I am combining Telerik Kendo grid with Angular using the Angular Kendo UI project.
I have the following markup:
So I recently struggled with this as well.
The key, it seams is to call the .read() function on the Datasource object. Unfortunately, i've only found out how to do this from a jQuery style call like this:
angular.element('#theGrid').data("kendo-grid").dataSource.read();
Now of all that, the id selector "#theGrid" will depend on your implementation and what your containing div is Id'd as. Confusingly, the .data("kendo-grid") bit is hard coded in the Angular directive and will be the same regardless of your implementation.
I know you're not supposed to do Dom Manipulation in Angular, but needing to lazy-load a complex Kendo grid necessitated a bit of angular magic/hacking. I created a "refresh grid" function that enables a promise-based flow control over a dom-element so that I can refresh the grid after the grid has instantiated itself. Here's an example implementation of that:
#this is in a service called KendoGridService, so understand the context.
stop: undefined,
refreshGrid: function() {
// don't queue another refresh of the grid.
if (angular.isDefined(KendoGridService.stop)) return;
var element = angular.element("#kgrid");
KendoGridService.stop = $interval(function() {
if(angular.element("#kgrid").data("kendo-grid")){
KendoGridService.stopRefreshLoop(element);
}
}, 100, 10);
},
stopRefreshLoop: function(element) {
if (angular.isDefined(KendoGridService.stop)) {
angular.element("#kgrid").data("kendo-grid").dataSource.read();
$interval.cancel(KendoGridService.stop);
KendoGridService.stop = undefined;
}
},
With this in place, you can now do the basic load of your grid data, then refresh it after your (presumably promised based) updates complete by calling (in this case):
KendoGridService.refreshGrid();
that method uses the $interval service built into Angular to run itself every 100ms, for a maximum of 10 iterations. IF during any of those iterations, the dom element is found, the stopRefreshLoop method is called.
As far as hacks go, i think it's on the "more elegant" side of hacks.
Just pass in a scope variable to the directive, then inside of your controller you can use the variable to call whatever widget methods you need.
<div kendo-grid="grid" ...></div>
<script>
...
$scope.getTasks = function() {
// scope.grid is the widget reference
$scope.grid.refresh();
}
...
</script>
Ref: http://blogs.telerik.com/kendoui/posts/14-02-26/a-few-angular-kendo-ui-best-practices
Your datasource must be a kendo object
$scope.thingsOptions = {
dataSource: new kendo.data.DataSource({
type: "json",
transport: {
read: "/OM/om/getAssets",
dataType: "json"
},
schema: {
model: {
id: "ProductID",
then it is possible to call
$scope.thingsOptions.dataSource.read();