Kendo UI (MVC) Grid AJAX binding form data not sent - kendo-ui

Does anybody know what the "Data" part of the Grid Ajax Read fluent API does.
The reason I ask is because my set up is like this:
// razor setup
.Kendo()
.Grid<MyModel>()
.Name("KENDO_UI_GRID")
.DataSource(d =>
d.Ajax()
.Read(r => r
.Data("k_get_datafromform")
.Action("ResultsJson", "ControllerName")
)
.Events(e => e.RequestEnd("k_grid_requestend"))
.Events(e => e.Error("k_grid_error"))
.PageSize(Model.MaxItemsPerPage))
.Columns(// etc etc
// javascript function
function k_get_datafromform() {
var theFormFound = jQuery(".search-form:first");
if (theFormFound) {
// custom helper to convert form to object
return theFormFound.serializeObject();
};
return null;
}
But when the grid POSTs to get the results, it doesn't send the data along with it. The form collection contains the usual Kendo stuff (pagesize etc) but nothing else. What am I doing wrong???

From Telerik:
"This is a known issue in the first service pack release(2013.3.1316) that is already fixed. The additional data for the read request was not included in the serialized request data and was not sent to the server. Please update the version that you are using to the latest service pack(2013.3.1324) which is available for download from your account. I am sorry for the inconvenience caused."
And that's that.

You are using the Data function to send addtional parameters to the server, when the dataSource is performing the operation - in your case the Read operation.
So if you return from the function something like {foo :42}. This parameter equal to 42 will be send to the server.
In your case I assume that the result from the serializeObject is not right.
Can you try to see how you object looks like and share it with us?
You can use
alert(kendo.stringify(theFormFound.serializeObject()));
or
console.log(kendo.stringify(theFormFound.serializeObject())
to investigate

For example, here is a DropdownList (left stuff out to be more clear) that requires additionalData, you'll notice the javascript function "OnAdditionalData" in the .data tag
#(Html.Kendo().DropDownListFor(x => x.FromOpportunity)
.Name("OpportunityDDL")
.DataSource(source => {
source.Read(read =>
{
read.Action("SomeMethod", "SomeController")
.Data("OnAdditionalData");
})
)
and The JS
function OnAdditionalData() {
var Item = 3
return {
partyItem: Item
};
}
So when the data is read it says ok, go to SomeMethod in SomeController and read the Data, but says wait! i need data, what am I bringing to the party. It looks at the JS function and says ok I have a partyItem with a value of 3.
public JsonResult SomeMethod(int partyItem)
{
// partyItem will == 3
}
Notice "partyItem" in the controller is the same name as "partyItem" in the function, they must be the same. Be aware that if you expected a string in the Controller it wouldn't work. if it was var Item = "3" then it would work.

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How to route ASP.Net Core api return value to appropriate observable based on data type returned

I have created an ASP.NET Core Web Api backend with an Angular 7 frontend. One of the methods in the Api can return either an object or an array to an Angular service. How do I route to specific observable, based on the data type returned? I am a noob to Angular, so any kind assistance would be appreciated.
Angular service call to Api:
getLinksFromSitus(situs: any) {
this.http.post(this.baseUrl + 'getLinksFromSitus', situs).subscribe(data =>
this.apiData.next(data)
);
}
Portion of Web Api that returns array if more than one APN present:
// if more than one item in list, get status information for each and return list to user to select appropriate apn
if (propApn.Count > 1)
{
return Ok(propApn);
}
Portion of same method to return object if only one value for APN:
var resultsModel = new Results
{
ArcGisLink = arcGisLink,
HistInfoLink = histInfoLink,
PropInfoLink = propInfoLink
};
return Ok(resultsModel);
You can't do this. Typescript can only type things based on static analysis at build time, what your describing would require Typescript to know the result of your API call at build time, which it doesn't do.
The best you can do is indicating that your API call can return both of your them:
public myApiFunc(req: MyRequestModel): Observable<any>
But that will still require you to figure out which type returned at runtime.
I was able to find a solution that worked...
getLinksFromSitus(situs: any) {
this.http.post(this.baseUrl + 'getLinksFromSitus', situs).subscribe(data => {
if (data.hasOwnProperty('arcGisLink')) {
this.apiData.next(data);
} else {
let vals = [];
vals = this.apiPropApn.getValue();
const item = vals.concat(data);
this.apiPropApn.next(item);
}
});
}
So, after subscribing to the HttpResponse, I am able to check if the data in the response contains a known property. If it doesn't contain the known property, then it concatenates the data to a BehaviorSubject array. It works perfectly.

