What to do with the dataItem?

[John]

Hi All,

I was wondering, what are you supposed to do with a dataItem ?

In the grid documentation, I saw code that looked like this:

var row = this.select(); // assuming this is single select
var dataItem = this.dataItem(row);

However, I'm not sure what I can call on dataItem.  How do I get the values of the selected row?

[Dimiter Madjarov]

Hi John,


The dataItem method is used to get the data, to which a table row is bound to i.e. an object with the properties for the current item. Assuming that the item has properties age and name, you could get them the following way.

E.g.

var grid = $("#grid").data("kendoGrid");
var selection = grid.select(); //single selection
var rowData = grid.dataItem(selection);

var age = rowData.age;
var name = rowData.name;

 

Greetings,
Dimiter Madjarov
the Telerik team