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API Reference
  1. Introduction
  2. Init API call
    3. Objects
    1. Cell Data Object
    2. Conditional Format Object
    3. Data Source Object
    4. Format Object
    5. Global Object
    6. Options Object
    7. Report Object
    8. Slice Object
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    Events

Data Source Object

A dataSource object contains the information about the data source of the report.

Properties

NameTypeDescription
filenameStringoptional The URL to JSON or CSV file. Also can be the URL to the server-side script generating the data.
fieldSeparatorStringoptional Specific field delimiter for CSV data. By default, WebDataRocks can parse comma-separated values or semicolon-separated values. For all other cases, fieldSeparator should be specified.
dataStringoptional Property to specify JSON data. WebDataRocks supports a certain kind of JSON data – array of objects, where each object is an unordered collection of KEY/VALUE pairs.

Example

Connect to a CSV file in WebDataRocks reporting tool:

var pivot = new WebDataRocks({
	container: "#wdr-component",
	toolbar: true,
	height: 395,
	report: {
		dataSource: {
			filename: "https://cdn.webdatarocks.com/data/data.csv"
		}
	}
});

Try it out on CodePen.