Kendo UI does not call create if a function is specified - kendo-ui

Question

Using Kendo.web.js versions 2013.2.716 and 2012.3.1315, I am trying to use a function in my transport.create rather than calling a URL. What I find is that the function does not get called. Instead a default URL is called and the resulting HTML appears to cause an error in the bowels of kendo because it is expected to be JSON instead.
I assume that this is some type of configuration error, but I can't figure out where the problem is.
Here is a snippet of the code:
var clientListDS = new kendo.data.DataSource({
transport: {
read: {
url: window.baseUrl + 'HealthCheck/ClientSummary',
dataType: 'json',
type: 'POST'
},
create: function(a,b,c) { alert('Create'); },
createY: window.baseUrl + 'HealthCheck/DontCallMe',
createX: {
url: window.baseUrl + 'HealthCheck/DontCallMe',
dataType: 'json',
type: 'POST'
},
whatWeWantCreateToDo: function () {
showChooseDialog('Some Random String', 'Select Client', OnRefreshInactiveClientList);
},
destroy: function () {
alert('destroy');
},
update: function () {
alert('update');
}
},
autoSync: true,
schema: {
model: {
id: 'ID',
fields: {
ID: { required: false, type: 'number', nullable: true },
ClientName: { type: 'string' },
ClientTag: { type: 'string' },
Status: { type: 'string' }
}
}
}
});
Then I use the resulting data source to build a grid like this:
$('#cClientGrid').kendoGrid({
dataSource: clientListDS,
columns: [
{ field: 'ClientTag', title: 'Tag'},
{ field: 'ClientName', title: 'Name' },
{ field: 'Status' }
],
editable: {
mode: 'incell',
createAt: 'bottom'
},
edit: function (pEvent) {
if (pEvent.model.isNew())
alert('create');
else
alert('Edit');
},
toolbar: ['create']
});
Some behavior that is worthy of note:
You see several attempts at the create configuration. If I use CreateY or CreateX, it will call the resulting URL. If I use Create or WhatWeWantCreateToDo, I end up downloading the containing page with each element of my schema as get string items (I assume this is some type of default behavior as I can't find a reference to the URL which is downloaded).
When I turn off autoSync, the grid will call its edit function when I use the toolbar to create a new item. When I turn on autoSync, the edit function does not get called. Instead the data source create functionality runs.
Any thoughts or insight on how I might be able to call a function instead of a URL will be appreciated.

Answer 1

First make in transport everything being an URL or a function, do not mix them up.
If you need to implement read as a function, you simply do:
transport: {
read : function (options) {
$.ajax({
url: window.baseUrl + 'HealthCheck/ClientSummary',
dataType: 'json',
type: 'POST',
success : function (result) {
options.success(result);
}
});
},