GridCommand is always empty with CustomBinding

[Chris]

There must be something simple that I am doing wrong. I am trying to get a simple paging scenario working with CustomBinding before I try anything too complicated. Here is my view:

                <%

                   Html.Telerik().Grid<AuditSummary>()

                       .Name("AuditGrid")

                       .BindTo(Model.AuditSummaryQuery)

                       .Columns(columns =>

                                    {

                                        columns.Bound(a => a.Id);

                                        columns.Bound(a => a.UserNameFirstLast).Title("User");

                                        columns.Bound(a => a.Action);

                                        columns.Bound(a => a.Event);

                                        columns.Bound(a => a.IPAddress);

                                        columns.Bound(a => a.DateTime);

                                    })

                       .Pageable(settings => settings.Total(Model.RecordCount))

                       .EnableCustomBinding(true)

                       .Sortable()

                       .Render();

                %>

And here is my Controller:

        [Authorize, GridAction(EnableCustomBinding = true)]

        public ActionResult Index(GridCommand command)

        {

            if (!CurrentUser.IsAdmin())

                return viewAccessDenied();

            var allAuditSummaryQuery = repository.GetAllAuditSummaryQuery();

            var filteredAuditSummaryQuery = filterData(allAuditSummaryQuery, command);

            return View(new AuditIndexViewModel

            {

                AuditSummaryQuery = filteredAuditSummaryQuery,

                RecordCount = allAuditSummaryQuery.Count()

            });

        }

        private static IQueryable<AuditSummary> filterData(IQueryable<AuditSummary> data, GridCommand command)

        {

            if (command.PageSize > 0)

            {

                data = data.Skip((command.Page - 1) * command.PageSize);

            }

            data = data.Take(command.PageSize);

            return data;

        }

For some reason, when I look at the "command" parameter in the debugger, all of its properties are null or zero. How do I get those querystring parameters such as AuditGrid-page=6 to go into that object properly?

[Atanas Korchev]

Hi Christopher,

Thank you for reporting this problem. I have fixed it and I am sending you the hotfix build. Apart from upgrading there is one additional thing you need to do. Check this code:

[GridAction(EnableCustomBinding = true, GridName="MyGrid")]
public ActionResult Index(GridCommand command)
{
       if (command.PageSize == 0)
       {
             command.PageSize = 10;
             command.Page = 1;
       }
}

On initial load the grid command will be empty (PageSize =0 and Page = 0). The highlighted code will check that and initialize the command properly.
You also need to specify the name of the grid in the GridAction attribute via the GridName property. This is required in order to extract the proper query string parameter e.g. "MyGrid-page". The alternative is to call PrefixUrlParameters(false) so the grid no longer adds its name before the query string parameters.

All the best,
Atanas Korchev
the Telerik team

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[Chris]

Fixed! =]