How to output response of type atom/xml feed (from arxiv call) into Jquery DataTable?
I have the datatable working for a simple json from Ajax call to flask server example.
When i try to do it with the xml from an arxiv api response, i cant seem to get it to display in the datatable (though i can just print the raw xml using <pre lang="xml" > or json).
I also tried to convert to json first via python dictionary, but still couldnt get it formatted into datatable as im unsure how to access the properties properly in the Ajax call when theyre deeper than the first level as in the basic example linked.
The HTML in template:
<table id="arxivtable" class="display" style="width:100%"><thead><tr><th>title</th><th>id</th><th>link</th><th>author</th><th>published</th></tr></thead></table>I tried via xml :
$('#arxivtable').DataTable({"ajax": { // "url": "static/objects2.txt", // This works for the static file"url": "/get_arxivpapers", // This now works too thanks to @kthorngren"dataType": "xml","type":"GET","dataSrc": "{{name}}","contentType":"application/atom+xml" },"columns": [ {"data": "title"}, {"data": "link","render": function(data, type, row, meta){ if(type === 'display'){ data = '<a href="'+ data +'">'+ data +'</a>'; } return data; } }, { "data": "id" }, { "data": "link" }, { "data": "author" }, { "data": "journal" }, { "data": "published" }, { "data": "summary" } ] });JSON from AJAX call:
{"feed": {"@xmlns": "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom","link": {"@href": "http://arxiv.org/api/query?search_query%3Dall%3Aeinstein%26id_list%3D%26start%3D0%26max_results%3D2","@rel": "self","@type": "application/atom+xml" },"title": {"@type": "html","#text": "ArXiv Query: search_query=all:einstein&id_list=&start=0&max_results=2" },"id": "http://arxiv.org/api/vehKAQR+bheXtHwJw3qx/OG/XXw","updated": "2022-06-14T00:00:00-04:00","opensearch:totalResults": {"@xmlns:opensearch": "http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/","#text": "36970" },"opensearch:startIndex": {"@xmlns:opensearch": "http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/","#text": "0" },"opensearch:itemsPerPage": {"@xmlns:opensearch": "http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/","#text": "2" },"entry": [ {"id": "http://arxiv.org/abs/1801.05533v2","updated": "2018-11-22T14:04:43Z","published": "2018-01-17T03:05:51Z","title": "Einstein-Weyl structures on almost cosymplectic manifolds","summary": "","author": {"name": "Xiaomin Chen" },"arxiv:comment": {"@xmlns:arxiv": "http://arxiv.org/schemas/atom","#text": "accepted by Periodica Mathematica Hungarica, 14 pages, no figures" },"link": [ {"@href": "http://arxiv.org/abs/1801.05533v2","@rel": "alternate","@type": "text/html" }, {"@title": "pdf","@href": "http://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.05533v2","@rel": "related","@type": "application/pdf" } ],"arxiv:primary_category": {"@xmlns:arxiv": "http://arxiv.org/schemas/atom","@term": "math.DG","@scheme": "http://arxiv.org/schemas/atom" },"category": [ {"@term": "math.DG","@scheme": "http://arxiv.org/schemas/atom" }, {"@term": "53D10, 53D15","@scheme": "http://arxiv.org/schemas/atom" } ] }, {"id": "http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.2137v3","updated": "2008-04-01T04:36:21Z","published": "2008-02-15T04:40:56Z","title": "","summary": ".","author": {"name": "" },"arxiv:comment": {"@xmlns:arxiv": "http://arxiv.org/schemas/atom","#text": "18 pages, added Theorem 5" },"link": [ {"@href": "http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.2137v3","@rel": "alternate","@type": "text/html" }, {"@title": "pdf","@href": "http://arxiv.org/pdf/0802.2137v3","@rel": "related","@type": "application/pdf" } ],"arxiv:primary_category": {"@xmlns:arxiv": "http://arxiv.org/schemas/atom","@term": "math.DG","@scheme": "http://arxiv.org/schemas/atom" },"category": [ {"@term": "math.DG","@scheme": "http://arxiv.org/schemas/atom" }, {"@term": "53C30; 53C25","@scheme": "http://arxiv.org/schemas/atom" } ] } ] }}Or the original atom/xml:
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><link href="http://arxiv.org/api/query?search_query%3Dall%3Aeinstein%26id_list%3D%26start%3D0%26max_results%3D2" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"><title type="html">ArXiv Query: search_query=all:einstein&id_list=&start=0&max_results=2</title><id>http://arxiv.org/api/vehKAQR+bheXtHwJw3qx/OG/XXw</id><updated>2022-06-14T00:00:00-04:00</updated><opensearch:totalresults xmlns:opensearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">36970</opensearch:totalresults><opensearch:startindex xmlns:opensearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">0</opensearch:startindex><opensearch:itemsperpage xmlns:opensearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">2</opensearch:itemsperpage><entry><id>http://arxiv.org/abs/1801.05533v2</id><updated>2018-11-22T14:04:43Z</updated><published>2018-01-17T03:05:51Z</published><title></title><summary> </summary><author><name></name></author><arxiv:comment xmlns:arxiv="http://arxiv.org/schemas/atom">accepted by Periodica Mathematica Hungarica, 14 pages, no figures</arxiv:comment><link href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1801.05533v2" rel="alternate" type="text/html"><link title="pdf" href="http://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.05533v2" rel="related" type="application/pdf"><arxiv:primary_category xmlns:arxiv="http://arxiv.org/schemas/atom" term="math.DG" scheme="http://arxiv.org/schemas/atom"><category term="math.DG" scheme="http://arxiv.org/schemas/atom"><category term="53D10, 53D15" scheme="http://arxiv.org/schemas/atom"></category></category></arxiv:primary_category></entry><entry><id>http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.2137v3</id><updated>2008-04-01T04:36:21Z</updated><published>2008-02-15T04:40:56Z</published><title></title><summary></summary><author><name></name></author><arxiv:comment xmlns:arxiv="http://arxiv.org/schemas/atom"></arxiv:comment><link href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.2137v3" rel="alternate" type="text/html"><link title="pdf" href="http://arxiv.org/pdf/0802.2137v3" rel="related" type="application/pdf"><arxiv:primary_category xmlns:arxiv="http://arxiv.org/schemas/atom" term="math.DG" scheme="http://arxiv.org/schemas/atom"><category term="math.DG" scheme="http://arxiv.org/schemas/atom"><category term="53C30; 53C25" scheme="http://arxiv.org/schemas/atom"></category></category></arxiv:primary_category></entry></feed>The End Point:
@app.route('/get_arxivpapers')def getArxivPapers(name="einstein"): max_results = 2 searchterm = name.replace("_", " ") url = 'http://export.arxiv.org/api/query?search_query=all:'+ searchterm +'&start=0&'+'max_results='+ str(max_results) data = urllib.request.urlopen(url) # data_dict = xmltodict.parse(data) # json_data = json.dumps(data_dict) # print(json_data) # return jsonify(json_data) return data.read().decode('utf-8')
