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| Re: [databinding] bind to a null EReference [message #422369 is a reply to message #422365] |
Wed, 03 September 2008 12:15   |
 Ed Merks
Messages: 33140
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Lusso,
It seems like a relatively common type of situation. Unfortunately my
data binding skills are close to zero, so I'm hoping Tom or someone else
will see your question, which is more of a general data binding question
than a specific-EMF one, and provide some guidance...
Luca Lusso wrote:
> Hi, I have a model object with a optional reference to an other model
> object. Sometimes this reference is NULL because it's optional. In my
> GUI what I want to do is bind some attribute of the optional reference
> to text field. Is possible to use databinding in such a way that, when
> user fill those fields, the referenced object will be created, filled
> with correct data and attached to parent model object? I think I have
> to write custom code to do so, and I'm looking for suggestion.
>
> Thanks
>
> Lusso Luca
Ed Merks
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| Re: [databinding] bind to a null EReference [message #422371 is a reply to message #422369] |
Wed, 03 September 2008 12:47 |
 Thomas Schindl
Messages: 6651
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Hi Lusso,
Let's give it a try. Does your model look like this?
Person
+ address: Address
+ street: String
And you want to bind address.street? But it is possible that address is
null and you expect that if someone is entering a text in the TextField
a new Address-instance is created and its street value is filled?
If that's the case then no sorry this is *not possible* because
Databinding has no idea how to create the Address-Instance (it might not
even know/has access to the implementation-class because EMF is only
presenting the interface from the out side and OSGi is hidding the
implementation).
Still I think you can work around this using a trick like this:
Person
+ address: Address
+ street: String
+ addressStreet: String (volatile transient derived feature)
+ ... => other attributes of the none mandatory address-attributes
The trick shown here is a very cool one and I used it a e.g. for the
following problem.
Person
+ addresses: EList<Address>
+ homeAddress: Address (volatile transient derived feature)
+ billingAddress: Address (volatile transient derived feature)
So EMF makes this fairly easy but even with any other Model-Technology ;-)
Maybe I should write a small example for the Databinding-Snippet pages
using Standard Beans (or anyone else eager on doing so).
Tom
Ed Merks schrieb:
> Lusso,
>
> It seems like a relatively common type of situation. Unfortunately my
> data binding skills are close to zero, so I'm hoping Tom or someone else
> will see your question, which is more of a general data binding question
> than a specific-EMF one, and provide some guidance...
>
>
> Luca Lusso wrote:
>> Hi, I have a model object with a optional reference to an other model
>> object. Sometimes this reference is NULL because it's optional. In my
>> GUI what I want to do is bind some attribute of the optional reference
>> to text field. Is possible to use databinding in such a way that, when
>> user fill those fields, the referenced object will be created, filled
>> with correct data and attached to parent model object? I think I have
>> to write custom code to do so, and I'm looking for suggestion.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Lusso Luca
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