Combobox does not respect 'autoBind: false' option when control value is set

[Curt]

I have a combobox bound to a viewmodel and configured to use a remote datasource for the list of choices as follows:

input.kendoComboBox({

    dataTextField: 'label',

    dataValueField: 'id',

    autoBind: false,

    dataSource: {

        type: "json",

        serverFiltering: true,

        transport: {

            read: {

                url: 'api/getchoices,

                data: {

                    filter: function(){

                             return input.val();

                    }

                }

            }

        }

    }

});

<input data-role="combobox" data-bind="value: id, comboboxText:idText"/>

As seen above, the the combobox is configured as "autoBind: false".  This value is respected for those comboboxes on the page which have no value (in the viewmodel) but for those comboboxes that do have a value, the combobox will immediately query the remote server when the page loads.  This is undesirable from a performance perspective, and also unnecessary since both the dataTextField and dataValueField are being set from the viewmodel.

Is it a bug that autoBind: false is not being respected?  How can I suppress this unnecessary call to the remote datasource?

[Georgi Krustev]

Hello Curt,

 
The ComboBox/DropDownList will initiate binding if the value() method is used. The MVVM value binding on the other hand uses the value method of the widget to set its value. Hence after the widget is initialized and the binding is avoid because of the autoBind setting, the value binding will trigger dataSource binding anyway. Use a custom value binding in order to avoid this default behavior.

Kind regards,
Georgi Krustev
the Telerik team