### Bug report

Ticket ID 1410772

### Reproduction of the problem

Calling dataSource.query with an empty object before the grid is initialized throws an error.

[https://dojo.telerik.com/OzasiZug/5](https://dojo.telerik.com/OzasiZug/5)

``` 
         ...
          var dataSource = new kendo.data.DataSource({
            type: "odata",
            transport: {
              read: "https://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/service/Northwind.svc/Customers"
            },
            pageSize: 5
          });

          dataSource.query({});


          var grid = $("#grid").kendoGrid({
            dataSource: dataSource,
          ...
```

### Current behavior

An error is thrown.

### Expected/desired behavior

No error should be thrown


### Environment

* **Kendo UI version:** 2019.2.514
* **jQuery version:** 1.12