SearchBox Client Template - DataItem not defined

[Mike]

Hello,

I'm using a client template in a search box. The box is bound to a web service and the template looks like this:

<div class="searchResult">
      <div style="font-weight:bold;">#= Text #</div>
      <div style="font-size:.8em; font-style:italic;">#= DataItem.notes #</div>
</div>

Things are working just fine in Chrome and IE but, in Firefox, I'm getting an error in firebug that the DataItem is not defined:

Sys.InvalidOperationException: Sys.InvalidOperationException: Error rendering template: DataItem is not defined. There's no reason why the web service would return the dataitem for Chrome and IE but not firefox... right?

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Mike

[Mike]

As a follow up here... It looks like the problem is that the POST request to the web service from Firefox is going as XML, whereas from the others it goes as JSON. As a result, the result is XML, which breaks the template.

I think I reported an issue like this a while ago - what's going on? How come this is still happening with Firefox?

Mike

[Dimitar Terziev]

Hi Mike,

As discussed in the support ticket for this same problem, if the json formater is specified in the Global.asax file, the web service should return the data in JSON format which is the format supported by our controls.

Regards,
Dimitar Terziev
Telerik

[Mike]

Hi Dimitar,

Thanks for your response and explanation. I didn't really want to remove the XML formatter in the global.asax file, and since this procedure is designed for use with the search box, I just handled it manually. If it helps anybody else, here's the basic code I used to get it working with WebAPI:

Public Class SearchBoxContextDTO
    Property context As SearchBoxContext
End Class

<HttpPost()>
Public Function SearchUsersBoxRequest(<FromBody()> postedContext As SearchBoxContextDTO) As HttpResponseMessage 'SearchBoxItemData()
    Dim output As New List(Of SearchBoxItemData)
    Dim resultItem As SearchBoxItemData
    Dim resultData As Dictionary(Of String, Object)
    Dim rsp As HttpResponseMessage = Request.CreateResponse
    Dim serializer As New JavaScriptSerializer

'(search logic removed - fills output with results)

    If output.Count > 0 Then
        rsp.Content = New StringContent(serializer.Serialize(output.ToArray))
    Else
        rsp.Content = New StringContent("")
    End If

    With rsp
        .StatusCode = Net.HttpStatusCode.OK
        .Content.Headers.ContentType = New MediaTypeHeaderValue("application/json")
    End With

    Return rsp
End Function

Hope all's well,

Mike