Passing parameters from Command to Converter

I defined a new type of model element as a plug-in; let's refer to it as Foo. A Foo node in the model should translate to a section element in the view. So far, so good. I managed to do that by defining simple conversion rules. I also managed to define a new FooCommand that transforms (renames) selected blocks to Foo.
I got stuck trying to have attributes on those Foo model nodes be translated to attributes on the view elements (and vice-versa). Suppose Foos have an attribute named fooClass which should map to the view element's class attribute.
<Foo fooClass="green-foo"> should map to/from <section class="green-foo">
I can successfully receive parameters in FooCommand, but I can't seem to set them on the blocks being processed by the command:
execute(options = {}) {
const document = this.editor.document;
const fooClass = options.fooClass;
document.enqueueChanges(() => {
const batch = options.batch || document.batch();
const blocks = (options.selection || document.selection).getSelectedBlocks();
for (const block of blocks) {
if (!block.is('foo')) {
batch.rename(block, 'foo');
batch.setAttribute(block, 'fooClass', fooClass);
}
}
});
}
Below is the code for the init function in the Foo plugin, including the model→view and view→model conversions:
init() {
const editor = this.editor;
const doc = editor.document;
const data = editor.data;
const editing = editor.editing;
editor.commands.add('foo', new FooCommand(editor));
doc.schema.registerItem('foo', '$block');
buildModelConverter().for(data.modelToView, editing.modelToView)
.fromElement('foo')
.toElement(modelElement => {
const fooClass = modelElement.item.getAttribute('fooClass'));
return new ContainerElement('section', {'class': fooClass});
});
buildViewConverter().for(data.viewToModel)
.fromElement('section')
.toElement(viewElement => {
let classes = Array.from(viewElement.getClassNames());
let modelElement = new ModelElement('foo', {'fooClass': classes[0]});
return modelElement;
});
}
When I try to run the command via
editor.execute('foo', { fooClass: 'green-foo' })
I can see that the green-foo value is available to FooCommand, but the modelElement in the model→view conversion, on the other hand, has no fooClass attribute.
I'm sure I'm missing the point here and misusing the APIs. I'd be really thankful if someone could shed some light on this issue. I can provide more details, as needed.
Follow-up after initial suggestions
Thanks to #Reinmar and #jodator for their suggestion regarding configuring the document schema to allow for the custom attribute. I really thought that would have taken care of it, but no. It may have been a necessary step anyway, but I'm still unable to get the attribute value from the model element during the model→view conversion.
First, let me add an important piece of information I had left out: the CKEditor5's version I'm working with is 1.0.0-alpha2. I am aware several of the APIs are bound to change, but I would still like to get things working with the present version.
Model→view conversion
If I understand it correctly, one can either pass a string or a function to the toElement call. A question about using the latter: what exactly are the parameters passed to the function? I assumed it would be the model element (node?) to be converted. Is that the case? If so, why is the attribute set on that node via batch.setAttribute (inside a document.enqueueChanges) not available when requested? Should it be?
A sequencing problem?
Additional testing seems to indicate there's some kind of order-of-execution issue happening. I've observed that, even though the attribute is not available when I first try to read it from the modelElement parameter, it will be so if I read it again later. Let me try to illustrate the situation below. First, I'll modify the conversion code to make it use some dummy value in case the attribute value is not available when read:
buildModelConverter().for(data.modelToView, editing.modelToView)
.fromElement('foo')
.toElement(modelElement => {
let fooClass = modelElement.item.getAttribute('fooClass') || 'naught';
let viewElement = new ContainerElement('section');
viewElement.setAttribute('class', fooClass);
return viewElement;
});
Now I reload the page and execute the following instructions on the console:
c = Array.from(editor.document.getRoot().getChildren());
c[1].is('paragraph'); // true
// Changing the node from 'paragraph' to 'foo' and adding an attribute
// 'fooClass' with value 'green-foo' to it.
editor.document.enqueueChanges(() => {
const batch = editor.document.batch();
batch.rename(c[1], 'foo');
batch.setAttribute(c[1], 'fooClass', 'green-foo');
return batch;
});
c[1].is('paragraph'); // false
c[1].is('foo'); // true
c[1].hasAttribute('fooClass'); // true
c[1].getAttribute('fooClass'); // 'green-foo'
Even though it looks like the expected output is being produced, a glance at the generated view element shows the problem:
<section class="naught"/>
Lastly, even if I try to reset the fooClass attribute on the model element, the change is not reflected on the view element. Why is that? Shouldn't changes made via enqueueChanges cause the view to update?
Sorry for the very long post, but I'm trying to convey as many details as I can. Here's hoping someone will spot my mistake or misunderstanding of how the CKEditor 5's API actually works.
View not updating?
