Declarative Bindings Uniform Implementation/Documentation

[Jeff]

We need uniform implementation and dedicated documentation similar to "Configuration" that describes how to declaratively bind controls.  I'm having to do a lot of repetitive coding for binding that should be a simple declarative structure.  You should be able to enable a property on your kendo framework and request it to declaratively data bind and off you go.  Very little coding necessary.  For example:

<input id="siteList" class="ctrlDropDown" data-template="#siteListTemplate" data-dataurl="Layout/sites.json" data-selector="sites" /> 

    $(".ctrlDropDown")
    .each(function (index, htmlControl) {
        var control = $(htmlControl);
        var dataSourceUrl = control.attr("data-dataurl");
        //alert(dataSourceUrl);
        var dataSourceCallback = control.attr("data-datacallback");
        var template = control.attr("data-template");
        var dataType = control.attr("data-type");
        var dataText = control.attr("data-text");
        var dataValue = control.attr("data-value");
        var dataSelector = control.attr("data-selector");
        //alert(dataSelector);
        var dataSource = new kendo.data.DataSource({
            type: (dataType != null) ? dataType : null,
            transport: {
                read: {
                    url: dataSourceUrl,
                    jsonpCallback: (dataSourceCallback != null) ? dataSourceCallback : ""
                }
            }
        });
        dataSource.fetch(function (data) {
            //alert(JSON.stringify(data.sender._pristine));
            control.kendoDropDownList({
                autoBind: true,
                dataTextField: dataText,
                dataValueField: (dataValue != null) ? dataValue : dataText,
                template: (template != null) ? kendo.template($(template).html()) : null,
                dataSource: (dataSelector != null) ? eval("data.sender._pristine." + dataSelector) : data.sender._pristine
            });
        });
    });

[Atanas Korchev]

Hello Jeff,

 We have documented the declarative initialization in the "Fundamentals" help topic. You could also check this blog post: http://www.kendoui.com/blogs/teamblog/posts/12-03-20/mvvm_declarative_initialization_and_html5_data_attributes.aspx 

Regards,
Atanas Korchev
the Telerik team