Kendo UI Grid binded to OData: how to get the request URL?

Question

I have a Kendo Grid binded to a remote OData endpoint. How can I capture the request URL sent to the remote endpoint in one of the javascript events, like the DataSource's onRequestStart ?

this gives me the filter/sort objects

var filter = this.filter();
var sort = this.sort();

But I want the actual URL, like

http://..serviceroot/table1?$filter=....

Answer 1

The easiest way is via beforeSend:

   transport: {
     read: {
        url: "http://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/service/Northwind.svc/Orders",
        beforeSend: function(e, request) {
          console.log(request.url);
        }
     }
   }