing their parent column.

Default: (from `recordType` ATTRS or first item in the `data`)

Fires event columnsChange

Fires when the value for the configuration attribute columns is changed. You can listen for the event using the on method if you wish to be notified before the attribute's value has changed, or using the after method if you wish to be notified after the attribute's value has changed.

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade
    An Event Facade object with the following attribute-specific properties added:
    • prevVal Any
      The value of the attribute, prior to it being set.
    • newVal Any
      The value the attribute is to be set to.
    • attrName String
      The name of the attribute being set.
    • subAttrName String
      If setting a property within the attribute's value, the name of the sub-attribute property being set.

columnset

Object[] deprecated

Provided by the datatable-core module.

Defined in datatable/js/core.js:181

Deprecated: Use the `columns` attribute

Available since 3.5.0

Deprecated as of 3.5.0. Passes through to the columns attribute.

WARNING: get('columnset') will NOT return a Columnset instance as of 3.5.0. This is a break in backward compatibility.

Fires event columnsetChange

Fires when the value for the configuration attribute columnset is changed. You can listen for the event using the on method if you wish to be notified before the attribute's value has changed, or using the after method if you wish to be notified after the attribute's value has changed.

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade
    An Event Facade object with the following attribute-specific properties added:
    • prevVal Any
      The value of the attribute, prior to it being set.
    • newVal Any
      The value the attribute is to be set to.
    • attrName String
      The name of the attribute being set.
    • subAttrName String
      If setting a property within the attribute's value, the name of the sub-attribute property being set.

contentBox

String | Node

A DOM node that is a direct descendant of a Widget's bounding box that houses its content.

Fires event contentBoxChange

Fires when the value for the configuration attribute contentBox is changed. You can listen for the event using the on method if you wish to be notified before the attribute's value has changed, or using the after method if you wish to be notified after the attribute's value has changed.

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade
    An Event Facade object with the following attribute-specific properties added:
    • prevVal Any
      The value of the attribute, prior to it being set.
    • newVal Any
      The value the attribute is to be set to.
    • attrName String
      The name of the attribute being set.
    • subAttrName String
      If setting a property within the attribute's value, the name of the sub-attribute property being set.

data

ModelList | Object[]

Provided by the datatable-core module.

Defined in datatable/js/core.js:119

Available since 3.5.0

The collection of data records to display. This attribute is a pass through to a data property, which is a ModelList instance.

If this attribute is passed a ModelList or subclass, it will be assigned to the property directly. If an array of objects is passed, a new ModelList will be created using the configured recordType as its model property and seeded with the array.

Retrieving this attribute will return the ModelList stored in the data property.

Default: `new ModelList()`

Fires event dataChange

Fires when the value for the configuration attribute data is changed. You can listen for the event using the on method if you wish to be notified before the attribute's value has changed, or using the after method if you wish to be notified after the attribute's value has changed.

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade
    An Event Facade object with the following attribute-specific properties added:
    • prevVal Any
      The value of the attribute, prior to it being set.
    • newVal Any
      The value the attribute is to be set to.
    • attrName String
      The name of the attribute being set.
    • subAttrName String
      If setting a property within the attribute's value, the name of the sub-attribute property being set.

destroyed

Boolean readonly

Flag indicating whether or not this object has been through the destroy lifecycle phase.

Default: false

Fires event destroyedChange

Fires when the value for the configuration attribute destroyed is changed. You can listen for the event using the on method if you wish to be notified before the attribute's value has changed, or using the after method if you wish to be notified after the attribute's value has changed.

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade
    An Event Facade object with the following attribute-specific properties added:
    • prevVal Any
      The value of the attribute, prior to it being set.
    • newVal Any
      The value the attribute is to be set to.
    • attrName String
      The name of the attribute being set.
    • subAttrName String
      If setting a property within the attribute's value, the name of the sub-attribute property being set.

disabled

Boolean

Boolean indicating if the Widget should be disabled. The disabled implementation is left to the specific classes extending widget.

