Data Binding - grails/grails-core GitHub Wiki
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
Wish List
- Data binding for domain objects with assignable ids. (Replacing of ID should work. Deletion of ID should return an error.)