Accessing kendoDropDownList object for PUT

[Brent]

I am currently using WebAPI and KendoUI (drop down in this example). When I need to the object to the API I grab the object out of the data source. To get the selected item I use:

var ​dataItem= $("#dropDown").data("kendoDropDownList").dataItem();

Then to make the object valid I have to remove kendo's ID like so:

delete dataItem.$id

After this I can JSON.stringify the object to pass to the API via ajax:

$.ajax({
    type: "PUT",
    url: BASE + "Api/MyController",
    data: JSON.stringify(dataItem),
    contentType: "application/json",
    success: function () {
        alert("Success");
    },
    error: function (result) {
        alert("failed");
    }
});​

 

Is this bad practice? Is there a better way of getting the object from the data source instead of deleting kendoui's $id every time?

[Kiril Nikolov]

Hello Brent,

The dataItem() method will always return the full data item including the ID. There is no method that will return the dataItem without the ID field unfortunately. 

Regards,
Kiril Nikolov
Telerik