Default: false

Fires event disabledChange

Fires when the value for the configuration attribute disabled is changed. You can listen for the event using the on method if you wish to be notified before the attribute's value has changed, or using the after method if you wish to be notified after the attribute's value has changed.

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade
    An Event Facade object with the following attribute-specific properties added:
    • prevVal Any
      The value of the attribute, prior to it being set.
    • newVal Any
      The value the attribute is to be set to.
    • attrName String
      The name of the attribute being set.
    • subAttrName String
      If setting a property within the attribute's value, the name of the sub-attribute property being set.

focused

Boolean readonly

Boolean indicating if the Widget, or one of its descendants, has focus.

Default: false

Fires event focusedChange

Fires when the value for the configuration attribute focused is changed. You can listen for the event using the on method if you wish to be notified before the attribute's value has changed, or using the after method if you wish to be notified after the attribute's value has changed.

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade
    An Event Facade object with the following attribute-specific properties added:
    • prevVal Any
      The value of the attribute, prior to it being set.
    • newVal Any
      The value the attribute is to be set to.
    • attrName String
      The name of the attribute being set.
    • subAttrName String
      If setting a property within the attribute's value, the name of the sub-attribute property being set.

footerConfig

Object protected

Inherited from DataTable.Base: datatable/js/base.js:626

Available since 3.6.0

Configuration object passed to the class constructor in footerView during render.

Default: undefined (initially unset)

Fires event footerConfigChange

Fires when the value for the configuration attribute footerConfig is changed. You can listen for the event using the on method if you wish to be notified before the attribute's value has changed, or using the after method if you wish to be notified after the attribute's value has changed.

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade
    An Event Facade object with the following attribute-specific properties added:
    • prevVal Any
      The value of the attribute, prior to it being set.
    • newVal Any
      The value the attribute is to be set to.
    • attrName String
      The name of the attribute being set.
    • subAttrName String
      If setting a property within the attribute's value, the name of the sub-attribute property being set.

footerView

Function | Object

Inherited from DataTable.Base: datatable/js/base.js:606

Available since 3.5.0

If the View class assigned to the DataTable's view attribute supports it, this class will be used for rendering the contents of the <tfoot>.

Similar to view, the instance of this View will be assigned to the DataTable instance's foot property.

It is not strictly necessary that the class function assigned here be a View subclass. It must however have a render() method.

Fires event footerViewChange

Fires when the value for the configuration attribute footerView is changed. You can listen for the event using the on method if you wish to be notified before the attribute's value has changed, or using the after method if you wish to be notified after the attribute's value has changed.

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade
    An Event Facade object with the following attribute-specific properties added:
    • prevVal Any
      The value of the attribute, prior to it being set.
    • newVal Any
      The value the attribute is to be set to.
    • attrName String
      The name of the attribute being set.
    • subAttrName String
      If setting a property within the attribute's value, the name of the sub-attribute property being set.

headerConfig

Object protected

Inherited from DataTable.Base: datatable/js/base.js:594

Available since 3.6.0

Configuration object passed to the class constructor in headerView during render.

Default: undefined (initially unset)

Fires event headerConfigChange

Fires when the value for the configuration attribute headerConfig is changed. You can listen for the event using the on method if you wish to be notified before the attribute's value has changed, or using the after method if you wish to be notified after the attribute's value has changed.

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade
    An Event Facade object with the following attribute-specific properties added:
    • prevVal Any
      The value of the attribute, prior to it being set.
    • newVal Any
      The value the attribute is to be set to.
    • attrName String
      The name of the attribute being set.
    • subAttrName String
      If setting a property within the attribute's value, the name of the sub-attribute property being set.

headerView

Function | Object

Inherited from DataTable.Base: datatable/js/base.js:571

Available since 3.5.0

If the View class assigned to the DataTable's view attribute supports it, this class will be used for rendering the contents of the <thead>—the column headers for the table.

Similar to view, the instance of this View will be assigned to the DataTable instance's head property.

