spring-webflow-2.0.xsd schema changes for binder

[spsaran]

Hi,

Let say I have 10 variable and 2 are required field. When I use the binder I have to explicitly bind all 10 variable. Instead can we have bindAll=true attribute in binder. By default it may false. This will avoid to manual binding!

Something like this,
<binder bindAll="true">
<binding property="variable1" required="true"/>
<binding property="variable2" required="true"/>
</binder>

This should be bind all form fields instead only two. Any thoughts!!

Thanks.

[denis_k]

Could you specify more precisely what your question is. If you want to bind 8 variables and let 2 unbind then I think you don’t have many choices: just bind 8 of them with binder tag like this:

<binder>
    <binding property="prop1" required="true"/>
    <binding property="prop2" required="false"/>
    ...
    <binding property="prop8"/>
</binder>

[spsaran]

Well, I am lazy and I want the binder should take care to bind all the variable (which is mapped in jsp) without explicitly binding.

If you want to add/delete more attributes, you have to do in model object and jsp and no need to touch flow xml. Is it make sense!

[denis_k]

If you want to bind all model's variables, what prevents you from specifying your model in 'model' attribute like this

<var name="myModel" class="your.model.ClassName"/>
...
<view-state id="myView" model="myModel">
...
</view-state>

It will bind all properties of 'myModel' into your view.

[Cidolfas]

I think the point is that it is far easier to specify a small number of fields to bind than to specify a small number of fields to not bind.