Data Binding

Overview

Grails 2.3 will include a new and improved data binding mechanism to replace the current implementation. This page is a placeholder for relevant discussion/planning.

High Level Goals For The New Data Binding System

• Support A Super-Set Of The Binding Capabilities Of The Current System
• Be Backward Compatible From The Application/Plugin Code Point Of View
• Be Performant
• Provide Improved Flexibility And Configurability
• Be A Simpler And Cleaner Implementation
• Native support for binding JSON and XML which does not require a Map intermediary
• Binding event system

Some Relevant JIRAs

• GRAILS-5582
• GRAILS-6401
• GRAILS-6480
• GRAILS-6547
• GRAILS-8957
• GRAILS-8991
• GRAILS-9220

Wish List

• Data binding for domain objects with assignable ids. (Replacing of ID should work. Deletion of ID should return an error.)