response-object.md

Object Response

To convert the response of DataTables to an object, use toJson api.

use DataTables;

Route::get('user-data', function() {
	$model = App\User::query();

	return DataTables::eloquent($model)
				->addColumn('intro', 'Hi {{$name}}!')
				->toJson();
});

Example Response

{
	"draw": 2,
	"recordsTotal": 10,
	"recordsFiltered": 3,
	"data": [{
		"id": 476,
		"name": "Esmeralda Kulas",
		"email": "[email protected]",
		"created_at": "2016-07-31 23:26:14",
		"updated_at": "2016-07-31 23:26:14",
		"deleted_at": null,
		"superior_id": 0
	}, {
		"id": 6,
		"name": "Zachery Muller",
		"email": "[email protected]",
		"created_at": "2016-07-31 23:25:43",
		"updated_at": "2016-07-31 23:25:43",
		"deleted_at": null,
		"superior_id": 1
	}]
}