Kendo UI - DataSource works when using fetch(), but not read()

[Niall]

I have a Kendo UI DataSource that works when I use fetch(), but when I use the exact same configurtation with read() it fails. This is a problem as I need to retrieve data more than once and I can't do that with fetch().

Here is the DataSource code - 

var FieldsDataSource = new kendo.data.DataSource({
transport: {
read: {
url: "../WebServiceAddress",
dataType: "json",
type: "POST",
contentType: 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
cache: false
},
parameterMap: function() {
return "{some mapping that has been confirmed to work}";
},
schema: {
data: function (data) {
if (data && data.d) {
//execution gets to here and stops
return data.d;
}
else {
return [];
}
},
}

});

Here is the code that calls the DataSource.read() function - function loadFields() {

FieldsDataSource.read(function() {
var data = this.data();
if (data.length > 0) {

for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
var dataitem = data[i].Key;
$("#" + dataitem + "_field").prop("checked", data[i].Value);
}
}
});
}

If I change "FieldsDataSource.read(function()" to "FieldsDataSource.fetch(function()" everything works, but that doesn't make sense as I was under the impressionthat read and fetch do the same thing the difference being fetch only gets data once.

What I do know is that the data is being returned from the server, I can see it in fiddler - but the execution stops in the schema section where I flagged it in my code sample.

Apologies if I am asking a really obvious question, but I'm very new to Kendo.

[Rosen]

Hello marko,

As you may know unlike fetch, the read method does not accept a callback as an argument. Thus, you will need to use the change event to iterate over the data.

Regards,
Rosen
Telerik