filter function should apply on formated data

[narayanchoudhary]

I have use a formatter on a column but while filtering the data. The filter function filter the actual data not the data displayed by the formatter function.

[AllenFang]

@narayanchoudhary default is filter on raw data.

Why don't filter on formatted data?

Because a lots of use case that formatted content is a complex HTML DOM or something, it's meaningless to filter on it.

How can i filter on formatted data?

You can use column.filterValue > https://react-bootstrap-table.github.io/react-bootstrap-table2/docs/column-props.html#columnfiltervalue-function

I will consider to add a flag to easier to filter data on formatted data. Thanks

[pritam-patil]

I was facing a similar issue of filtering on formatted data. The filterValue column prop needed to return formatted string that my formatter prop returned. So basically my formatter and filterValue had the same argruments. Something like -

const columns = [{
...
    {
        dataField: 'Language',
        text: 'Language',
        filter: textFilter(),
        filterValue: languageFormatter,
        formatter: languageFormatter,
    },
...
}];

@AllenFang - My question was, instead of adding such flag, can the filter prop - identify formatter prop is passed and use the function reference passed internally (and not reading filterValue).
This will help -- get rid passing the same function to filterValue and the filterValue prop itself?
Thanks.