Uncaught Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression in Yadcf select type - datatables

Question

I am having a problem with select type in Yadcf. It does not allow brackets.
I have this code
{
column_number: 9,
filter_type: 'select',
select_type: "select2",
column_data_type: "html",
html_data_type: "text",
filter_match_mode: "exact",
filter_default_label: "Select status",
},
HTML:
<td>Identified (In progress)</td>
So when page is loaded I have the error
Uncaught Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: Identified (In progress)
If I remove brackets select filter works fine and if I write
column_data_type: "text",
The error is gone but I can't filter by this value.

Answer 1

You should set the column_data_type to html only when the content of your <td> elements contains html code, for example <td><span>Identified (In progress)</span></td> and then yadcf will extract the Identified (In progress) from your span.
In you example the content of the <td> is a plain text, so you should declare the column_data_type at all because the default value of column_data_type is text , b.t.w the default of the [html_data_type is text]2 , so you shouldn't set its value too.
So just remove the
column_data_type: "html",
html_data_type: "text",
and it should work as expected
Here is a working jsfiddle (using latest beta version)
yadcf.init(oTable, [{
column_number: 0,
select_type: "select2",
select_type_options: {
width: '200px'
},
filter_match_mode: "exact"
}]);
p.s I'm the author of yadcf plugin

Answer 2

Seems like a bug in yadcf.
Try to use filter_match_mode: "contains" and column_data_type: "text", as shown below:
{
column_number: 9,
filter_type: 'select',
select_type: "select2",
column_data_type: "text",
filter_match_mode: "contains",
filter_default_label: "Select status"
},
See this JSFiddle for demonstration.