It is not strictly necessary that the class function assigned here be a View subclass. It must however have a render() method.

Default: Y.DataTable.HeaderView

Fires event headerViewChange

Fires when the value for the configuration attribute headerView is changed. You can listen for the event using the on method if you wish to be notified before the attribute's value has changed, or using the after method if you wish to be notified after the attribute's value has changed.

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade
    An Event Facade object with the following attribute-specific properties added:
    • prevVal Any
      The value of the attribute, prior to it being set.
    • newVal Any
      The value the attribute is to be set to.
    • attrName String
      The name of the attribute being set.
    • subAttrName String
      If setting a property within the attribute's value, the name of the sub-attribute property being set.

height

String | Number

String with units, or number, representing the height of the Widget. If a number is provided, the default unit, defined by the Widgets DEF_UNIT, property is used.

Default: EMPTY_STR

Fires event heightChange

Fires when the value for the configuration attribute height is changed. You can listen for the event using the on method if you wish to be notified before the attribute's value has changed, or using the after method if you wish to be notified after the attribute's value has changed.

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade
    An Event Facade object with the following attribute-specific properties added:
    • prevVal Any
      The value of the attribute, prior to it being set.
    • newVal Any
      The value the attribute is to be set to.
    • attrName String
      The name of the attribute being set.
    • subAttrName String
      If setting a property within the attribute's value, the name of the sub-attribute property being set.

id

String

Default: Generated using guid()

Fires event idChange

Fires when the value for the configuration attribute id is changed. You can listen for the event using the on method if you wish to be notified before the attribute's value has changed, or using the after method if you wish to be notified after the attribute's value has changed.

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade
    An Event Facade object with the following attribute-specific properties added:
    • prevVal Any
      The value of the attribute, prior to it being set.
    • newVal Any
      The value the attribute is to be set to.
    • attrName String
      The name of the attribute being set.
    • subAttrName String
      If setting a property within the attribute's value, the name of the sub-attribute property being set.

initialized

Boolean readonly

Flag indicating whether or not this object has been through the init lifecycle phase.

Default: false

Fires event initializedChange

Fires when the value for the configuration attribute initialized is changed. You can listen for the event using the on method if you wish to be notified before the attribute's value has changed, or using the after method if you wish to be notified after the attribute's value has changed.

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade
    An Event Facade object with the following attribute-specific properties added:
    • prevVal Any
      The value of the attribute, prior to it being set.
    • newVal Any
      The value the attribute is to be set to.
    • attrName String
      The name of the attribute being set.
    • subAttrName String
      If setting a property within the attribute's value, the name of the sub-attribute property being set.

locale

String deprecated

Inherited from Widget: widget/js/WidgetLocale.js:14

Deprecated: Use Y.config.lang and Y.Intl externalization support

The default locale for the widget. NOTE: Using get/set on the "strings" attribute will return/set strings for this locale.

Default: "en"

Fires event localeChange

Fires when the value for the configuration attribute locale is changed. You can listen for the event using the on method if you wish to be notified before the attribute's value has changed, or using the after method if you wish to be notified after the attribute's value has changed.

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade
    An Event Facade object with the following attribute-specific properties added:
    • prevVal Any
      The value of the attribute, prior to it being set.
    • newVal Any
      The value the attribute is to be set to.
    • attrName String
      The name of the attribute being set.
    • subAttrName String
      If setting a property within the attribute's value, the name of the sub-attribute property being set.

recordset

Object[] | Recordset deprecated

Provided by the datatable-core module.

Defined in datatable/js/core.js:164

Deprecated: Use the `data` attribute

Available since 3.5.0

Deprecated as of 3.5.0. Passes through to the data attribute.

WARNING: get('recordset') will NOT return a Recordset instance as of 3.5.0. This is a break in backward compatibility.

Fires event recordsetChange

Fires when the value for the configuration attribute recordset is changed. You can listen for the event using the on method if you wish to be notified before the attribute's value has changed, or using the after method if you wish to be notified after the attribute's value has changed.

