Binding true / false to radio buttons in Knockout

Question

In my view model I have a IsMale value that has the value true or false.

In my UI I wish to bind it to the following radio buttons:

<label>Male
   <input type="radio" name="IsMale" value="true" data-bind="checked:IsMale"/>
</label> 
<label>Female
   <input type="radio" name="IsMale" value="false" data-bind="checked:IsMale"/>
</label>

The problem I think is checked expects a string "true" / "false". So my question is, how can I get this 2-way binding w/ this UI and model?

Answer 1

This works for me:

http://jsfiddle.net/zrBuL/291/

<label>Male
   <input type="radio" name="IsMale" value="1" data-bind="checked:IsMale"/>
</label> 
<label>Female
   <input type="radio" name="IsMale" value="0" data-bind="checked:IsMale"/>
</label>

Answer 2

After doing lot of research for older version of knockout prior to 3.0 there are possibly two best options

Create a knockout extender like

ko.extenders["booleanValue"] = function (target) {
    target.formattedValue = ko.computed({
        read: function () {
            if (target() === true) return "True";
            else if (target() === false) return "False";
        },
        write: function (newValue) {
            if (newValue) {
                if (newValue === "False") target(false);
                else if (newValue === "True") target(true);
            }
        }
    });

    target.formattedValue(target());
    return target;
};

To use the extender on your model, you’d do something like the following:

function Order() {
  this.wantsFries= ko.observable(false).extend({ booleanValue: null });
}

<span>Do you want fries with that?</span>
<label>
  <input type="radio" name="question" value="True"
             data-bind="value: wantsFries.formattedValue" /> Yes
</label>
<label>
  <input type="radio" name="question" value="False"
             data-bind="value: wantsFries.formattedValue" /> No
</label>

source:http://www.timlabonne.com/2013/02/building-a-knockout-js-extender-for-boolean-values/