Using ajax in a callback where the parent process itself relies on an ajax call
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I'm working with an application that uses DataTables to generate a HTML table which is populated by data from an ajax request. This is fairly simple: var substancesTable = $('#substancesTable').DataTable({ "processing": true, "serverSide": true, "searching": false, "ajax": { "url": "/get-substances.json", "method": "POST", "cache": false, "dataSrc": function (json) { // Update non-Datatables UI elements and perform other functions based on the ajax response $('#numSubstances').html(json.recordsTotal); drawOptionsButton(json.isFiltering); // Must return data for DataTables to