Kendo DataSource: How to define “Computed” Properties for data read from remote odata source

Question

Situation:

• kendo DataSource

  var ordersDataSource = new kendo.data.DataSource({
      type: \"odata\",
      transport: {
          read: {
                  
  
  
          

Answer 1

Below an example to use it in a grid. It can then also sort the column.

$("#grid").kendoGrid({ 
    dataSource: {
        data: [
            { first: "John", last: "Doe" }, 
            { first: "Jane", last: "Doe" }
        ],
        schema: {
          model: {
            // Calculated field
            fullName: function() {
              return this.first + " " + this.last;
            },
            fields: {
               first: { type: "string" },
               last: { type: "string" }
            }
          }
        }
    },
    columns: [
        {
            // Trigger function of the Calculated field
            field: "fullName()",
            title: "Fullname"
        },
        {
            field: "first",
            title: "firstname"
        }
    ]
});