Kendo UI Treeview doesn't display date correctly - json

I am trying to display my json from a mvc controller to be displayed on a checkboxed kendo ui treeview. The code on the asp.net mvc view and the json sent to the view are given below
MyDoc.cshtml code
<script>
$("#treeview").kendoTreeView({
checkboxes: {
checkChildren: true,
},
dataSource: {
//type: "odata",
transport: {
read: {
url: '#Url.Content("~/Document/GetMyDocs")',
type: "post",
dataType: "json"
}
},
schema: {
model: {
id: "id", text:"Name",
children: "Files"
}
}
},
dataTextField: [ "Name"],
check: onCheck
});
json object
[{"id":1,"Name":"Checking",
"Files":[{"Filename":"doc10","id":"1afd5a4f-086f-44d2-9287-8098384e379e"},
{"Filename":"doc11","id":"89ea3366-14b8-4e91-8273-6e2a51fbe516"}]},
{"id":2,"Name":"Saving",
"Files":[{"Filename":"doc20","id":"c7a88f5d-067e-4f20-93b6-da6eff69d532"},
{"Filename":"doc21","id":"8a0a62ed-1b4a-4e5e-8d59-d57a975a7ab0"}]}]
When I view the page only the toplevel text, "Checking" and "Saving" shows. The date present under Files comes out as undefined.
Thanks

It looks like that Kendo UI uses the dataTextField: [ "Name"] for both the parent and the child node. Since the json in the child data doesn't have a field name equal to "Name" it came out as undefined. Once I changed the property, "FileName" into "Name", it worked. The Telerik's documentation is as atrocious as other third party controls. All their demos are more geared to show how easy peasy it is to create a sexy looking UI using few hard coded data than showing how to create a real world application!

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Simple JSON issue with kendo-grid

Was wondering if you could help me, I've been battling with trying to get my rest JSON data to display correctly in a kendo-grid for a few hours now, and have just worked out it's due to additional nodes on my JSON
$(function() {
var grid = $("#grid").kendoGrid({
dataSource: {
data: {
"ttPortalCommunicationResult": [{
"UniqueID": 7,
"DocumentTitle": "Expense Contribution Scheme Guide",
"ActivationDate": "2012-05-22",
"DeactivationDate": "2020-05-12",
"CategoryDesc": "Operational news"
}],
},
pageSize: 10,
schema: {
data: "ttPortalCommunicationResult"
}
}
}).data("kendoGrid");
});
I get an error Cannot read property 'slice' of undefined.
My question is how can I use only the "ttPortalCommunicationResult" node on JSON data which contains the additional nodes?
I would have assumed kendo would understand how to traverse to that node. An explanation why it can't would also be nice.
Use dataSource schema parse method
schema: {
parse : function(data) {
return data.ttPortalCommunicationResult;
}
}

Kendo ComboBox change dataSource to json object

I have a kendo combobox created using an MVC wrapper like so:
#Html.Kendo.ComboBox().Name("Well");
I want to update the data manually using a json array stored in javascript (not from an ajax query) - I came across this code which almost works except that I get [object Object] 3 times in the ComboBox instead of the 'text' value from the json array:
$("#Well").data("kendoComboBox").dataSource.data([{text: "i1", value: "1"}, {text: "i2", value: "2"}, {text: "i3", value: "3"}]);
$("#Well").data("kendoComboBox").dataSource.query();
It seems there is no default for the text/value fields so adding:
#Html.Kendo.ComboBox().DataTextField("text").DataValueField("value").Name("Well");
fixes the issue.
Following helped me to solve the problem of dynamically updating the kendo combobox datasource,
var combobox = $("#selector").data("kendoComboBox");
if(combobox){
combobox.destroy();
combobox.dataSource.data(NewDatasourceObject);
combobox.refresh();
}
$("#Well").kendoComboBox({
placeholder: "Select...",
dataTextField: "text",
dataValueField: "value",
filter: "contains",
autoBind: true,
dataSource: {
//type: "odata",
serverFiltering: true,
transport: {
read: { url: "../your_json_url" }
}
}
});

Have jqGrid display raw json in a column

I have a use case where I would like to have jqGrid display some raw JSON for a particular column. I have the following JSON being sent from the server:
{"items":[
{
"code":"ABC123",
"description":"",
"custom_data":{"items":[
{"prop1":"val1","prop2":"val2"},
{"prop1":"val3","prop2":"val4"}
]}
},
{"code":"ABC124","description":"","custom_data":[]},
...,
]}
and a jqGrid configuration like so:
{
url:'/api/somewhere',
datatype: "json",
jsonReader : {
root:"items",
repeatitems: false,
id: "code"
},
colNames:['Code',
'Description',
'Data',],
colModel:[
{
name:'code', index:'code', width:100, hidden:false,
edittype:'text',
editable: true,
editrules:{required:true, edithidden:true},
editoptions: {readonly:false}
},
{
name:'description',
index:'description',
width:250,
editable:true,
edittype:'text',
editrules:{required:true}
},
{
name:'custom_data',
index:'custom_data',
width:100,
hidden:true,
sortable:false,
editable:true,
edittype:'text',
editrules:{required:false, edithidden:true}
},
],
...,
The grid displays OK, but the custom_data column is displayed as [object Object]. What I need is for it to display the raw JSON string I have tried calling JSON.stringify on the custom_data object for each row object using the loadComplete event, but that didn't work. I need to do some data manipulation after the GET anyway, as I want to delete null values from the custom_data object.
My users are comfortable reading and editing raw JSON, so I also need the add/edit form to accept raw JSON which will then get POSTed.
I'm not sure if I'm simply using the wrong event to convert the object back to a string, or if there is something else going on.
What you can do is usage of custom formatter for "custom_data" column
formatter: function (cellValue, options, rawData) {
return cellValue.items ? JSON.stringify(cellValue.items) : "";
}
I changed in the demo hidden property for "custom_data" column to true to see the data
Additionally you can consider to use userdata instead of hidden column to save additional custom data. I recommend you to read the answer additionally which shows not only how to use userdata, but additionally how to show additional data in form subgrid.

