What is Kendo DataSource?

Question

I am looking at a piece of code written for Kendo which looks like following:

public ActionResult ReadEmployee([DataSourceRequest]DataSourceRequest request)
    {
        return Json(GetEmployees().ToDataSourceResult(request), JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
    }

I have few questions about it:

Is DataSourceRequest a kind of ActionResult?
Since it is used in confines of KendoUI, I am not able to understand the nature of this object in much more detail.

What is exact role of this object? Is there any documentation which explains it in details?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

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in summary it is a model binder for Kendo.

ModelBinding is the mechanism ASP.NET MVC uses to create strongly-typed objects (or fill primitive-type parameters) from the input stream (usually an HTTP request).

for more information check what is modelBinder

edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

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answered Mar 05 '15 at 05:42

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 05 '15 at 08:19

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All the paging and sorting logic that a grid provides is in that object. So you make an IQueryable and then all the paging magic happens in the ToDataSourceResult method.

answered Mar 05 '15 at 08:19

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What is Kendo DataSource?

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