Comments on: Model Adapters - A binding pattern using an Adapter

By: Barry Jones

Barry Jones — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:07:31 +0000

Brilliant, just what I needed. I had been jumping through all sorts of hoops to get the same result.
Thanks.

By: Tony Ngo

Tony Ngo — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:10:02 +0000

Thank you! Your article was very helpful!

By: Dan Nelson

Dan Nelson — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:57:17 +0000

Great post! This will come in handy.

By: Marc

Marc — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:40:01 +0000

I’ve just accidentally deleted a comment I meant to click the “post” button on.

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From: Ariel Jakobovits

Isn’t this what a mx.collections.ListCollectionView allows you to do?
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I’m embarrassed to say I didn’t know about ListCollectionView until you pointed it out, but it does appear to solve the problem specifically with sorting & filtering collections. I’d have to try it out to see if it actually works the same or not. But assuming it works how I think it may, I’d probably use it as part of the model adapter I described above.

But the broader topic of a model adapter is still an important one. Doing things like the following are all covered by the pattern and not ListCollectionView:

- Summarize data for different views.
- Expose a completely different interface of your data.
- Combine multiple sources of items into a single list.
- Expose non-list based data

By: shaun

shaun — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:22:43 +0000

very nice examples, thanks for taking the time to put this together.

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:33:25 +0000

Glad you like it Young.

I really must apologize for it taking so long, it’s amazing how easy it is to procrastinate around doing any sort of work.

By: Young

Young — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:28:05 +0000

I’ve been waiting for this blog. Good as expected!!!

Thanks,