From afffc06a64c1161c6c826a780c1578617941c232 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Harper, Glenn (CMG-Videa)" <Glenn.Harper@Videa.tv>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 13:57:48 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Fix: server-side columns().search() call passes empty string
 to _fnFilterComplete

Server-side issue, difficult to set up test page using publicly
available sAjaxSource that handles DataTables-specific parameters
---
 js/api/api.search.js | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/js/api/api.search.js b/js/api/api.search.js
index 4a874edfd..408aff24d 100644
--- a/js/api/api.search.js
+++ b/js/api/api.search.js
@@ -50,7 +50,12 @@ _api_registerPlural(
 				"bCaseInsensitive": caseInsen === null ? true : caseInsen
 			} );
 
-			_fnFilterComplete( settings, settings.oPreviousSearch, 1 );
+            _fnFilterComplete( settings, $.extend( {}, settings.oPreviousSearch, {
+                "sSearch": input+"",
+                "bRegex":  regex === null ? false : regex,
+                "bSmart":  smart === null ? true  : smart,
+                "bCaseInsensitive": caseInsen === null ? true : caseInsen
+            } ), 1 );
 		} );
 	}
 );