What replaced haschanges()

[carlg]

In the old MVC extensions, I tested if a grid had changes by using the following

grid.haschanges();


According to the transition guide here:
http://docs.kendoui.com/getting-started/using-kendo-with/aspnet-mvc/migration/widgets/grid


haschanges has been removed. 

So now with Kendo, how do I tell if the grid has changes?

[Iliana Dyankova]

Hi Carl,

Yes, you are right - haschanges() method is not available in Kendo UI Grid. In order to achieve the needed functionality you could use the 'dirty' property of the DataSource's model. Generally speaking all DataSource items have dirty flag which indicates whether the item has been modified by the user or not.  

Regards,
Iliana Nikolova
the Telerik team

[carlg]

What about a delete since there is no record in the model for a deleted record?

[Iliana Dyankova]

Hi Carl,

The destroyed items are stored in the  _destroyed property of the DataSource. Please note that this property is intended for internal usage only, however it can be used to check if there are deleted items or not. For example :

grid.dataSource._destroyed.length

Kind regards,

Iliana Nikolova
the Telerik team

[Muthu]

can you send me the example of using dirty property for the grid. i have to check in requeststart event. thanks

[Sampath]

function doesDataSourceHaveChanges(ds)
{
    var dirty = false;

    $.each(ds._data, function ()
    {
        if (this.dirty == true)
        {
            dirty = true;
        }
    });

    if (ds._destroyed.length > 0)
    {
       dirty = true;
    }

    return dirty;
}

[carlg]

I actually wrote that function and posted it on another website.

lol.

[Muthu]

it works. i copied from other website that carlg posted. Thanks to all

[Jerry]

I tried looking for the "this.dirty" flag on the dataSource._data objects but there is no dirty property.  Are there any dependencies in how the DataSource definition was created that would prevent this flag from appearing on these objects?

[Muthu]

Try to follow this way
var grid = $('#Grid').data('kendoGrid');
if(doesDataSourceHaveChanges(grid.dataSource))
{
//
}

[Nani]

HI,

I am using Kendo version 2013. I am also unable to find the dirty flag in the . I tried to check as Muthu suggested. but no luck. Does () support 2013 version?

I have a kendo grid. I want to set a flag if there are any changes in the cell level. Please help me out!!

Thanks

[Stefan]

Hello Nani,

The Kendo UI Grid currently supports a hasChanges method, which can be used to check if there are any changes:

http://docs.telerik.com/kendo-ui/api/javascript/data/datasource#methods-hasChanges

Also, please check how to set the dirty flag of a data item:

http://www.telerik.com/forums/manually-set-grid-row-as-dirty

Additionally, please have in mind that the posted approach here is custom and it is not officially supported.

Still, if an assistance is needed, with the implementation, please provide a fully runnable example and I will gladly assist.

Regards,
Stefan
Telerik by Progress

[Neeraj]

I have used hasChanges() to detect dirty flag in dataSource. But it behaves in strange way when we have 1 row inside Grid and if i we delete that still hasChanges() return false. 

[Neeraj]

I have created demo https://dojo.telerik.com/alOHiyOV  
      What is official solution

[Viktor Tachev]

Hello Neeraj,

I have examined the example and noticed that an object with the same signature as the dataItem was passed to the remove method. However, it was not reference to a dataItem in the DataSource and thus, the data is not altered. Check out this example as reference.

In order to remove the dataItem you need to get reference of it and then pass that to the remove method. Like in the example below.

• https://dojo.telerik.com/uwipaVAg/2

Regards,
Viktor Tachev
Progress Telerik