How to map grid to result with extra Json objects

[Luis]

Hello I have a kendo grid in MVC which currently works fine. I am making an Ajax request to read the information on the grid and everything works fine. However, I want to send another object into the same json coming from my action result that populates the grid as follows:

public JsonResult ReadElements([DataSourceRequest]DataSourceRequest request)
{
    // this is my data that i want to populate in the grid
    var result = GetMyGridElements().ToDataSourceResult(request);

    //returning the following line allows my grid to be populated correctly
    //return Json(result, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);

   var otherInfo = GetOtherInfo();
   //i want to return something like the following:
   return Json(new {result, otherInfo}, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
}

However, this results in a grid error. I have tried to bind to the following events to see what I could accomplish:

.Events(e => e.DataBinding("MyGrid.DataBinding"))

and

.Events(e => e.RequestEnd("MyGrid.RequestEnd"))

which use the following defined functions:

MyGrid.DataBinding = function (e) {
    debugger;
}

MyGrid.RequestEnd = function(e) {
    debugger;
}

I see that the only difference on the request end function is the way the e.response object behaves. On the non-working example the e.response object has a result and a otherInfo properties, whereas in the working example the content of the e.response object match the contents of the e.response.result object. So I tried doing this:

MyGrid.RequestEnd = function(e) {
    e.response = e.response.result;
}

However, on the databinding event, the e.items object is empty on the non-working scenario and contains all elements in the working scenario and my grid does not display any element

Basically my question is: 

is there a way that these two events connect with each other? how can I programatically select which information will be bound to the grid when multiple information is present on the response of the ajax request?

 

[Boyan Dimitrov]

Hello Luis,

There is a possibility to return a new custom object after the linq expressions are applied against the IQueryable. Please refer to the following overload method of  ToDataSourceResult:

  

return Json(entities.ToDataSourceResult(request, ModelState, product => new ProductViewModel
       {
           ProductID = product.ProductID,
           ProductName = product.ProductName,
           UnitsInStock = product.UnitsInStock
       }));

It allows to create a custom field to each object of the data returned by the server.


Regards,
Boyan Dimitrov
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