i'm currently experimenting a bit with knockout and javascript in general but just hit a problem I can't solve.
I have a viewmodel with several (simple, since this is just for testing) sub VMs and one of them has a computed variable which should display the aggregated costs of an array of another VM.
When I load the data via json everything gets populated nicely but the computed remains "undefined". I already tried flagging the computed with "deferEvaluation" but that didn't help.
To make it short here is my jsfiddle http://jsfiddle.net/v73rxckf/9/
Any Ideas? Or am I doing something wrong in general?
JS Code:
function Service(data) {
var self = this;
self.Cost = ko.observable(data.Cost);
}
function Action(data) {
var self = this;
self.Name = ko.observable(data.Name);
self.Dates = ko.observableArray(data.Dates);
self.Services = ko.observableArray(data.Services);
self.OverallCost = ko.computed(function() {
calculated = 0;
ko.utils.arrayForEach(self.Services(), function(item) {
calculated += parseFloat(ko.utils.unwrapObservable(item.Cost));
});
return calculated;
}, { deferEvaluation : true });
}
function Campaign(data) {
var self = this;
self.Name = ko.observable(data.Name);
self.Deadline = ko.observable(data.Deadline);
self.ActionList = ko.observableArray(data.ActionList);
}
function ApplicationViewModel () {
var self = this;
self.List = ko.observableArray([]);
$.ajax("/echo/json/", {
data: {
json: ko.toJSON(fakeData)
},
type: "POST",
dataType: 'json',
success: function(data) {
var mappedCampaigns = $.map(data, function(item) {
return new Campaign(item);
});
self.List(mappedCampaigns);
}
});
}
var fakeData = [{
"Name":"testname1",
"Deadline":"testdeadline1",
"ActionList":[
{
"Name":"testaction1",
"Dates":[ { "DateValue":"testdate1" }, { "DateValue":"testdate2" } ],
"Services":[ { "Cost":"100" }, { "Cost":"50" } ]
},
{
"Name":"testaction2",
"Dates":[ { "DateValue":"testdate1" }, { "DateValue":"testdate2" } ],
"Services":[{ "Cost":"100" }, { "Cost":"50" } ]
}
]
}];
ko.applyBindings(new ApplicationViewModel());
You are not initializing your Action objects, in your campaign view model you need to new-up your action view models and push them into the observable array:
function Campaign(data) {
var self = this;
self.Name = ko.observable(data.Name);
self.Deadline = ko.observable(data.Deadline);
self.ActionList = ko.observableArray([]);
if(data.ActionList){
for(var i = 0; i < data.ActionList.length; i++){
self.ActionList.push(new Action(data.ActionList[i]));
}
}
}
You will need to do the same thing for your Service view model as well. e.g.:
function Service(data) {
var self = this;
self.Cost = ko.observable(data.Cost);
}
function Action(data) {
var self = this;
self.Name = ko.observable(data.Name);
self.Dates = ko.observableArray(data.Dates);
self.Services = ko.observableArray([]);
if(data.Services){
for(var i = 0; i < data.Services.length; i++){
self.Services.push(new Service(data.Services[i]));
}
}
self.OverallCost = ko.computed(function() {
calculated = 0;
ko.utils.arrayForEach(self.Services(), function(item) {
calculated += parseFloat(ko.utils.unwrapObservable(item.Cost));
});
return calculated;
});
}