autocomplete + ajax: How to stop client side filtering

[Kent]

I have a web api for address loopup. User can type some keywords and system will search both Location Description and Address.

I managed to write the following code to make it work, well, basically.

So, whenever user types anything, application will go to server to get back results properly.
However, since I need to specify dataTextField as LocationDescription, autocomplete will always filter out results if keyword is in Address field.

Default value of filter is startsWith, I've changed it to "contains" in my code.

My question is, is there any way I can just disable client side filtering based on dataTextField?

TIA

===============
<input id="pulocation" />

<script id="template" type="text/x-kendo-tmpl">
     <b>${ data.LocationDescription }</b><br/>
     ${ data.Address } 
</script>

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function () {
        var myDs = new kendo.data.DataSource({
            transport: {
                read: function (options) {
                    $.ajax({
                        url: "/api/AddressLookup",
                        data: {
                            criteria: function () {
                                return $("#pulocation").val();
                            }
                        },
                        success: function (result) {
                            options.success(result);
                        },
                        dataType: "json",
                        beforeSend: function (xhr) {
   // set auth info
                        }
                    });
                }
            }
        });

        $("#pulocation").kendoAutoComplete({
            minLength: 1,
            dataTextField: "LocationDescription",
            template: kendo.template($("#template").html()),
            filter: "contains", // <--
            dataSource: myDs
        });

        $("#pulocation").data("kendoAutoComplete").list.width(400);

        $("#pulocation").keydown(function (e) {
                myDs.read();    
        });
    });
</script>

[Kent]

I just found another user asked the same question. 
http://www.kendoui.com/forums/ui/autocomplete/filtering-on-more-than-one-data-field.aspx

He switched to jquery UI autocomplete though.

I actually tried jquery UI autocomplete first, but I want to use kendo web UI for consistency (we are paid customer). 

Is there any solution or workaround?

Thanks~

[Kent]

Currently I'm 'overriding' kendo.data.DataSource.filter method, but I think it's like hack lol...

[Georgi Krustev]

Hello Kent,

 
I will suggest you enable serverFiltering option. Thus widget will show the data as it is returned from the server.

Regards,
Georgi Krustev
the Telerik team

[Kent]

Thanks Georgi, that works!