Monday, October 2, 2017

Knockout options group binding with JS objects

If we need to bind complex JS objects to select HTML element in knockout with optgroups then the following jsfiddle has great sample

http://jsfiddle.net/rniemeyer/aCS7D/

so the HTML binding looks like:

<select data-bind="foreach: groups, value: selectedOption">
    <optgroup data-bind="attr: {label: label}, foreach: children">
        <option data-bind="text: label, option: $data"></option>
    </optgroup>
</select>

       
<hr />

<div data-bind="text: specialProperty"></div>

and js code looks like:

ko.bindingHandlers.option = {
    update: function(element, valueAccessor) {
       var value = ko.utils.unwrapObservable(valueAccessor());
       ko.selectExtensions.writeValue(element, value); 
    }       
};

function Group(label, children) {
    this.label = ko.observable(label);
    this.children = ko.observableArray(children);
}

function Option(label, property) {
    this.label = ko.observable(label);
    this.someOtherProperty = ko.observable(property);
}

var ViewModel = function() {
    this.groups = ko.observableArray([
        new Group("Group 1", [
            new Option("Option 1", "A"),
            new Option("Option 2", "B"),
            new Option("Option 3", "C")
        ]),
        new Group("Group 2", [
            new Option("Option 4", "D"),
            new Option("Option 5", "E"),
            new Option("Option 6", "F")
        ])
    ]);

    this.selectedOption = ko.observable();

    this.specialProperty = ko.computed(function(){
        var selected = this.selectedOption();
        return selected ? selected.someOtherProperty() : 'unknown';
    }, this);
};

ko.applyBindings(new ViewModel());

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