Polymorphism in Grid

[Thomas]

Hi,
is there a way to use a Kendo Grid with polymorphic items and Popup editing?

I'd like to define a base class BaseViewModel with some common properties and subclasses FirstViewModel and SecondViewModel with more specific properties. The Grid is bound to BaseViewModel, but in the Popup Editor I'd like to edit the subclasses. The controller produces an IEnumerable containing FirstViewModels and SecondViewModels.

I have defined EditorTemplates for FirstViewModel and SecondViewModel but the Model which is passed to when editing is always of type BaseViewModel.
Any suggestions?

Kind regards,
Thomas

[Vladimir Iliev]

HI Thomas,

Basically the required behavior is not supported out of the box and it will require custom code as the PopUp editor template is generated on the server side from the same type as the Grid (the PopUp editor always receives as model empty object of the same type as the Grid). 

Regards,
Vladimir Iliev
Telerik

[Thomas]

Hi Vladimir,
ok, thanks for the answer.

Regards,
Thomas

[Morten]

Any chance this has changed? If not do you have an example or some hints on how to do this?

[Vladimir Iliev]

Hi Morten,

This behavior is still not supported out of the box. 

Regards,
Vladimir Iliev
Telerik