How to Access the ID from Kendo Model in KendoGrid / Custom validator editing? - validation

Question

I'm using a Kendo Grid / Custom validator editing to validate the a Column in the grid,Actually I'm trying the check the email already exists in the database or not ? to implement it I would like to get ID for the Row.
For example given in reference its products table, so in this case I would to get the ProductID inside the validation function ?
Reference:
http://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/grid/editing-custom-validation

Answer 1

You can get the id by retrieving the uid and then getting the data item from the dataSource via dataSource.getByUid(). Each row in the grid has a unique uid generated by the grid.
So for instance, referring to kendo's demo, the validation would now look like this:
productnamevalidation: function (input) {
//get row and uid
var row = input.closest('tr')[0];
var uid = $(row).attr('data-uid');
//get data item and then its ProductID
var dataitem = dataSource.getByUid(uid);
console.log(dataitem);
console.log(dataitem.ProductID);
//continue doing validation
if (input.is("[name='ProductName']") && input.val() != "") {
input.attr("data-productnamevalidation-msg", "Product Name should start with capital letter");
return /^[A-Z]/.test(input.val());
}
return true;
}
Here is their demo with this code included, you can open the console to see that each data row is being printed out with all its model properties.

Answer 2

You can get the record's ID with this:
input[0].kendoBindingTarget.source.ID
For example:
emailUnique: function (input) {
if (input.is("[name=Email]") && input.val() !== "") {
input.attr("data-emailUnique-msg", "Email already exists");
return isEmailUnique(input.val(), input[0].kendoBindingTarget.source.ID);
}
return true;
}
Bonus track, in case it's useful for someone:
function isEmailUnique(val, id) {
var data = YourGridDataSource; // If you don't have it, you may need something like $("#YourGrid").data().kendoGrid.dataSource
for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
if (data[i].ID != id && data[i].Email == val)
return false;
}
return true;
}