Further Environment Informations

Component: @progress/kendo-angular-treeview
Severity: regression (worked in v23, broken in v24)

rxjs: 7.8.2

zone.js 0.15.1 (zone-based, not zoneless)

typescript 6.0.3

Summary

When a flat [nodes] array is bound to kendo-treeview and the array reference is replaced after the first change-detection pass, the TreeView keeps rendering the initial nodes and never reflects the new data. In v23.x the same binding updated correctly.

Minimal reproduction (standalone, drop into a blank Angular 22 app / StackBlitz)

import { Component, signal } from '@angular/core';
import { bootstrapApplication } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { TreeViewModule } from '@progress/kendo-angular-treeview';

interface Node { name: string; }

@Component({
  selector: 'app-root',
  standalone: true,
  imports: [TreeViewModule],
  template: `
    <button (click)="replaceNodes()">Replace nodes</button>

    <p>Plain list (control — reflects the current data):</p>
    <ul>
      @for (n of nodes(); track n.name) { <li>{{ n.name }}</li> }
    </ul>

    <p>Kendo TreeView (bug — stays on the initial data):</p>
    <kendo-treeview
      [nodes]="nodes()"
      textField="name"
      [kendoTreeViewSelectable]="{ enabled: false }"
    >
      <ng-template kendoTreeViewNodeTemplate let-dataItem>
        {{ dataItem.name }}
      </ng-template>
    </kendo-treeview>
  `,
})
export class AppComponent {
  protected readonly nodes = signal<Node[]>([{ name: 'A' }, { name: 'B' }]);
  protected replaceNodes(): void {
    this.nodes.set([{ name: 'X' }, { name: 'Y' }, { name: 'Z' }]);
  }
}

bootstrapApplication(AppComponent).catch(err => console.error(err));

Steps to reproduce

1. Load the component — TreeView renders A, B.
2. Click Replace nodes (assigns a brand-new array [X, Y, Z]).

Expected

The TreeView re-renders and shows X, Y, Z (like the plain <ul> control right above it, which updates correctly — proving the data really changed and change detection ran).

Actual (v24.2.2)

The TreeView still shows A, B. The new [nodes] reference is ignored.

Regression

Identical code updated correctly on @progress/kendo-angular-treeview 23.x. It broke on the upgrade to 24.x. Bisecting across 24.0.0 → 24.2.2 would pinpoint the exact patch.

Current workaround

Force the TreeView to be destroyed and recreated whenever the data reference changes:
@for (nodes of [data()]; track nodes) {
  <kendo-treeview [nodes]="nodes" textField="name" ...>...</kendo-treeview>
}
This works but is obviously undesirable (full teardown/rebuild on every data change, loss of internal state).