url of ui.datatable, Properties Webix Docs

the URL which the component will use to load data after its initialization

string|function|object url;

Example

webix.ui({
    datatype: "xml",
    url: "data.xml"
    // ...
});

Related samples

Loading from an External Data File
Loading from a Database

Details

Used in conjunction with the datatype parameter. If datatype isn't provided, the component will expect data in JSON format.

The url parameter can be set as:

string - the path to a file or a script

webix.ui({
    view:"datatable", 
    id:"table",
    url:"some.php"
});

function - a function to fetch and parse the data into a widget

{ view:"datatable", id:"table", autoConfig:true, url:function(params){
    return webix.ajax("some/path");
}};

object - the loading proxy object

{ view:"datatable", id:"table", autoConfig:true, url:{
    $proxy:true,
    load:function(view, params){
       return webix.ajax().get("data/some", params);
    }
}};