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade
    An Event Facade object with the following attribute-specific properties added:
    • prevVal Any
      The value of the attribute, prior to it being set.
    • newVal Any
      The value the attribute is to be set to.
    • attrName String
      The name of the attribute being set.
    • subAttrName String
      If setting a property within the attribute's value, the name of the sub-attribute property being set.

recordType

Function

Provided by the datatable-core module.

Defined in datatable/js/core.js:87

Available since 3.5.0

Model subclass to use as the model for the ModelList stored in the data attribute.

If not provided, it will try really hard to figure out what to use. The following attempts will be made to set a default value:

  1. If the data attribute is set with a ModelList instance and its model property is set, that will be used.
  2. If the data attribute is set with a ModelList instance, and its model property is unset, but it is populated, the ATTRS of the `constructor of the first item will be used.
  3. If the data attribute is set with a non-empty array, a Model subclass will be generated using the keys of the first item as its ATTRS (see the _createRecordClass method).
  4. If the columns attribute is set, a Model subclass will be generated using the columns defined with a key. This is least desirable because columns can be duplicated or nested in a way that's not parsable.
  5. If neither data nor columns is set or populated, a change event subscriber will listen for the first to be changed and try all over again.

Default: (see description)

Fires event recordTypeChange

Fires when the value for the configuration attribute recordType is changed. You can listen for the event using the on method if you wish to be notified before the attribute's value has changed, or using the after method if you wish to be notified after the attribute's value has changed.

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade
    An Event Facade object with the following attribute-specific properties added:
    • prevVal Any
      The value of the attribute, prior to it being set.
    • newVal Any
      The value the attribute is to be set to.
    • attrName String
      The name of the attribute being set.
    • subAttrName String
      If setting a property within the attribute's value, the name of the sub-attribute property being set.

render

Boolean | Node

Whether or not to render the widget automatically after init, and optionally, to which parent node.

Fires event renderChange

Fires when the value for the configuration attribute render is changed. You can listen for the event using the on method if you wish to be notified before the attribute's value has changed, or using the after method if you wish to be notified after the attribute's value has changed.

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade
    An Event Facade object with the following attribute-specific properties added:
    • prevVal Any
      The value of the attribute, prior to it being set.
    • newVal Any
      The value the attribute is to be set to.
    • attrName String
      The name of the attribute being set.
    • subAttrName String
      If setting a property within the attribute's value, the name of the sub-attribute property being set.

rendered

Boolean readonly

Flag indicating whether or not this Widget has been through the render lifecycle phase.

Default: false

Fires event renderedChange

Fires when the value for the configuration attribute rendered is changed. You can listen for the event using the on method if you wish to be notified before the attribute's value has changed, or using the after method if you wish to be notified after the attribute's value has changed.

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade
    An Event Facade object with the following attribute-specific properties added:
    • prevVal Any
      The value of the attribute, prior to it being set.
    • newVal Any
      The value the attribute is to be set to.
    • attrName String
      The name of the attribute being set.
    • subAttrName String
      If setting a property within the attribute's value, the name of the sub-attribute property being set.

scrollable

String | Boolean

Provided by the datatable-scroll module.

Defined in datatable/js/scroll.js:54

Available since 3.5.0

Activates or deactivates scrolling in the table. Acceptable values are:

  • false - (default) Scrolling is disabled.
  • true or 'xy' - If height is set, vertical scrolling will be activated, if width is set, horizontal scrolling will be activated.
  • 'x' - Activate horizontal scrolling only. Requires the width attribute is also set.
  • 'y' - Activate vertical scrolling only. Requires the height attribute is also set.

Fires event scrollableChange

Fires when the value for the configuration attribute scrollable is changed. You can listen for the event using the on method if you wish to be notified before the attribute's value has changed, or using the after method if you wish to be notified after the attribute's value has changed.

