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I'm building functionality onto a webpage which the user can perform multiple times. Through the user's action, an object/model is created and applied to HTML using ko.applyBindings().
The data-bound HTML is created through jQuery templates.
So far so good.
When I repeat this step by creating a second object/model and call ko.applyBindings() I encounter two problems:
To get around this problem, after the first pass I call jQuery's .empty() to remove the templated HTML which contains all the data-bind attributes, so that it's no longer in the DOM. When the user starts the process for the second pass the data-bound HTML is re-added to the DOM.
But like I said, when the HTML is re-added to the DOM and re-bound to the new object/model, it still includes data from the the first object/model, and I still get the JS error which doesn't occur during the first pass.
The conclusion appears to be that Knockout is holding on to these bound properties, even though the markup is removed from the DOM.
So what I'm looking for is a means of removing these bound properties from Knockout; telling knockout that there is no longer an observable model. Is there a way to do this?
EDIT
The basic process is that the user uploads a file; the server then responds with a JSON object, the data-bound HTML is added to the DOM, then the JSON object model is bound to this HTML using
mn.AccountCreationModel = new AccountViewModel(jsonData.Account);
ko.applyBindings(mn.AccountCreationModel);
Once the user has made some selections on the model, the same object is posted back to the server, the data-bound HTML is removed from then DOM, and I then have the following JS
mn.AccountCreationModel = null;
When the user wishes to do this once more, all these steps are repeated.
I'm afraid the code is too 'involved' to do a jsFiddle demo.
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To create an observable, assign the ko. observable function to the variable. A default value can be specified in the constructor of the call. Knockout then converts your variable into a function and tracks when the value changes, in order to notify the UI elements associated with the variable.
Knockout. js defines an important role when we want to detect and respond to changes on one object, we uses the observable. An observable is useful in various scenarios where we are displaying or editing multiple values and require repeated sections of the UI to appear and disappear as items are inserted and deleted.
A binding context is an object that holds data that you can reference from your bindings. While applying bindings, Knockout automatically creates and manages a hierarchy of binding contexts. The root level of the hierarchy refers to the viewModel parameter you supplied to ko. applyBindings(viewModel) .
Have you tried calling knockout's clean node method on your DOM element to dispose of the in memory bound objects?
var element = $('#elementId')[0];
ko.cleanNode(element);
Then applying the knockout bindings again on just that element with your new view models would update your view binding.
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