Observable Data and Refresh Data
The most common reason you would use an ObservableCollection is to make a component (like a grid, treeview, treelist, dropdown) change or react when you change that collection.
When you want to refresh the component data source like that, there are two important framework behaviors you need to be aware of - when ObservableCollection instances fire events, and how to refresh the data of a component when it is not an observable collection.
In this article:
Observable Data
Databound components can benefit from live updates - when the data source collection changes, the components should update to reflect that change. Most data-bound components in the Telerik UI for Blazor suite implement such functionality.
When the Data of the component is a collection that implements the INotifyCollectionChanged interface (such as ObservableCollection), the Telerik components subscribe to its CollectionChanged event to make live update. This means that adding items, removing items, or clearing the collection updates the components (its .Add(), .Remove() and .Clear() methods).
The Observable collections fire the CollectionChanged event only when their Add, Remove and Clear methods are called. They do not fire it when you change the value of a field of one of their elements.
Refresh Data
In Blazor, the framework will fire the OnParametersSet event of a child component (which is how child components can react to outside changes) only when it can detect a change in the object it receives through the corresponding parameter (like Data for the data sources of Telerik components). This detection works as follows:
For strings and value types, this happens when their value changes.
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For reference types (such as data collections like
List, or anyIEnumerable, and application-specific objects), this happens when the object reference changes.Thus, you would usually need to create a
newreference for the view-model field (such asTreeViewData = new List<MyTreeViewItem>(theUpdatedDataCollection);) when you want the component to update.
Telerik components that support Observable Data
The following components support observable data for their Data parameter. Note that observable data is not supported with manual data binding via the OnRead event.
You can refresh other components that do not support observable data by creating a New collection reference.