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade
    An Event Facade object with the following attribute-specific properties added:
    • prevVal Any
      The value of the attribute, prior to it being set.
    • newVal Any
      The value the attribute is to be set to.
    • attrName String
      The name of the attribute being set.
    • subAttrName String
      If setting a property within the attribute's value, the name of the sub-attribute property being set.

showMessages

Boolean

Provided by the datatable-message module.

Defined in datatable/js/message.js:29

Available since 3.5.0

Enables the display of messages in the table. Setting this to false will prevent the message Node from being created and showMessage from doing anything.

Default: true

Fires event showMessagesChange

Fires when the value for the configuration attribute showMessages is changed. You can listen for the event using the on method if you wish to be notified before the attribute's value has changed, or using the after method if you wish to be notified after the attribute's value has changed.

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade
    An Event Facade object with the following attribute-specific properties added:
    • prevVal Any
      The value of the attribute, prior to it being set.
    • newVal Any
      The value the attribute is to be set to.
    • attrName String
      The name of the attribute being set.
    • subAttrName String
      If setting a property within the attribute's value, the name of the sub-attribute property being set.

sortable

String | String[] | Boolean

Provided by the datatable-sort module.

Defined in datatable/js/sort.js:112

Available since 3.5.0

Controls which column headers can trigger sorting by user clicks.

Acceptable values are:

  • "auto" - (default) looks for sortable: true in the column configurations
  • true - all columns are enabled
  • `false - no UI sortable is enabled
  • {String[]} - array of key names to give sortable headers

Default: "auto"

Fires event sortableChange

Fires when the value for the configuration attribute sortable is changed. You can listen for the event using the on method if you wish to be notified before the attribute's value has changed, or using the after method if you wish to be notified after the attribute's value has changed.

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade
    An Event Facade object with the following attribute-specific properties added:
    • prevVal Any
      The value of the attribute, prior to it being set.
    • newVal Any
      The value the attribute is to be set to.
    • attrName String
      The name of the attribute being set.
    • subAttrName String
      If setting a property within the attribute's value, the name of the sub-attribute property being set.

sortBy

String | String[] | Object | Object[]

Provided by the datatable-sort module.

Defined in datatable/js/sort.js:132

Available since 3.5.0

The current sort configuration to maintain in the data.

Accepts column key strings or objects with a single property, the column key, with a value of 1, -1, "asc", or "desc". E.g. { username: 'asc' }. String values are assumed to be ascending.

Example values would be:

  • "username" - sort by the data's username field or the key associated to a column with that name.
  • { username: "desc" } - sort by username in descending order. Alternately, use values "asc", 1 (same as "asc"), or -1 (same as "desc").
  • ["lastName", "firstName"] - ascending sort by lastName, but for records with the same lastName, ascending subsort by firstName. Array can have as many items as you want.
  • [{ lastName: -1 }, "firstName"] - descending sort by lastName, ascending subsort by firstName. Mixed types are ok.

Fires event sortByChange

Fires when the value for the configuration attribute sortBy is changed. You can listen for the event using the on method if you wish to be notified before the attribute's value has changed, or using the after method if you wish to be notified after the attribute's value has changed.

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade
    An Event Facade object with the following attribute-specific properties added:
    • prevVal Any
      The value of the attribute, prior to it being set.
    • newVal Any
      The value the attribute is to be set to.
    • attrName String
      The name of the attribute being set.
    • subAttrName String
      If setting a property within the attribute's value, the name of the sub-attribute property being set.

srcNode

String | Node

The DOM node to parse for configuration values, passed to the Widget's HTML_PARSER definition

Fires event srcNodeChange

Fires when the value for the configuration attribute srcNode is changed. You can listen for the event using the on method if you wish to be notified before the attribute's value has changed, or using the after method if you wish to be notified after the attribute's value has changed.

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade
    An Event Facade object with the following attribute-specific properties added:
    • prevVal Any
      The value of the attribute, prior to it being set.
    • newVal Any
      The value the attribute is to be set to.
    • attrName String
      The name of the attribute being set.
    • subAttrName String
      If setting a property within the attribute's value, the name of the sub-attribute property being set.

strings

Object

Inherited from Widget but overwritten in datatable/js/sort.js:160

Available since 3.5.0

Strings containing language for sorting tooltips.

