ManagedObject: "objectBindings" support in XML view / fragment definitions

URL (minimal example if possible)

https://jsbin.com/hopizef/edit?html,js,output

Given

<MyControl objectBindings="{
  myModel: { path: '/someObject' },  
  myAnotherModel: { path: '/objectFromAnotherModel' }
}" />

What is the expected result?

ManagedObject calls bindObject according to the API contract for each key without any issues. https://github.com/SAP/openui5/blob/ca82db0229de26dec2fc554353838ad8e6fc5401/src/sap.ui.core/src/sap/ui/base/ManagedObject.js#L1150-L1153

What happens instead?

The only place in the XMlTemplateProcessor, where objectBindings is handled, is this one: https://github.com/SAP/openui5/blob/ca82db0229de26dec2fc554353838ad8e6fc5401/src/sap.ui.core/src/sap/ui/core/XMLTemplateProcessor.js#L803-L809 But that results in the following objectBindings object:

{
  undefined: {
    myAnotherModel: { path: "/objectFromAnotherModel" },
    myModel: { path: "/someObject" }
  }
}

which is passed to ManagedObject settings: https://github.com/SAP/openui5/blob/ca82db0229de26dec2fc554353838ad8e6fc5401/src/sap.ui.core/src/sap/ui/base/ManagedObject.js#L1142-L1155

And since the key is undefined, the browser throws an uncaught TypeError.

Any other information? (attach screenshot if possible)

After reading https://github.com/SAP/openui5/issues/544, I thought objectBindings is supported at least in fragments but there it fails too.

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Also the description of objectBindings in the API reference …

objectBindings : object A map of binding paths keyed by the corresponding model name. Each entry with key k in this object has the same effect as a call this.bindObject(objectBindings[k], k);.

… is a bit weird to me since bindObject awaits an object as the only argument. But according to the description above, this.bindObject(path, modelName) will be called. In the real code, on the other hand, it’s this.bindObject(bindingInfo) again.^src

[flovogt]

Hello @boghyon ,

Thank you for sharing your enhancement proposal. I’ve created an internal incident 2080221780. The status of the issue will be updated here in GitHub.

Regards, Florian

[flovogt]

Hi @boghyon, we’ve discussed your enhancement proposal and agreed on implementing it. The BLI is CPOUI5FRAMEWORK-122. This issue will be updated when the BLI is implemented. Best Regards, Florian