I'm attempting to populate a Kendo UI Grid with an object, however I'm using a DTO instead of the Entity Framework object that's defined in my database. The problem is that my DataSourceResult expects an object in the form of an IQueryable and my DTO is of a type List. Here is my Invoice object:
PublicClassInvoice <Key> PublicPropertyInvoiceID AsInteger PublicPropertyPrice AsDouble PublicPropertyAmountPaid AsDouble PublicPropertyStatus AsInvoiceStatus <StringLength(10000)> PublicPropertyMemo AsString PublicPropertyClient AsClient PublicPropertyClientID AsIntegerEndClassAnd here is my DTO:
PublicClassInvoiceDTO PublicPropertyInvoiceID AsInteger PublicPropertyInvoiceDate AsDate PublicPropertyPrice AsDouble PublicPropertyAmountPaid AsDouble PublicPropertyStatus AsString PublicPropertyMemo AsString PublicPropertyClient AsString PublicPropertyClientID AsIntegerEndClassI'm using the following code in my GET in my API to return the object to my Grid. I want to return a DataSourceResult as opposed to a List because I can use the paging and sorting functions to return data from my API as efficiently as possible.
<HttpGet, Route("api/client/all/invoices/{InvoiceStatus:int}")>PublicFunctionGetInvoices(requestMessage AsHttpRequestMessage) AsDataSourceResult DimInvoices AsIEnumerable(Of Invoice) = _db.Invoices.Include("Client").OrderBy(Function(i) i.InvoiceDate) DiminvDTOs AsNewList(Of InvoiceDTO) ForEachinv AsInvoice InInvoices DiminvDTO AsNewInvoiceDTO invDTO.Client = inv.Client.Name invDTO.ClientID = inv.ClientID invDTO.Memo = inv.Memo invDTO.InvoiceDate = inv.InvoiceDate invDTO.Price = inv.Price invDTO.AmountPaid = inv.AmountPaid invDTO.Status = status(inv.Status) invDTOs.Add(invDTO) Next Dimresult AsNewDataSourceResult() result.Data = invDTOs result.Total = invDTOs.Count Dimresponse AsHttpResponseMessage = Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.Created, result) Return responseEndFunctionI can't query the DTO because it's a list. I can set the Data property of the DataSourceRequest to my DTO, however then I lose the paging functionality of the DataSourceRequest object built in that works well with the Grid. How do I use a DTO with the DataSourceResult?