Code Bites: Parsing Server Response With Kendo DataSource

site.js

var viewModel = kendo.observable({

    users: new kendo.data.DataSource({

        transport: {
            read: {
                url: "http://localhost:10243/api/users",
                type: "GET",
                dataType: "json"
            }
        },
        
        schema: {
            
            parse: function (response) {

                // store transformed user data
                var usersData = [];

                for (var i = 0; i < response.length; i++) {

                    // create new user object
                    var user = {
                        id: response[i].Id,
                        fullname: response[i].FirstName + " " + response[i].LastName, // combine first name and last name
                        email: response[i].Email
                    };

                    usersData.push(user);
                }

                return usersData;

            }
        },
    })

});