Allow specification of context variable used in datatable_options dictionary about django-datatable-view HOT 3 CLOSED

Here is an example of how I accomplish a change in the context variable used today:

    def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
        context = super(CustomersListView, self).get_context_data(**kwargs)
        context['customers_datatable'] = context.pop('datatable', None)
        return context

It's just a lot of boilerplate code that pops up a lot.

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This is a failure on my end about the documentation coverage. DatatableView brings with it some of the standard generic view paradigms, although the names are a bit different. I went through and made some additions on the README that should clarify some of these behaviors.

Here is the bit I just committed about the context name:

datatable_context_name and get_datatable_context_name()

Default: "datatable"

Specifies the variable name to be used in the template context for the datatable structure object. As with the built-in Django generic views, the method overrides the attribute.

Thanks for reporting the issue!

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Fabulous! Works like a charm. You managed to patch the code without me having to re-download anything -- amazing.

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