I turned to Document's events and experimented with the changesDone event. It successfully addresses the "timing" issue, as it consistently triggers only after all changes have been processed. Still, the problem of the view not updating in response to a change in the model remains. To make it clear, the model does change, but the view does not reflect that. Here is the call:
editor.document.enqueueChanges(() => editor.document.batch().setAttribute(c[1], 'fooClass', 'red-foo'));
To be 100% sure I wrote the whole feature myself. I use the 1.0.0-beta.1 API which is completely different than what you had.
Basically – it works. It isn't 100% correct yet, but I'll get to that.
How to convert an element+attribute pair?
The thing when implementing a feature which needs to convert element + attribute is that it requires handling the element and attribute conversion separately as they are treated separately by CKEditor 5.
Therefore, in the code below you'll find that I used elementToElement():
editor.conversion.elementToElement( {
model: 'foo',
view: 'section'
} );
So a converter between model's <foo> element and view's <section> element. This is a two-way converter so it handles upcasting (view -> model) and downcasting (model -> view) conversion.
NOTE: It doesn't handle the attribute.
Theoretically, as the view property you could write a callback which would read the model element's attribute and create view element with this attribute set too. But that wouldn't work because such a configuration would only make sense in case of downcasting (model -> view). How could we use that callback to downcast a view structure?
NOTE: You can write converters for downcast and upcast pipelines separately (by using editor.conversion.for()), in which case you could really use callbacks. But it doesn't really make sense in this case.
The attribute may change independently!
The other problem is that let's say you wrote an element converter which sets the attribute at the same time. Tada, you load <section class=ohmy> and gets <foo class=ohmy> in your model.
But then... what if the attribute will change in the model?
In the downcast pipeline CKEditor 5 treats element changes separately from attribute changes. It fires them as separate events. So, when your FooCommand is executed on a heading it calls writer.rename() and we get the following events in DowncastDispatcher:
remove with <heading>
insert:section
But then the attribute is changed too (writer.setAttribute()), so we also get:
setAttibute:class:section
The elementToElement() conversion helper listens to insert:section event. So it's blind to setAttribute:class:selection.
Therefore, when you change the value of the attribute, you need the attributeToAttribute() conversion.
Sequencing
I didn't want to reply to your question before we released 1.0.0-beta.1 because 1.0.0-beta.1 brought the Differ.
Before 1.0.0-beta.1 all changes were converted immediately when they were applied. So, rename() would cause immediate remove and insert:section events. At this point, the element that you got in the latter one wouldn't have the class attribute set yet.
Thanks to the Differ we're able to start the conversion once all the changes are applied (after change() block is executed). This means that the insert:section event is fired once the model <foo> element has the class attribute set already. That's why you could write a callback-based converters... bur you shouldn't :D
The code
import { downcastAttributeToAttribute } from '#ckeditor/ckeditor5-engine/src/conversion/downcast-converters';
import { upcastAttributeToAttribute } from '#ckeditor/ckeditor5-engine/src/conversion/upcast-converters';
class FooCommand extends Command {
execute( options = {} ) {
const model = this.editor.model;
const fooClass = options.class;
model.change( writer => {
const blocks = model.document.selection.getSelectedBlocks();
for ( const block of blocks ) {
if ( !block.is( 'foo' ) ) {
writer.rename( block, 'foo' );
writer.setAttribute( 'class', fooClass, block );
}
}
} );
}
}
class FooPlugin extends Plugin {
init() {
const editor = this.editor;
editor.commands.add( 'foo', new FooCommand( editor ) );
editor.model.schema.register( 'foo', {
allowAttributes: 'class',
inheritAllFrom: '$block'
} );
editor.conversion.elementToElement( {
model: 'foo',
view: 'section'
} );
editor.conversion.for( 'upcast' ).add(
upcastAttributeToAttribute( {
model: 'class',
view: 'class'
} )
);
editor.conversion.for( 'downcast' ).add(
downcastAttributeToAttribute( {
model: 'class',
view: 'class'
} )
);
// This should work but it does not due to https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor5-engine/issues/1379 :(((
// EDIT: The above issue is fixed and will be released in 1.0.0-beta.2.
// editor.conversion.attributeToAttribute( {
// model: {
// name: 'foo',
// key: 'class'
// },
// view: {
// name: 'section',
// key: 'class'
// }
// } );
}
}
This code works quite well, except the fact that it converts the class attribute on any possible element that has it. That's because I had to use very generic downcastAttributeToAttribute() and upcastAttributeToAttribute() converters because of a bug that I found (EDIT: it's fixed and will be available in 1.0.0-beta.2). The commented out piece of code is how you it should be defined if everything worked fine and it will work in 1.0.0-beta.2.
It's sad that we missed such a simple case, but that's mainly due to the fact that all our features... are much more complicated than this.

