Unterminated string error due to foreign key string containing single quote

[David]

I'm attempting to use a foreign key column and I sometimes get an unterminated string error while loading the page.  I determined that this is due to having a single quote in the data (not uncommon for users to do that).

This is easy to duplicate using the MVC Example project by simply changing an Employee name in the Northwind database to contain a single quote.  The Grid Foreign Key demo will show the error.  (BTW, Firefox doesn't really indicate the error, it just stops.  IE blows up.)

Encoding the string doesn't help.  The resulting data simply shows the ' value in the output.

Anyone else have a similar problem?

[Vladimir Iliev]

Hi David,


Thank you for bringing this issue to our attention. I have informed our dev team about it and it is now fixed. At the end of the week there will be service pack which will also include this fix.


As a small sign of our appreciation I have updated your Telerik points.


Kind Regards,
Vladimir Iliev
the Telerik team

[Mathieu]

I have the same problem and I'm using the Kendo.Mvc wrapper version 2012.2.710. Reproducing the problem is quite simple, below the Model.Shops is an IEnumerable of SelectListItem:

.ForeignKey(x => x.ShopId, Model.Shops, "Value", "Text");

When an item has single quotes in the Text field I get an unexpected token illegal error in Chrome. Is there any temporary fix I can use?

Thanks!