Accept json format for filters on server side

[vladan strigo]

Hi everyone

 

I'm using Kendo/Angular 2 grid with custom filters, paging and sorting and ASP.NET Core on the server side.

When sending POST request from client side, I have to format request parameters to "form data" because server side bindings uses that format by default in order to retrieve data for the grid.

Is there a way to configure server side code to accept json format instead of form data?

I have found an open source library which might do that: https://github.com/kendo-labs/dlinq-helpers but I'm wondering is there an option to do all this with standard Kendo.Mvc.UI library?

 

Thanks

Vladan

[Konstantin Dikov]

Hi Vladan,

The ToDataSourceResult method in available in the Kendo.Mvc.Extensions namespace:

using Kendo.Mvc.Extensions;

More information could be found at the following link:

• http://docs.telerik.com/aspnet-mvc/helpers/grid/binding/ajax-binding

Best Regards,
Konstantin Dikov
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[vladan strigo]

Hi Konstantin,

ToDataSourceResult works fine and there is no problem with that.

I'm interested in binding JSON model to DataSourceRequest model on server side instead of sending it as form-data. Is that possible?

 

Thanks

Vladan

[Konstantin Dikov]

Hi Vladan,

You can stringify your JSON before sending the data to the controller and deserialize in the controller:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7895105/deserialize-json-with-c-sharp

You can also take a look at the following article:

• http://www.mitechdev.com/2016/08/crud-operations-in-kendo-grid-using-angularjs.html

Regards,
Konstantin Dikov
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