Repeating Dataset from API response in Wix Code

How can I repeat the display of response from API in Wix?
I have the following code in my backend module that queries the API for data like so:
export function getTopCoins() {
const url = 'https://api.coinmarketcap.com/v1/ticker/?limit=10';
return fetch(url, {method: 'get'})
.then(response => response.json());
}
and then in the frontend, I want to render it in the browser like so:
export function page1_viewportEnter(event, $w) {
getTopCoins().then(response => {
response.forEach(($w, itemData, index) => {
$w('#coinList').text = itemData.name;
});
});
}
So basically I have a Paragraph element with the ID of name coinList. So as you can see I want to display a list of names of the top 10 coins from coin market cap. How can I achieve this?
A working version of this was one that displayed the name of the first item on the list, this is the code:
export function page1_viewportEnter(event, $w) {
getTopCoins().then(response => {
$w('#coinList').text = "Name: " + response[0].name + "\n";
});
}
You can use the (pretty new) feature of Wix called Repeaters. Its in a Beta phase at the moment. You may find it under Add Panel --> Lists & Grids...
Then, in Wix Code IDE, you may write something like that (assuming you connected all the proper data binding with the connect panel configuration between you dataset and the repeater component:
export function page1_viewportEnter(event, $w) {
getTopCoins().then(response => {
$w('#repeater1').data = response;
});
}
You may refer to the Repeater API here.
One more thing, if I'm allowed to suggest: if you don't have any backend logic when calling getTopCoins from your backend code, you may use Wix Fetch API in you frontend code directly and save a network hop (faster and better performance)
Enjoy!

