Defining which field was changed in a grid

Question

Is it possible to identify on a kendo UI grid which field was altered on a row edit?

Right now I am sending the entire row to the server that was changed. I would like to send the request to the server to also include a variable holding the name of the field that was edited.

1. Is something like that supported by kendo or
2. is there a work around for that?

Answer 1

This is not supported out of the box. However the grid API should allow this to be implemented. Check the edit and save events. In there you can listen to changes of the model instance which is currently being edit. Here is a quick example:

$("#grid").kendoGrid({
   edit: function(e) {
     e.model.unbind("change", model_change).bind("change", model_change);
   }
});

function model_change(e) {
  var model = this;
  var field = e.field;
  // store somewhere the field and model
}