From 5f82b240bc468ecee50029aacb2778596fe7f642 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Allan Jardine <allan.jardine@sprymedia.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 09:12:23 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] New: If a data source is found to be a function, then the
 function is executed and the return used for the cell display (+sorting,
 filtering etc). This is useful for integration with knockout.js and
 backbone.js etc.

---
 media/js/jquery.dataTables.js | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/media/js/jquery.dataTables.js b/media/js/jquery.dataTables.js
index a295cafa..6b81db6e 100644
--- a/media/js/jquery.dataTables.js
+++ b/media/js/jquery.dataTables.js
@@ -6681,6 +6681,11 @@
 			{
 				sData = oCol.sDefaultContent;
 			}
+			else if ( typeof sData == 'function' )
+			{
+				/* If the data source is a function, then we run it and use the return */
+				return sData();
+			}
 
 			if ( sSpecific == 'display' && sData === null )
 			{