Accessing parent attributes in MVVM

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  1. Grant
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    Posted 22 Mar 2018 Link to this post

    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

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    Konstantin Dikov
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    Posted 26 Mar 2018 Link to this post

    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


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    Konstantin Dikov
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  5. Grant
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    Posted 26 Mar 2018 in reply to Konstantin Dikov Link to this post

    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

  7. David
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    Posted 10 May 2018 Link to this post

    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. 

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