Default: (strings for current lang configured in the YUI instance config)

Fires event stringsChange

Fires when the value for the configuration attribute strings is changed. You can listen for the event using the on method if you wish to be notified before the attribute's value has changed, or using the after method if you wish to be notified after the attribute's value has changed.

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade
    An Event Facade object with the following attribute-specific properties added:
    • prevVal Any
      The value of the attribute, prior to it being set.
    • newVal Any
      The value the attribute is to be set to.
    • attrName String
      The name of the attribute being set.
    • subAttrName String
      If setting a property within the attribute's value, the name of the sub-attribute property being set.

summary

String

Provided by the datatable-core module.

Defined in datatable/js/core.js:142

Available since 3.5.0

Content for the <table summary="ATTRIBUTE VALUE HERE">. Values assigned to this attribute will be HTML escaped for security.

Default: '' (empty string)

Fires event summaryChange

Fires when the value for the configuration attribute summary is changed. You can listen for the event using the on method if you wish to be notified before the attribute's value has changed, or using the after method if you wish to be notified after the attribute's value has changed.

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade
    An Event Facade object with the following attribute-specific properties added:
    • prevVal Any
      The value of the attribute, prior to it being set.
    • newVal Any
      The value the attribute is to be set to.
    • attrName String
      The name of the attribute being set.
    • subAttrName String
      If setting a property within the attribute's value, the name of the sub-attribute property being set.

tabIndex

Number

Number (between -32767 to 32767) indicating the widget's position in the default tab flow. The value is used to set the "tabIndex" attribute on the widget's bounding box. Negative values allow the widget to receive DOM focus programmatically (by calling the focus method), while being removed from the default tab flow. A value of null removes the "tabIndex" attribute from the widget's bounding box.

Default: null

Fires event tabIndexChange

Fires when the value for the configuration attribute tabIndex is changed. You can listen for the event using the on method if you wish to be notified before the attribute's value has changed, or using the after method if you wish to be notified after the attribute's value has changed.

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade
    An Event Facade object with the following attribute-specific properties added:
    • prevVal Any
      The value of the attribute, prior to it being set.
    • newVal Any
      The value the attribute is to be set to.
    • attrName String
      The name of the attribute being set.
    • subAttrName String
      If setting a property within the attribute's value, the name of the sub-attribute property being set.

view

Function

Inherited from DataTable.Base: datatable/js/base.js:537

Available since 3.6.0

The View class used to render the <table> into the Widget's contentBox. This View can handle the entire table rendering itself or delegate to other Views.

It is not strictly necessary that the class function assigned here be a View subclass. It must however have a render() method.

When the DataTable is rendered, an instance of this View will be created and its render() method called. The View instance will be assigned to the DataTable instance's view property.

Default: Y.DataTable.TableView

Fires event viewChange

Fires when the value for the configuration attribute view is changed. You can listen for the event using the on method if you wish to be notified before the attribute's value has changed, or using the after method if you wish to be notified after the attribute's value has changed.

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade
    An Event Facade object with the following attribute-specific properties added:
    • prevVal Any
      The value of the attribute, prior to it being set.
    • newVal Any
      The value the attribute is to be set to.
    • attrName String
      The name of the attribute being set.
    • subAttrName String
      If setting a property within the attribute's value, the name of the sub-attribute property being set.

viewConfig

Object protected

Inherited from DataTable.Base: datatable/js/base.js:559

Available since 3.6.0

Configuration object passed to the class constructor in view during render.

Default: undefined (initially unset)

Fires event viewConfigChange

Fires when the value for the configuration attribute viewConfig is changed. You can listen for the event using the on method if you wish to be notified before the attribute's value has changed, or using the after method if you wish to be notified after the attribute's value has changed.

