Correctly Suppressing Warnings in DataTables?

Question

I'm trying to correctly suppress warnings (alerts) in DataTables. The standard behavior of DataTables is to throw a javascript alert when an error occurs; however, this is currently inconvenient for me. I have been trying to convert the warning to a javascript error by

$.fn.dataTableExt.sErrMode = 'throw';

Which works correctly, but this stops the current javascript execution, which is not what I want. So, I wrapped the DataTables operations (init and changes) in a try-catch with no error handling; however, this also halts the javascript execution. (Tested on Chrome and Firefox)

My question is how do I go about getting rid of these errors/alerts for the purposes of debugging? I'm trying to debug other parts of my script, but these alerts keep on getting in the way.

Answer 1

I modified the native alert using this closure function to redirect DataTables warnings to the console.

window.alert = (function() {
    var nativeAlert = window.alert;
    return function(message) {
        window.alert = nativeAlert;
        message.indexOf("DataTables warning") === 0 ?
            console.warn(message) :
            nativeAlert(message);
    }
})();

It restores the window.alert to its native function on first trigger. If you don't want it to restore to the original alert, just comment out the window.alert = nativeAlert; line.