VaSelect with options from API

[beard7]

I'm binding the options of VaSelect to data returned from an API, which is fine, and I can link server filtering to the VaSelect search option to narrow the options. The data is an array of objects, so I'm using the textBy and valueBy options.

The problem I've got is when the model value of the VaSelect doesn't exist in the initial options (which is generally an empty array), I get a warning: [VaSelect]: can not find option in options list ([]) by provided value (...)

Any suggestions on how best to handle this? I can try pre-fetching the object matching the model value, b ut obviously that's an async operation and I can't figure out how to get the things to work.