Solr live search using ExtJs4

i'm using solr+haystack(django plugin) on the backend and the search is working fine;
While Django(and Haystack) with its templates is doing everything for me(I mean its pretty simple to configure and use), ExtJS4 is a little more complex;
The question is how to use Solr using ExtJS4?
An example is very much appreciated;
Thanks for any help and sorry for my English;
As ExtJS4 is a MVC framework, the solution is done like MVC;
The controller/Search.js
Ext.define('yourapp.controller.Search',{
extend:'Ext.app.Controller',
stores:[
'Searches'
],
views:[
'search.Search',
'search.SearchList'
],
models:[
'Search'
],
init:function(){
this.control({
"search":{
'keyup':this.search,
},
});
},
search:function(inputedTxt, e, eOpts){
this.getSearchesStore().load({
//When sending a request, q will rely to request.POST['q'] on server-side;
//inputedTxt.getValue() -- a value, entered in textfield (or whatever)
params:{
q:inputedTxt.getValue()
},
callback:function(result){
if(result[0]){
//do something with the result
//i'd been creating a window with a grid inside. "Grid"'s view is written below.
}
}
}
});
The models/Search.js
Ext.define('yourapp.model.Search',{
extend:'Ext.data.Model',
fields:[
{name:'name', type:'string'}
]
});
The store/Searches.js
Ext.define('yourapp.store.Searches',{
extend:'Ext.data.Store',
storeId: "searchStore",
model:'yourapp.model.Search',
autoLoad: false,
proxy:{
type:'ajax',
// server-side url
url: '/searchlist/',
actionMethods:{create: "POST", read: "POST", update: "POST", destroy: "POST"},
reader:{
type:'json',
root:'searches'
}
}
});
The view/search/Search.js
//a Text field to input text;
Ext.define('yourapp.view.search.Search',{
extend:'Ext.form.field.Text',
alias: 'widget.search',
id: "searchView",
enableKeyEvents: true,
initComponent:function(){
this.callParent(arguments);
}
});
The view/search/SearchList.js
//a view for a result
Ext.define('yourapp.view.search.SearchList',{
extend: 'Ext.grid.Panel',
alias:'widget.searchlist',
title: 'search result',
store: 'Searches',
columns:[
{
header:'Name',
dataIndex:'name',
flex:1
}
]
});
Somewhere in the view/Viewport.js xtype: 'search', should be inserted for a text field to be displayed.
That's all for a ExtJS4 part.
On server-side -- Django:
'haystack' and Solr should be installed and configured (by 'configured' i mean: search should already work on the server-side);
In someapp/view.py
def searchlist(request):
from haystack.query import SearchQuerySet
# POST["q"] should be receivedt from our client-side
searchText = request.POST["q"]
sqs = SearchQuerySet().filter(name=searchText)
data = []
for result in sqs:
data.append({"name": result.object.name})
return HttpResponse('{ success:true, searches:'+simplejson.dumps(data)+'}', mimetype = 'application/json')
Finally in your urls.py you should add:
(r'^searchlist/','someapp.views.searchlist'),
That was for it. Best wishes.
P.S.
I know this is not the greatest answer and there's lack of explanation, but as for me, I rather prefer a code example than verbal explanation.
SOLR has JSON output from its queries using wt=json param and can readily be consumed by ExtJS.
http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolJSON?action=fullsearch&context=180&value=jsonp&titlesearch=Titles#JSON_Response_Writer
if you need to use jsonp you can specify a callback function via this param json.wrf=callback

EXTJS JsonStore not loading proeprly

I have a JSONStore like :
OrdersStore = Ext.extend(Ext.data.JsonStore, {
constructor: function(cfg) {
cfg = cfg || {};
OrdersStore.superclass.constructor.call(this, Ext.apply({
storeId: 'ordersStore',
url: '/ajaxSupport.action',
root: 'rows',
baseParams: {
action: 'getorderlegsearchgrid'
},
fields: [
{
name: 'orderId'
}
]
},
cfg));
}
});
new OrdersStore();
This store is attached to a grid : 'pendingOrdersGrid'.
When I do:
alert(Ext.util.JSON.encode(this.pendingOrdersGrid.getStore().getAt(0)));
I hope to get the first record. But I get 'null'
I can't give you a complete answer from this information but some hints:
don't extend a store with a fixed storeId, url or fields! That's really bad design
if possible use browser that supports a console (Firefox with firebug or IE with developer toolbar [or FF4/IE9]) and debug the content of your store in the console.
to read the content of a record try something like this.pendingOrdersGrid.getStore().getAt(0).data.orderId