Collection Data Source

You may use Laravel's Collection as data source for your dataTables. You can look at Yajra\Datatables\Enginges\CollectionEngine class which handles the conversion of your Collection into a readbale DataTable API response.

Collection via Factory

use Datatables;
 
Route::get('user-data', function() {
    $collection = collect([
        ['id' => 1, 'name' => 'John'],
        ['id' => 2, 'name' => 'Jane'],
        ['id' => 3, 'name' => 'James'],
    ]);
 
    return Datatables::of($collection)->make(true);
});

Collection via Facade

use Datatables;
 
Route::get('user-data', function() {
    $collection = collect([
        ['id' => 1, 'name' => 'John'],
        ['id' => 2, 'name' => 'Jane'],
        ['id' => 3, 'name' => 'James'],
    ]);
 
    return Datatables::queryBuilder($collection)->make(true);
});

Collection via Dependency Injection

use Yajra\Datatables\Datatables;
 
Route::get('user-data', function(Datatables $datatables) {
    $collection = collect([
        ['id' => 1, 'name' => 'John'],
        ['id' => 2, 'name' => 'Jane'],
        ['id' => 3, 'name' => 'James'],
    ]);
 
    return $datatables->queryBuilder($collection)->make(true);
});

Collection via IoC

 
Route::get('user-data', function() {
    $collection = collect([
        ['id' => 1, 'name' => 'John'],
        ['id' => 2, 'name' => 'Jane'],
        ['id' => 3, 'name' => 'James'],
    ]);
 
    return app('datatables')->queryBuilder($collection)->make(true);
});

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