While putting together my first app, I am loading a grid via javascript, populating the grid with Json data only after a number of other inputs are gathered from the user. While doing this, I omitted the .Read method on the datasource. I was noticing http 400 errors everytime this page loaded. Initially thought I was having issues with the Forgerytoken, but after trial-and-error, comparing to another sample page, I decided to stub in a .Read method and handler in the controller, and the http 400 errors stopped. So I suppose my question is this - is a .Read method required, even if it will never be used?
See attached files, that show both screenshots of network traffic from the chrome debugger console. Notice the last request in the stack in each case.
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Hi Randal,
In general, the Kendo UI Grid is configured to auto bind. What this actually does is that when it gets initialized, it would call the read() method of the data source. The data source would send an AJAX request based on the content that was set within the Read option. If you would like to disable this behavior, I can recommend setting the AutoBind option of the grid to false:
.AutoBind(false)
Since the logic for retrieving the data is not set on the server-side, you should disable the server operations of the data source. This is due to the fact when a user sorts or filters the grid, a request would be sent to get the sorted or filtered data:
.ServerOperation(false)
I hope you find this helpful.
Regards,
Tsvetomir
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