Using only a controller in FW1 without a view

I have an Ajax request that sends some data to a page and expects back a truthy or falsey value depending on if the data was saved. In my controller I do everything and set the content to a true or false value. I really don't want to create a view just to output 1 variable, so I was wondering if there was a way that I don't have to use a view and only use the controller to output simple strings.
I believe you cannot disable views completely, but there's a pretty simple workaround: you can create one view and use it for many actions.
Let's say we've created the view views/main/ajax.cfm, what could be inside it? Obviously, simplest way is:
<cfoutput>#HTMLEditFormat(rc.response)#</cfoutput>
Personally I like returning JSON, it allows me to have status field, plus data, if needed. This way my view looks like this:
<cfheader name="Content-Type" value="application/json" />
<cfoutput>#SerializeJSON(rc.response)#</cfoutput>
Any way, now in our action we need to do something like this:
// prevent displaying the layout
request.layout = false;
// force special view
variables.fw.setView("main.ajax");
// init response (according to the choice made earlier)
rc.response["status"] = "OK";
rc.response = "";
There's one more gotcha for this. Sometimes you don't want AJAX page to be accessed directly (like opened in browser), or vise-versa -- want to do some debugging when it is.
There's a cool helper isAjax in CFWheels framework, it is easy to port to the FW/1. It could be as simple as adding method like this to controller:
/*
* Check if request is performed via AJAX
*/
private boolean function isAjax() {
return (cgi.HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH EQ "XMLHTTPRequest");
}
Actually, that setup code above is also helper method in my apps:
/*
* Set up for AJAX response
*/
private struct function setAjax() {
// prevent displaying the layout
request.layout = false;
// force special view
variables.fw.setView("main.ajax");
local.response["status"] = "OK";
return local.response;
}
So in my action code whole check looks like this, which is pretty compact and convenient:
if (isAjax()) {
rc.response = setAjax();
}
else {
return showNotFound();
}
Hope this helps.
You can't output directly from a Controller: its job is just to call the Model and pass data to the View, so you'll need a view template to do the outputting.
However, you can avoid having to create a separate view for each controller method by using the framework's setView() method. This allows you to override the convention and apply a single view to multiple controller methods. So you could set up a generic "ajax view" and then use it to output the data from any of your controllers:
views/main/ajax.cfm
<!---Prevent any layouts from being applied--->
<cfset request.layout=false>
<!--- Minimise white space by resetting the output buffer and only returning the following cfoutput --->
<cfcontent type="text/html; charset=utf-8" reset="yes"><cfoutput>#rc.result#</cfoutput>
controller.cfc
function init( fw )
{
variables.fw=arguments.fw;
return this;
}
function getAjaxResponse( rc )
{
rc.result=1;
fw.setView( "main.ajax" );
}
function getAnotherAjaxResponse( rc )
{
rc.result=0;
fw.setView( "main.ajax" );
}
You can use onMissingView in you Application.cfc to handle the response for ajax calls, this way you don't need to perform any extra logic in your controller methods.
// Application.cfc
function onMissingView(rc) {
if(structKeyExists(rc, "ajaxdata") && isAjaxRequest()) {
request.layout = false;
content type="application/json";
return serializeJSON(rc.ajaxdata);
}
else {
return view("main/notfound");
}
}
function isAjaxRequest() {
var headers = getHttpRequestData().headers;
return structKeyExists(headers, "X-Requested-With")
&& (headers["X-Requested-With"] eq "XMLHttpRequest");
}
// controller cfc
function dosomething(rc) {
rc.ajaxdata = getSomeService().doSomething();
}
This checks if the request context has an ajaxdata key, and is a genuine ajax request, then returns the serialize data. If it doesn't then it renders the main.notfound view

ASP.NET MVC 3 Unobtrusive Jquery Validate not showing custom error messages more than once

