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vasdev chandrakar
vasdev chandrakar

Reputation: 101

"Cannot read property 'length' of undefined." with ColdFusion and jQuery DataTable

I am working on a ColdFusion page that creates a jQuery DataTable which should fetch JSON data.

For this I have initialized the DataTable in jQuery and given the proper URL for fetching the data, but in spite of this I get the error

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'length' of undefined.

1. allCLient.cfm (returns JSON data)

{
    "COLUMNS": ["CID", "NAME", "EMAIL", "CONTACT", "DOB", "GENDER", "QUALIFICATION", "DESIGNATION", "CITY", "DISTRICT", "MSTATUS", "PHOTO"],
    "DATA": [
        [39, "ramesh", "[email protected]", 9494949491, "October, 07 2017 00:00:00", "Male", "MBA", "Tester", "delhi", "mumbai", "unmarried", null],
        [47, "neeraj", "[email protected]", 9369369369, "June, 22 2017 00:00:00", "Male", "BE", "Tester", "UP", "UP", "married", null],
        [51, "deepak", "[email protected]", 8877556699, "August, 19 2017 00:00:00", "Male", "MCA", "Developer", "bhilai", "bhilai", "unmarried", null],
        [59, "vishwa", "[email protected]", 8787878787, "October, 08 2017 00:00:00", "Male", "BCA", "Engineer", "durg", "mumbai", "unmarried", null],
        [60, "vivek", "[email protected]", 8965896589, "August, 17 2017 00:00:00", "Male", "BE", "Engineer", "jagdalpur", "jagdalpur", "married", null],
        [61, "tapas", "[email protected]", 8082858881, "November, 04 2017 00:00:00", "Male", "MCA", "Tester", "bilaspur", "bilaspur", "unmarried", null],
        [78, "vasu", "[email protected]", 8877887788, "June, 09 2017 00:00:00", "Male", "MCA", "Engineer", "bhilai", "durg", "unmarried", "ColdFusionTutorial.jpg"],
        [84, "devesh", "[email protected]", 9494949494, "February, 09 2017 00:00:00", "Male", "MCA", "Developer", "raipur", "raipur", "unmarried", "ColdFusionTutorial.jpg"],
        [88, "deepesh", "[email protected]", 8978897889, "September, 14 2017 00:00:00", "Male", "BE", "Developer", "bhilai", "durg", "unmarried", "ColdFusionTutorial.jpg"]
    ]
}

2. Javascript (jQuery)

$(document).ready(function() {
     $('#example').DataTable({        
         "ajax": "allClient.cfm",
         "columns": [
            { "data": "name" },
            { "data": "email" },
            { "data": "contact" },
            { "data": "designation" },
            { "data": "city" }            
        ]
    });
});

3. HTML

<table id="example" class="table table-striped table-bordered" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
    <thead>
    <tr>
        <th>Name</th>
        <th>Email</th>
        <th>Contact</th>
        <th>Designation</th>
        <th>City</th>
    </tr>
    </thead>
</table>

4. CFML code

  <cfquery datasource="cfprogrammer" name="getClient" result="cust">
        select * from client </cfquery>

 <cfif cust.recordcount gt 0>   


 <cfset myArr = ArrayNew(1)>

 <cfloop query = "getClient">
    <cfset mystrct = StructNew()>
    <cfset StructInsert(mystrct,'name',getClient.name)>
    <cfset StructInsert(mystrct,'email',getClient.email)>
    <cfset StructInsert(mystrct,'contact',getClient.contact)>
    <cfset StructInsert(mystrct,'designation',getClient.designation)>
    <cfset StructInsert(mystrct,'city',getClient.city)>

     <cfset ArrayAppend(myArr, mystrct)>
 </cfloop>

   <!--- <cfdump var="#myArr#">--->
   <cfset mystrct1 = StructNew()>
    <cfset StructInsert(mystrct1,'data',myArr)>
   <cfset myJSONvar = serializeJSON(mystrct1)>
   <cfoutput>#myJSONvar#</cfoutput>

<cfelse>
      Failed            
</cfif>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 438

Answers (1)

Tomalak
Tomalak

Reputation: 338228

When ColdFusion converts a query object to JSON, the result is structured like this by default:

{
    "COLUMNS": ["COLNAME-1", "COLNAME-2", "COLNAME-N"],
    "DATA": [
        ["row-1-data-1", "row-1-data-2", "row-1-data-N"],
        ["row-2-data-1", "row-2-data-2", "row-2-data-N"],
        ["row-3-data-1", "row-3-data-2", "row-3-data-N"]
    ]
}

but jQuery DataTable expects this format, a simple array of objects:

[
    {
        "COLNAME-1": "row-1-data-1", 
        "COLNAME-2": "row-1-data-2", 
        "COLNAME-N": "row-1-data-N"
    },
    {
        "COLNAME-1": "row-2-data-1", 
        "COLNAME-2": "row-2-data-2", 
        "COLNAME-N": "row-2-data-N"
    },
    {
        "COLNAME-1": "row-3-data-1", 
        "COLNAME-2": "row-3-data-2", 
        "COLNAME-N": "row-3-data-N"
    }
]

ColdFusion can create the second format with a special parameter to the SerializeJSON() function (this parameter has been added in CF 2016, update 2):

<cfset jsonData = SerializeJSON(yourQuery, "struct")>

Now it depends on how your allCLient.cfm looks like. I suspect you simply call SerializeJSON() and output the result. In that case the above is enough.

Don't forget to set <cfcontent type="application/json">.

Also, as pointed out in the comments, you need to be aware that ColdFusion is not case-sensitive and defaults to upper-case column names. Therefore your JSON will have upper-case keys as well. Javascript is case-sensitive which means you must use the upper-case form there.

Upvotes: 3

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