Topics

• The client and server interaction model
  • High-level description
  • The table configuration object
  • Update the configuration from GET parameters
  • Generating the queryset filter
  • Sorting the table by column
• Searching
  • Parsing the search string
  • Deriving the Q() filter
  • Compound columns with different data types
• Sorting
  • Pure database columns
  • Mixed database and virtual sources
  • Pure virtual columns
  • Columns without sources
• Third-party model fields
  • Registering fields with custom columns
  • Skipping column registration
• Caching
  • Caching Strategies
    • cache_types.DEFAULT
    • cache_types.SIMPLE
    • cache_types.PK_LIST
    • cache_types.NONE
  • Settings
    • DATATABLEVIEW_CACHE_BACKEND
    • DATATABLEVIEW_CACHE_PREFIX
    • DATATABLEVIEW_DEFAULT_CACHE_TYPE
    • DATATABLEVIEW_CACHE_KEY_HASH
    • DATATABLEVIEW_CACHE_KEY_HASH_LENGTH