Bidirectional binding with conversion

[Tom Schindl]

Am 09.12.11 12:25, schrieb Daniel Zwolenski:
> Nice idea, I can see it being useful. 
> 
> Does it need to be limited to bidirectional bindings? Any reason unidirectional bindings cant use a converter too?
> 

Correct I don't see a reason for that.

> I wonder if we need a way to detect the failed parsing/formatting? For example if we were converting a TextField.textProperty to a Number (or Date) and it couldn't be parsed, I reckon I'd want to highlight the field as an error. Maybe this could be done with a custom formatter, is that the best way though?

Yes we should. Why don't we allow the method to return a type:

public static ValueBinding bindBidirectional(Property<String>
stringProperty, Property<?> otherProperty, Format format)

public ValueBinding bindBidirectional(Property<?> other, Format format)

class Binding {
  ObjectProperty<Status> status;

  public dispose() {

  }

}

We can then:
a) Observe the status of the binding
b) remove the need of the unbind method because we can dispose the
   binding

Tom

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