[Solved] how to define new datasource as a field in the the Schema definition

[fbaptiste]

The kendo documentation has the following example for defining a datasource schema:

var dataSource = new kendo.data.DataSource({
  schema: {
    model: {
      id: "ProductID",
      fields: {
        ProductID: {
          //this field will not be editable (default value is true)
          editable: false,
          // a defaultValue will not be assigned (default value is false)
          nullable: true
        },
        ProductName: {
          //set validation rules
          validation: { required: true }
        },
        UnitPrice: {
          //data type of the field {Number|String|Boolean|Date} default is String
          type: "number",
          // used when new model is created
          defaultValue: 42,
          validation: { required: true, min: 1 }
        }
      }
    }
  }
});

this schema definition works for basic fields such as string, number etc but what if i wanted to have another field which is an inner datasource? for example:

var dataSource = new kendo.data.DataSource({

  schema: {

    model: {

      id: "ProductID",

      fields: {

        AttributesDataSource: new kendo.data.DataSource({

              // datasource config here
           })

      }

    }

  }

});

tried this. no error is given, but the inner datasource is always empty. is that the correct way to achieve this? is there an online example for such scenerio?

[Kiril Nikolov]

Hi Fred,

Well this behavior is expected, as the Kendo UI DataSource does not support another DataSource being nested inside. And there is no workaround that I can provide you with in order to achieve this.

Regards,
Kiril Nikolov
Telerik