BTW, in my opinion, the defaultajax parameter can be removed as it is optional for Datatables.
And the$attributes ofajax() should not be optional, if user wants to setup ajax parameter, he must provide ajax attributes.
Insignificant things, don't matter.

@yajra What do you think?

Sorry for late reply, the header method override looks good. Does this mean that we still be using the same route for dataTables and it will not be redirected to store on resource controller? Will try to test this asap. Thanks!

Yes, no need to change dataTables routes. Just passtrue toajax() method, "URL is too long" will gone.

Laravel determines request method viarequest()->method() actuallySymfonyRequest::getMethod() which handlesX-HTTP-Method-Override header well, e.g.route matching,VerifyCsrfToken.

@ElfSundae this seems to work but needs some modification. IMO, we should not change theajax function and instead promote thepostAjax() to a public method. This is how I tested it:

/**     * Set ajax method to POST, X-HTTP-Method-Override header to GET.     *     * @param  string|array  $attributes     * @return array     */publicfunctionpostAjax($attributes ='')    {if (!is_array($attributes)) {$attributes = ['url' => (string)$attributes];        }        unset($attributes['method']);        Arr::set($attributes,'type','POST');        Arr::set($attributes,'headers.X-HTTP-Method-Override','GET');$this->ajax =$attributes;return$this;    }

UsersDataTable:

publicfunctionhtml()    {return$this->builder()                    ->columns([...])                    ->postAjax()                    ->parameters([...]);    }

Loved the trick you pulled on method override ❤️

That is what I did in the previous PR#45 , a newpostAjax method.
What I was thinking in this PR is users can simply fix "URL is too long" by just add atrue to their existingajax() or using POST method together withminifiedAjax().

A newpostAjax seems more reasonable, I will commit it later.

So we now have three standalone ways to configure Ajax params:

• ajax : accepts any dataTables Ajax params
• minifiedAjax : Setup Ajax with minified URL and GET method, accepts customurl ordata
• postAjax : Setup Ajax to send via POST (handle it from GET yet), accepts any dataTables Ajax params

Done in#45