Binding dropdownlist datasource does not work

[Jaap]

I have this HTML:
<select data-role="dropdownlist", data-bind="value: xxx", data-text-field="field1", data-value-field="field2", data-source='{"transport":{"read":"my-url"}}' />
Then I bind this template.
But the data-source is not used.

Found an issue in the function kendo.initWidget.
Inside that function there is the code:

if (dataSource) {
     options["dataSource"] = window[dataSource];
}

dataSource does here indeed have the transport object I defined in the attributes. But window[dataSource] is undefined.
Seems to me that this line of code must be:

if (dataSource) {
     options["dataSource"] = dataSource;
}

When I change it this way, the dropdownlist works!
So not sure if this is a bug or that I am doing something wrong.

Regards, Jaap

[Atanas Korchev]

Hello,

 Thanks for bringing this up. Indeed the dataSource cannot be currently set like this. You can set it to the name of a data source variable:

var myDataSource = new kendo.data.DataSource();

<select data-role="dropdownlist", data-bind="value: xxx", data-text-field="field1", data-value-field="field2", data-source='myDataSource' /> 

Yet we can easily support both scenarios. We will implement this for the official release.

Regards,
Atanas Korchev
the Telerik team

[Jaap]

I can confirm this is working now in the release version.
Thanks, Jaap