How to get events for FullCalendar from Controller?

Question

I have a div, where I want to show the calendar based on button click:

<label class="btn" onclick="getCalendar();"> Show Calendar </label>

<div id="calendarDiv">

</div>

The getCalendar() function is implemented as following:

function getCalendar() {
    var calendar = new FullCalendar.Calendar($("#calendarDiv"), {
        plugins: ['dayGrid'],
        header: {
            left: 'title',
            center: '',
            right: 'today prev,next'
        },
        buttonText: {
            today: 'Today'
        },

        defaultView: 'dayGridMonth',
        defaultDate: '2019-09-12',

        events: function(fetchInfo, successCallback, failureCallback) {
            $.post('/Customer/GetCalendarEvents',
                $.param({
                        selectedCountryIds: getSelectionsByName('cntName'),
                        fiscalYearEnd: '31/12/2018'
                    },
                    true),
                function (res) {
                    var events = [];
                    console.log(res);
                    $.each(res,
                        function (index, value) {
                            events.push({
                                title: value.title,
                                start: value.start
                            });
                        });
                    successCallback(events);
                })
                .fail(function () {
                failureCallback(alert('bla')); 
            });
        }
    });
    calendar.render();
}

Where, the GetCalendarEvents(selectedCountryIds, fiscalYearEnd) returns a Json array with a list of events that is constructed as following:

public JsonResult GetCalendarEvents(List<int> selectedCountryIds, string fiscalYearEnd) {
    // some initial steps to get finalList
    // creating result array
    var result = finalList.Select(r => new
    {
        title = r.Item2 + " : " + r.Item3,
        start = r.Item1
    });
    return Json(result, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
}

The function returns correct array and the events[] is properly generated, however, when I run it I get nothing shown and in console I see an error:

main.min.js:6 Uncaught TypeError: e.addEventListener is not a function
    at O (main.min.js:6)
    at e.bindHandlers (main.min.js:6)
    at e.render (main.min.js:6)
    at getCalendar (ViewName:1118) // this is the line with calendar.render();
    at HTMLLabelElement.onclick (ViewName:1037)

Any suggestions what can be an issue and how could I resolve it? I am using the latest version of FullCalendar.

Answer 1

It looks like the problem is that $("#calendarDiv") returns a jQuery object, but the fullCalendar constructor expects a native DOM element.

You could write $("#calendarDiv")[0] to extract the DOM element from the jQuery object (as suggested in one of the comments), but it's kind of pointless to create a jQuery object just so you can throw it away again immediately.

Instead just use a native selector:

var calendar = new FullCalendar.Calendar(document.querySelector("#calendarDiv"), {

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P.S. I think you could simplify your events code a lot. This code stood out to me initially:

events.push({
  title: value.title,
  start: value.start
}); 

It's unclear why you are recreating an object which has an identical structure to the original? You will get output which is exactly the same as the input!

If the server is already outputting the JSON in the right format, then you can use the simpler events as JSON feed pattern to connect your events to fullCalendar. You just give fullCalendar the URL and the basic parameters and it will take care of the rest:

events: {
  url: '/Customer/GetCalendarEvents',
  method: "POST",
  extraParams: function() { // a function that returns an object
    return {
      selectedCountryIds: getSelectionsByName('cntName'),
      fiscalYearEnd: '31/12/2018'
    };
  }
}

Answer 2

As you can see in the official docs you need to pass Element , but in you code $("#calendarDiv") jquery will return array-like object of Elements read mode here, so if you need to use jquery selector you can get it like this $("#calendarDiv")[0] or you can do it like the suggest in the official docs

 var calendar = new FullCalendar.Calendar(document.getElementById('calendar'), { ...