Kendo Mobile - Submit Entire Form - kendo-ui

Question

I have a kendo mobile form that I will be using to capture some information from my users.
I would like to post the data to a web service or aspx(test page) using ajax. It seems like overkill to use MVVM for a form that the user fills out and there will be no reads/updates/deletes.
The ajax call happens but I cannot figure out how to post the data . Nothing goes over if i use $(this).serialize(). If I hard code some data, then it works.
There are going to be a lot of controls on the page and i hope i don't have to manually build the form data. I cannot add a <form> tag as it breaks the styling of the page.
If there is a more "kendo" way of doing this please show me how. Thanks
Here is what I have so far.
//Submit Form
function submit_form(e) {
$.post('TestPost.aspx', $(this).serialize(), function (data) {
// This is executed when the call to web service was succesful.
// 'data' contains the response from the request
alert(data);
}).error(function (xhr, ajaxOptions, thrownError, request, error) {
alert('xrs.status = ' + xhr.status + '\n' +
'thrown error = ' + thrownError + '\n' +
'xhr.statusText = ' + xhr.statusText + '\n' +
'request = ' + request + '\n' +
'error = ' + error);
});
e.preventDefault();
}
//Example of html controls
<div id="checks" data-role="view" data-title="Foo" data-layout="checklayout">
<ul data-role="listview" data-style="inset" data-type="group">
<li>Floor
<ul>
<li>
<label for="Foo">
<input type="radio" name="Foo" id="FooOk" value="Ok" />
Ok</label>
</li>
<li>
<label for="Foo2">
<input type="radio" name="Foo" id="FooNotOk" value="NotOk" />
Not Ok</label>
</li>
<li id="Comment1" class="divComment" style="display: none;">
<label>
Comments
<input type="text" name="TextComment" id="TextComment" placeholder="Type Comments" autocomplete="off" tabindex="1" />
</label>
</li>
<li id="C1" class="divComment" style="display: none;">
<label>
Charges
<select id="Charges" name="Charges" >
<option value="nc">test</option>
</select>
</label>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul data-role="listview" data-style="inset" data-type="group">
<li>Picture
<ul>
<li>
<label>
Select a Photo
<input type="file" id="kitFile" style="display: none;" />
<a data-role="button" data-click="select" style="float: right;">Select</a>
</label>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
//Submit button
<a data-align="right" data-role="button" class="nav-button" data-click="submit_form">Save</a>

Answer 1

Here $(this) will give u only the button element. The easy way to do this is use the built in MVVM feature in Kendo UI Mobile. create an model as JS object and set data-model attribute of your view as this object. Now on click of the submit button, just send this object to your server using ajax. This way u are reducing the amount of data sent to the server.
Documentation on mobile and mVVM integration: http://docs.kendoui.com/getting-started/mobile/mvvm .

Answer 2

I have used a PageMethod previously.
http://encosia.com/using-jquery-to-directly-call-aspnet-ajax-page-methods/
Would something like this help your cause?
Let's take an example of such a method in the code behind:
[WebMethod]
public static string MyMethod(string Id)
{
return string.Format("Thanks for calling me with id: " + Id);
}
Things to note: the method must be static and decorated with the [WebMethod] attribute.
And on the client side you could invoke this method using the jQuery.ajax() function like this:
$.ajax({
url: 'default.aspx/MyMethod',
type: 'POST',
contentType: 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
data: JSON.stringify({ ID : ID }),
success: function (result) {
alert(result.d);
}
});
Make sure that in your WebForm you have actually added reference to the jQuery library before using it.
For example:
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>