Bind AngularJS AutoComplete with WebAPI
Environment
| Product | Progress® Kendo UI® AutoComplete for jQuery |
| Operating System | Windows 10 64bit |
| Browser | Google Chrome |
| Browser Version | 61.0.3163.100 |
Starting with R2 2022, the Kendo UI team officially drops the support for AngularJS 1.x through Kendo UI for jQuery. The AngularJS related files and functionality are removed from the bundles and distribution in R3 SP1 2023. The last version that contains the files is R3 2023.
Description
How can I bind a Kendo UI AutoComplete to the WebAPI in an AngularJS scenario?
Solution
To achieve the desired scenario, set the dataSource type to webapi and the transport read URL to the method in your controller.
The example loads Kendo UI 2023.3.1010 version.
<script src="https://kendo.cdn.telerik.com/2023.3.1010/js/angular.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://kendo.cdn.telerik.com/2023.3.1010/js/kendo.all.min.js"></script>
<div id="example" ng-app="KendoDemos">
<div class="demo-section k-content" ng-controller="MyCtrl">
<h4>Autocomplete</h4>
<input kendo-auto-complete
k-data-text-field="'Name'"
k-data-value-field="'Id'"
options="autoCompleteOptions" style="width: 21%;" />
</div>
</div><script>
angular.module("KendoDemos", [ "kendo.directives" ])
.controller("MyCtrl", function($scope){
$scope.autoCompleteOptions = {
dataSource: {
type: "webapi",
serverFiltering: true,
transport: {
read: {
url: "/api/products"
}
},
schema: {
data: "Data",
total: "Total",
errors: "Errors"
}
}
};
})
</script>
----------- Controller implementation
// GET api/values
public DataSourceResult Get([System.Web.Http.ModelBinding.ModelBinder(typeof(WebApiDataSourceRequestModelBinder))]DataSourceRequest request)
{
var products = new List<Product>
{
new Product { Name = "Product 1", Id = "1" },
new Product { Name = "Product 2", Id = "2" },
new Product { Name = "Product 3", Id = "3" }
};
return products.ToDataSourceResult(request);
}