Use angular binding with kendo grid templates - angularjs

Question

I use kendo ui grid with angular. I want the grid to be updated with every change in the array (of any property). Meaning, if my data is:
this.rowData = [{ id: "1", name: "A", age: "16" }, { id: "2", name: "B", age: "42" }];
and the age is changed from 16 to 17 I want the grid to be updated automatically.
I understand that I can use ObservableArray and when updating the observable the grid will be updated but I don't want the entire application to know the observable. I want to be able to update the original rowData and affect the grid. Any suggestions of how I do that?
I thought that adding a template to a row or a specific column with angular binding will help but it didn't, here is an example of it:
function Controller(GridConstants) {
this.rowData = [{ id: "1", name: "A", age: "16" }, { id: "2", name: "B", age: "42" }];
this.gridDataSource = new kendo.data.DataSource({
data: new kendo.data.ObservableArray(this.rowData),
schema: {
model: { id: "id" }
}
});
this.gridOptions = {
dataSource: this.gridDataSource,
selectable: "row",
columns: [
{
field: "name",
title: "Name"
},
{
field: "age",
title: "Age",
template: "<label>{{dataItem.age}}</label>"
}
],
selectable: "single"
};
}

Answer 1

You can try ng-bind instead:
template: "<label ng-bind='dataItem.age'></label>"

Answer 2

var rowDataObservable = new kendo.data.ObservableArray(this.rowData);
...
data: rowDataObservable,
...
//and you need work with rowDataObservable, this will work
rowDataObservable[0].age = 17;