zhiwei2017 / sspdatatables

Django package for server side processing table using DataTables package

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I'm an software engineer/solution architect, enjoy a lot to work with python, C++. 🔭 I’m currently working in Allianz SE as a Senior Data Scientist. At the same time, I'm doing my partial time master programm in computer science at TUM.

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sspdatatables's Issues

Splitting enum.py into another package

In utils/enum.py the normal Enum class is extended, it should be in a separate package.

Renaming functions

Some functions should be renamed, such that the user know what does it do from its name instead of diving into the source code.

Enhancement in class definition

The class DataTables is defined in a normal way and at least the __new__ function should be removed to its meta class.

New features needed

Use case:

When use "Select" as the type of filtering, the range filter is needed.

For example:

there is an attribute called price, the data of it in the db is "2000, 8000, ...." , I hope I can search with the range like

• 0-1000,
• 1001-5000,
• 5001-10000.....

Table content loading efficiency

Situation

Currently I'm working with Flask and SQLAlchemy, there is one thing I noticed that the ModelSerializer from django rest framework slows down the loading speed of the table content. However using the normal serializer performs much faster than the ModelSerialize.

Proposed solution

So the next step would be removing the ModelSerializer and using the normal Serializer instead. However, it may change the usage of this package. So it would be better to put this feature together with other new feature in a complete new version (backwards incompatible). Additionally, the documentation of the usage should also be updated.

Documentation in Readthedocs

The documentation should be enhanced with advanced usages for more complicated use cases.
And the README should be converted to rest file.

Customize filters' position

Current: User can put the filters in the footer.

Wanted: User has three choice:

• filters in footer
• filters in header
• filters in a centralized div container outside of the table

footer filter function enhancement

Right now the filter functions for all footers work separately and inefficient.
Need a javascript filter function for querying the table with the inputs from all footers