defaultOrder being ignored by DataTables

[doublehops]

I have the following in the model's search method:

$dataProvider = new ActiveDataProvider([
    'query' => $query,
    'sort' => ['defaultOrder' => ['id' => 'DESC']],
]);

This works fine with GridView::widget but seems to be ignored by DataTables. Is this a known problem? I'm having trouble finding the cause.

[archimodecl]

In view index.php... add in clientOptions
"order"=>[[column,"type"]]
example:

$dataProvider, 'filterModel' => $searchModel, 'clientOptions' => [ // "lengthMenu"=> [[20,-1], [20,Yii::t('app',"All")]], "info"=>true, "responsive"=>true, "order"=> [[ 2, "desc" ]]