Accessing parent attributes in MVVM

[Grant]

Hi, 

In short I want to know how to access the value of a parent's sibling attribute in the MVVM observable object. I do have a solution but I would like to know if the best option for me to use.

http://dojo.telerik.com/AZEZixAs

Thanks,
Grant

[Konstantin Dikov]

Hi Grant,

Using the ViewModel is the correct way of accessing an object in this scenario. Note that you could get reference to the object directly:

viewModel.person.name

Best Regards,
Konstantin Dikov
Progress Telerik

[Grant]

Morning Konstantin, 

Thanks for the confirmation, although I'd rather avoid using a direct reference so as to no loose any dependency links.

See
https://www.telerik.com/forums/viewmodel-attr-vs-viewmodel-get('attr')
https://docs.telerik.com/kendo-ui/framework/mvvm/observableobject#dependent-methods

Thanks so much,
Grant

[David]

You could also traverse up the tree as well. 

http://dojo.telerik.com/AZEZixAs/3

 

Or can you tell me why this would be a bad idea? then you wouldn't have to reference the viewmodel by name directly. As you know where you are in the object it's just a case of going up the levels to come back down.