Adding Bubbles Dynamically

[Matt]

I'm able to show bubbles if the datasource contains them at the time the map is created, but I want to be able to add them dynamically.

To add markers dynamically I do map.markers.add(marker);

To add non-bubble shapes dynamically I define my shapes layer like this:

 

{
                type: "shape",
                dataSource: shapes,
                style: { fill: { opacity: 1 }, stroke: { width: 1, color: "#88f" } }
            },

with shapes defined like this:

var shapes = new kendo.data.DataSource({type: "geojson"});

Then when I do shapes.add(shape); it automatically adds it to the map.

According to this thread the only types of fields you can define in a custom datasource are "string", "number", "boolean" and "date".  Unfortunately the bubble layer's location field is looking for a Lat Long, so that makes it so I can't use a kendo datasource object.

Is there a way to make this work?

 

 

 

[T. Tsonev]

Hi,

You can omit the type for the field, data source operations will still work fine.

The type is used to provide default values and conversion methods. Unrecognized values will be dropped.

I hope this helps.

Regards,
T. Tsonev
Telerik

 

 

[Matt]

That worked.  Thank you.