BUG - Datasource will not be read when refesh is called before

[Mathias]

hi there, 

When we used your example

http://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/combobox/serverfiltering

and added a single line (the one with refresh)

$(document).ready(function() {
    $("#products").kendoComboBox({
        placeholder: "Select product",
        dataTextField: "ProductName",
        dataValueField: "ProductID",
        filter: "contains",
        autoBind: false,
        minLength: 3,
        dataSource: {
            type: "odata",
            serverFiltering: true,
            transport: {
                read: {
                    url: "http://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/service/Northwind.svc/Products",
                }
            }
        }
    });
  $("#products").data("kendoComboBox").refresh();
});

we had an strange behaviour

if you type in the text field - everything is normal

if you press on the arrow, no items will be shown, over network we saw, that the datasource has not been read.

 

best regards

mathias

 

 

[Mathias]

oops, forgot the version

works with 2014.3

bug is in 2015.1

 

[Georgi Krustev]

Hello Mathias,

Indeed, the widget will not show any items, because the underlying list will use the current state of the source (it is empty because of the autoBind:false). On open, it will not request the data, as the widget is bound, because of the explicit call of the refresh method. This behavior is different from Q3 2014, but I believe that calling refresh method after widget's initialization is not needed. I believe that you need to call dataSource.read method if you would like to populate the widget.

Could you elaborate a bit why would you need to call refresh method instead of datasource's read or fetch?

Regards,
Georgi Krustev
Telerik