Handling dates with Asp.Net MVC and KnockoutJS

Question

I recently started working with KnockoutJs and quickly realized using the default Json(myModelWithADate) resulted in the default json encoding of \\/Date(

Answer 1

I would suggest a middle man approach through ko.mapping.fromJS( data, mapping ) this would allow you to customize even with a user defined object.

var $data = { _ID : '1', _Created : someDate };  
var $mapping = {
    '_Created' : {
       update: function (options) {
           return convertdata( options.data );
       }
    }
}
var viewDataModel = ko.mapping( data, mapping );  
ko.applyBindings( viewDataModel );

mapping parameter allows you handle changes easily and can easily be leveraged with arrays also.