So, I took some code from this Microsoft provided Example which allows me to use the jquery validate unobtrusive library to parse validation error message returned from my server and display them in the UI. They have a video demonstrating this. So, here is the piece of Javascript code I'm using:
$.validator.addMethod("failure", function () { return false; });
$.validator.unobtrusive.adapters.addBool("failure");
$.validator.unobtrusive.revalidate = function (form, validationResult) {
$.removeData(form[0], 'validator');
var serverValidationErrors = [];
for (var property in validationResult) {
//var elementId = property.toLowerCase();
var item = form.find('#' + property);
if (item.length < 1) { item = form.find('#' + property.replace('.', '_')); }
serverValidationErrors.push(item);
item.attr('data-val-failure', validationResult[property].join(', '));
jQuery.validator.unobtrusive.parseElement(item[0]);
}
form.valid();
$.removeData(form[0], 'validator');
$.each(serverValidationErrors, function () {
this.removeAttr('data-val-failure');
jQuery.validator.unobtrusive.parseElement(this[0]);
});
};
So then after a AJAX form post in the handle error function I would do something like this:
$.validator.unobtrusive.revalidate(form, { 'PhysicalAddress.CityName': ['You must select a valid city'] });
Where PhysicalAddress.CityName is the name of my viewmodel property and html input field. So, it knows to put the validation message next to the correct html element.
This works 1 time. Then when they hit submit again and my code calls the unobtrusive.revalidate method again.. it doesnt work. It only shows the validation message one time then after that the validation message disappears for good.
Does anyone have any idea as to why this might be happening?.. I stepped through the revalidate method and no errors were thrown and everything seems like it should work.. but the unobtrusive library for some reason is not re-binding the validation error message.
Thanks
Probably this behavior depends on a known problem of the jQuery validation plugin: dynamically adding new validation rules for elements works just once! Further attempts are rejected because the plugin think they are a duplicated attempt to define the already defined rules.
This is the reason why the $.validator.unobtrusive.parse doesn't work when you add newly created content (when for instance you add a new row to a collection of items). There is a patch for the $.validator.unobtrusive.parse that you might try to apply also to the revalidate function....but it is better to rewrite it from scratch in a different way. The revalidate function usse the validation plugin just to place at the right place all validation errors, then it tries to reset the state of the validation plugin. However, deleting the validator object from the form is not enough to cancel all job done since there is another object contained in the form.data('unobtrusiveValidation'), where form is a variable containing the form being validated...This data are not reset by the revalidate function...and CANNOT be reset since resetting them would cause the cancellation of ALL client side validation rules.
Maybe this problem has been solved in the last version of the validation plugin, so try to update to the last version with nuget.
If this doesn't solve your issue I can pass you an analogous function implemented in a completely different way(it mimics what the server does on the server side to show server side errors). It will be contained in the upcoming version of the Mvc Controls toolkit. However, if you give me a couple of days (I will be very busy for 2 days) I can extract it from there with its dependencies so you can use it. Let me know if you are interested.
Below the code I promised. It expects an array whose elements are:
{
id:id of the element in error
errors:array of strings errors associated to the element
}
It accepts several errors for each element but just display di first one for each element
id is different from the name because . [ ] an other special char are replaced by _
You can transform name into id on the sever with
htmlName.Replace('$', '_').Replace('.', '_').Replace('[', '_').Replace(']', '_');
or on the client in javascript with:
name.replace(/[\$\[\]\.]/g, '_');
function remoteErrors(jForm, errors) {
//////////
function inner_ServerErrors(elements) {
var ToApply = function () {
for (var i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) {
var currElement = elements[i];
var currDom = $('#' + currElement.id);
if (currDom.length == 0) continue;
var currForm = currDom.parents('form').first();
if (currForm.length == 0) continue;
if (!currDom.hasClass('input-validation-error'))
currDom.addClass('input-validation-error');
var currDisplay = $(currForm).find("[data-valmsg-for='" + currElement.name + "']");
if (currDisplay.length > 0) {
currDisplay.removeClass("field-validation-valid").addClass("field-validation-error");
replace = $.parseJSON(currDisplay.attr("data-valmsg-replace")) !== false;
if (replace) {
currDisplay.empty();
$(currElement.errors[0]).appendTo(currDisplay);
}
}
}
};
setTimeout(ToApply, 0);
}
/////////
jForm.find('.input-validation-error').removeClass('input-validation-error');
jForm.find('.field-validation-error').removeClass('field-validation-error').addClass('field-validation-valid');
var container = jForm.find("[data-valmsg-summary=true]");
list = container.find("ul");
list.empty();
if (errors.length > 0) {
$.each(errors, function (i, ival) {
$.each(ival.errors, function (j, jval) {
$("<li />").html(jval).appendTo(list);
});
});
container.addClass("validation-summary-errors").removeClass("validation-summary-valid");
inner_ServerErrors(errors);
setTimeout(function () { jForm.find('span.input-validation-error[data-element-type]').removeClass('input-validation-error') }, 0);
}
else {
container.addClass("validation-summary-valid").removeClass("validation-summary-errors");
}
}
function clearErrors(jForm) {
remoteErrors(jForm, []);
}

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