I am new to Kendo UI and I am lost as to why my grid wont display JSON data. Please help
My HTML
<head>
<title></title>
<link href="include/libraries/kendo/css/kendo.bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="include/libraries/kendo/css/kendo.common-bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<script src="include/libraries/jquery/jquery-2.2.2.min.js"></script>
<script src="include/libraries/kendo/js/kendo.all.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="example">
<div class="demo-section k-content wide">
<div>
<h4>Add or update a record</h4>
<div data-role="grid">
data-editable="true"
data-toolbar="['create', 'save']"
data-columns="[
{ 'field': 'CourseID', 'width': 270 },
{ 'field': 'CourseName' },
{ 'field': 'IsActive' },
]"
data-bind="source: courses,
visible: isVisible,
events: {
save: onSave
}"
style="height: 200px"></div>
</div>
</div>
<script>
var viewModel = kendo.observable({
isVisible: true,
courses: new kendo.data.DataSource({
schema: {
model: {
id: "CourseID",
fields: {
CourseID: { type: "number" },
CourseName: { type: "string" },
IsActive: { type: "boolean" }
}
}
},
batch: true,
transport: {
read: {
type: "GET",
cache:false,
url: "http://localhost:51447/api/Courses",
dataType: "jsonp"
},
parameterMap: function (options, operation) {
if (operation !== "read" && options.models) {
return { models: JSON.stringify(options.models) };
}
}
}
})
});
kendo.bind($("#example"), viewModel);
</script>
</div>
</body>
My Controller Code
public IQueryable<object> GetCourses()
{
return db.Courses.Select(
o => new
{
CourseID = o.CourseID,
CourseName = o.CourseName,
IsActive = o.IsActive
});
}
My JSON data being returned
[{"CourseID":1,"CourseName":"Beauty Therapy","IsActive":true},{"CourseID":2,"CourseName":"Software Development","IsActive":true},{"CourseID":3,"CourseName":"Bookkeeping and Accounting","IsActive":true}]
What I have tried:
I followed the example on Telerik's website http://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/grid/mvvm