Submit form with Kendo MVC Grid and other elements

Question

I am trying to get a form containing a Kendo MVC grid and other elements to submit.

• The View model contains contains three string fields and an IEnumer

Answer 1

I was inspired by codebeastie and @user1878526 to produce the following hybrid idea - simply returning the grid as a list of strings to the controller save action:

Controller:

Function Save(ThisForum As myModel, gridData As List(Of String)) As ActionResult

View:

$("#myForm").submit(function (event) {
    var grid = $("#myGrid").data("kendoGrid");
    var data = grid.dataSource.view();
    var input;
    for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
        var s = JSON.stringify(data[i]).replace(/["']/g, "");
        input = $("", { type: 'hidden', name: 'data[' + i + ']', value: s });
        $(this).append($(input));
    }
})

This can then be parsed in the controller reasonably easily by Spliting on commas and colons.