Bind RowVersion field to popup editor (byte[])

[Ben]

I have a need to allow the user to chose what action to take when a concurrency error occurs, I'm wondering how exactly I'd bind a RowVersion column to the Grid popup editor so it posts the timestamp back to my MVC action method? I was hoping I'd be able to simply designate it as a string in the data source model schema but I'm getting the error "The input is not a valid Base-64 string as it contains a non-base 64 character, more than two padding characters, or an illegal character among the padding characters."

Has anyone else run into this issue? How did you resolve it? I'm guessing that javascript appends a "\0" when it converts the byte array to a string, so I (think) the work-around is to strip off the terminator character and convert the string back to a byte array in the grids...Save event?

[Daniel]

Hello Ben,

It should not be necessary to bind the field in the popup but automatic conversion to string will not work. You should convert the array explicitly.

Regards,
Daniel
the Telerik team

[Jeremy]

I'm having the same issue.  Unfortunately, I don't understand this answer.  Could you provide some more detail?

[Beau]

Similar issue - how do you handle TimeStamp (rowversion) column when inline editing. The model passed to the Controller method is null.

[Daniel]

Hello,

Basically, you should include a property in your ViewModel that keeps the byte array as a Base64 string so that it can be correctly bound on the server:

public byte[] row_version
{
    get;
    set;
}

public string RowVersion
{
    get
    {
        if (this.row_version != null)
        {
            return Convert.ToBase64String(this.row_version);
        }

        return string.Empty;
    }
    set
    {
        if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(value))
        {
            this.row_version = null;
        }
        else
        {
            this.row_version = Convert.FromBase64String(value);
        }
    }
}

Regards,
Daniel
the Telerik team