KnockoutJS, updating ViewModel after ajax call

Question

I am using Knockout and the Knockout Mapping plugin.

• My MVC3 Action returns a View and not JSON directly as such I convert my Model into JSON.
• This is a d

Answer 1

I guess Response is reserved, when I change "Response" to "resp", everything went fine. See http://jsfiddle.net/BBzVm/

Answer 2

Should't you use ko.mapping.updateFromJSON on your success event? Chapter Working with JSON strings on Knockout Mapping site says:

If your Ajax call returns a JSON string (and does not deserialize it into a JavaScript object), then you can use the functions ko.mapping.fromJSON and ko.mapping.updateFromJSON to create and update your view model instead.