How to call the destroy function of angular datatables?

Question

I have a controller and I want to call the destroy function of Jquery Datatables in the controller in a watch method:

      $scope.$watch(\'model.SelectedWai         


        

Answer 1

With dtInstance you have access to the dataTables API :

$scope.dtInstance = {};

add dtInstance as declaration to the table

<table datatable dt-instance="dtInstance" dt-options="dtOptions" dt-columns="dtColumns">

Now you can destroy the dataTable with

$scope.dtInstance.DataTable.destroy();

angular dataTables have a extended ngDestroy() cleaning up bindings made by itself :

$scope.dtInstance.DataTable.ngDestroy();

There is still some style (and a little bit more garbage left) in the headers, so remove them too (here on a table with the id #table) :

$scope.destroy = function() {
    $scope.dtInstance.DataTable.ngDestroy();
    var i, ths = document.querySelectorAll('#table th');
       for (i=0;i<ths.length;i++) {
          ths[i].removeAttribute('style'); 
       }
    }
}

demo -> http://plnkr.co/edit/fQ9YjsbNBNzyYuuvpk6T?p=preview

If you have multiple angular dataTables, use multiple dtInstances and different table id's.