#Django Kendo UI backend

##Description

Provides a generic view that will feed Kendo UI (http://kendoui.com) components with model data. Supports server-side pagin, filtering, sorting and grouping.

##Requirements

• Django >=1.3.0
• json_utils >=0.2
• querystring_parser>=1.1

##Installation

$ pip install django-kendoui-backend

or

$ easy_install django-kendoui-backend

or (reqiuires you to solve dependencies first)

$ git clone git://github.com/omab/django-kendoui-backend.git
$ export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$(pwd)/django-kendoui-backend/

or (reqiuires you to solve dependencies first)

$ git clone git://github.com/omab/django-kendoui-backend.git
$ cd django-kendoui-backend
$ sudo python setup.py install

• Add to urls.py:

    from kendoui_backend.views import KendoListProviderView
    url(r'^example_model$', KendoListProviderView.as_view(model=ExampleModel), name='example_model'),
  

• Feed your Kendo UI component with data source, e.g.:

    var ds = new kendo.data.DataSource({
        pageSize: 20,
        serverPaging: true,
        serverFiltering: true,
        serverSorting: true,
        transport: {
            read: {
                url: "{% url example_model %}",
                dataType: "json",
            }
        },
        schema: {
            total: "count",
            data: function(d) {return d['payload'].map(function(e) {return e['fields']})} // This bit is required for Kendo UI to navigate through data set received from the server correctly
        }
    }
  

• Create a Kendo UI component with a DataSource created in above step:

    $("#dropdown").kendoDropDownList({
        dataTextField: "name",
        dataValueField: "number",
        dataSource: ds3,
        index: 0,
    });
  

For more details see the example app

This code is released under MIT License.