How to add single quotes around query string using jqGrid

Question

I\'m using jqGrid to display some data to users. I want this grid to be sortable, but the data jqGrid sends isn\'t exactly what I need.

Here is the query st

Answer 1

There are serializeGridData event/parameter of jqGrid which can help you solve any problems of customization of the server requests. In your case the serializeGridData could looks as following

serializeGridData: function (postData) {
    var myPostData = $.extend({}, postData); // make a copy of the input parameter
    myPostData.sidx = "'" + myPostData.sidx + "'";
    myPostData.sord = "'" + myPostData.sord + "'";
    return myPostData;
}