how to make the url: a function?

[John]

I need to alter the url for my service based upon user input so am using a function something like this :-

url: function() {

     return '/myservice/search/' + $("#txtSearch").val();

},

this does not seem to work .. the url gets mangled.

however if I use the same idea for the data: to pass extra parameters it works fine

How can I make the url a function so I can change the value?

[Atanas Korchev]

Hi,

 The url setting is passed without any modification to jQuery.ajax which in turn performs the ajax request. It seems that the latter does not support functions though. The only solution I can suggest is to use the data setting to provide query string arguments to the url.

Regards,
Atanas Korchev
the Telerik team

[Joel]

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[John]

I have found a solution that works for me.  I needed to be able to change the URL for a datasource so this works :-

$("#txtSearch").keydown(function(e) {

    if (e.keyCode === kendo.keys.ENTER) {

        // update url

        searchDataSource.options.transport.read.url ="/myservice/search/" + $("#txtSearch").val();

        searchDataSource.read();

    }

});