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade
    An Event Facade object with the following attribute-specific properties added:
    • prevVal Any
      The value of the attribute, prior to it being set.
    • newVal Any
      The value the attribute is to be set to.
    • attrName String
      The name of the attribute being set.
    • subAttrName String
      If setting a property within the attribute's value, the name of the sub-attribute property being set.

visible

Boolean

Boolean indicating whether or not the Widget is visible.

Default: TRUE

Fires event visibleChange

Fires when the value for the configuration attribute visible is changed. You can listen for the event using the on method if you wish to be notified before the attribute's value has changed, or using the after method if you wish to be notified after the attribute's value has changed.

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade
    An Event Facade object with the following attribute-specific properties added:
    • prevVal Any
      The value of the attribute, prior to it being set.
    • newVal Any
      The value the attribute is to be set to.
    • attrName String
      The name of the attribute being set.
    • subAttrName String
      If setting a property within the attribute's value, the name of the sub-attribute property being set.

width

String | Number

String with units, or number, representing the width of the Widget. If a number is provided, the default unit, defined by the Widgets DEF_UNIT, property is used.

Default: EMPTY_STR

Fires event widthChange

Fires when the value for the configuration attribute width is changed. You can listen for the event using the on method if you wish to be notified before the attribute's value has changed, or using the after method if you wish to be notified after the attribute's value has changed.

Parameters:

  • e EventFacade
    An Event Facade object with the following attribute-specific properties added:
    • prevVal Any
      The value of the attribute, prior to it being set.
    • newVal Any
      The value the attribute is to be set to.
    • attrName String
      The name of the attribute being set.
    • subAttrName String
      If setting a property within the attribute's value, the name of the sub-attribute property being set.

Events

addColumn

Provided by the datatable-mutable module.

Defined in datatable/js/mutable.js:592

Available since 3.5.0

Fired by the addColumn method.

Event Payload:

  • column Object

    The new column definition object

  • index Number | Number[]

    The array index to insert the new column

destroy

Lifecycle event for the destroy phase, fired prior to destruction. Invoking the preventDefault method on the event object provided to subscribers will prevent destruction from proceeding.

Subscribers to the "after" moment of this event, will be notified after destruction is complete (and as a result cannot prevent destruction).

Event Payload:

init

Lifecycle event for the init phase, fired prior to initialization. Invoking the preventDefault() method on the event object provided to subscribers will prevent initialization from occuring.

Subscribers to the "after" momemt of this event, will be notified after initialization of the object is complete (and therefore cannot prevent initialization).

Event Payload:

  • e EventFacade

    Event object, with a cfg property which refers to the configuration object passed to the constructor.

modifyColumn

Provided by the datatable-mutable module.

Defined in datatable/js/mutable.js:611

Available since 3.5.0

Fired by the modifyColumn method.

Event Payload:

moveColumn

Provided by the datatable-mutable module.

Defined in datatable/js/mutable.js:621

Available since 3.5.0

Fired by the moveColumn method.

Event Payload:

removeColumn

Provided by the datatable-mutable module.

Defined in datatable/js/mutable.js:602

Available since 3.5.0

Fired by the removeColumn method.

Event Payload:

sort

Provided by the datatable-sort module.

Defined in datatable/js/sort.js:201

Notifies of an impending sort, either from clicking on a column header, or from a call to the sort or toggleSort method.

The requested sort is available in the sortBy property of the event.

The default behavior of this event sets the table's sortBy attribute.

Event Payload:

widget:contentUpdate

Notification event, which widget implementations can fire, when they change the content of the widget. This event has no default behavior and cannot be prevented, so the "on" or "after" moments are effectively equivalent (with on listeners being invoked before after listeners).

Event Payload:

widget:render

Lifecycle event for the render phase, fired prior to rendering the UI for the widget (prior to invoking the widget's renderer method).

Subscribers to the "on" moment of this event, will be notified before the widget is rendered.

Subscribers to the "after" moment of this event, will be notified after rendering is complete.

Event Payload: