loading a knockout.js observableArray() from .ajax() call

Question

This puzzles me. It must be something small I\'m not seeing. I\'m trying to load a very simple observableArray in knockout with an ajax call.

javasc

Answer 1

We can use a simple JavaScript util function as a work-around.

Instead of viewModel.vendors(data);, wrapping with eval (research the dangers of eval first) will work.

eval("viewModel.vendors("+JSON.stringify(data)+");");