Add collection to DataSource as JSON

[Anthony]

I've been racking my brain for several days trying to figure out a way to add an entire JSON collection to a DataStore without iterating through the JSON collection and calling .add for all the items.

Is there a way to do this?

[Alexander Valchev]

Hi Anthony,

The add method accepts an object (single model) as a parameter, the data method on the other hand operates with arrays. To pass an entire JSON collection to the dataSource you can try the following:

var sampleData = [{"foo": 10, "bar": 10}, {"foo": 11, "bar": 11}]

dataSource.data(sampleData);

Please have in mind that this approach replaces the whole data set with a new one, e.g. does not add/insert new records.

Greetings,
Alexander Valchev
the Telerik team