Stand-alone DataSource initialize with local data

[Nikita]

There is a way to declare a stand-alone data source in Kendo and initialize it with an array. https://docs.telerik.com/kendo-ui/framework/datasource/basic-usage#creating-local-data-sources

Is there an equivalent MVC helper for this?

 

[Aleksandar]

Hello Nikita,

You can initialize a stand-alone DataSource instance:

@(Html.Kendo().DataSource<OrderViewModel>()
        .Name("myDataSource")
        .Ajax(d=>d.Read(r => r.Action("ReadOrders", "Home")))
    )

Setting the Name() configuration allows you to access the DataSource instance on the client. You can find more details here.

When using the Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC server-side wrappers creating a dataSource from local data is not supported. Creating widgets using the Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC server-side wrappers allows you to render the HTML and JavaScript that are needed to initialize a Kendo UI widgets and whose options propagate to the client-side. Note that this happens on the server, thus local, client-side data is not available. If you need to create a dataSource instance from local data you will need to handle this on the client and use Kendo UI for jQuery. In this scenario define the dataSource as demonstrated in the article you cited above. 

The DataSource HtmlHelper supports several built-in types of data binding and you can read more on them here:

https://docs.telerik.com/aspnet-mvc/html-helpers/datasource/types

Regards,
Aleksandar
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[Nikita]

Thank you! That answers it.