Bind to Normalized data

[Dominik]

how do you bind Data Source to normalized data?  I know I can take the fields and data2 arrays and construct something that looks like data1 but that will be time consuming.

 

// Denormalized
var data1 = [{"name":"John", "age":20},{"name":"Tom", "age":25}];

// Normalized
var fields = ["name","age"];
var data2 = [["John",20],["Tom",25]];

[Alexander Popov]

Hi Dominik,

I am afraid this scenario is not supported, so constructing an array of objects similar to "data1" is the only available option.

Regards,
Alexander Popov
Telerik

 

 

[Dominik]

Thank you for your post. I finally figured that out but I left it open because someone might have this question in the future.

 However if you could answer this question it would be really helpful:

http://www.telerik.com/forums/data-source---schema---parse-function-error-when-creating-new-function

This question is related to this one. 

 

// My starting Normalized data
var fields = ["name","age"];
var data2 = [["John",20],["Tom",25]];


// What I want the result to look like Denormalized
var data1 = [{"name":"John", "age":20},{"name":"Tom", "age":25}];


// Solution 1 O(N^2) --- this is slow

var fields = ["name","age"];
var data2 = [["John",20],["Tom",25]];
var data1 = [];
for(var i = 0; i < data2.length; i++){
   var temp = {};
   for(var y = 0; y < fields.length; y++){
      temp[fields[y]] = data2[i][y];
   }
   data1.push(temp);
}


// solution 2 O(N)

var fields = ["name","age"];
var data2 = [["John",20],["Tom",25]];
var body = "";

for(var i = 0; i < fields.length; i++){
   body += "this."+fields[i] +"=args["+i+"]; ";
}

var model = new Function("args",body);

var data1 = [];
for(var i = 0; i < data2.length; i++){
   var x = new model(data2[i]);
   data1.push(x);
}

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[Alexander Popov]

Thanks for the follow up Dominik. I see that my colleague Vasil has already addressed the queries in the forum thread you mentioned.

Regards,
Alexander Popov
Telerik