bindMapper

Goals

For data-oriented display and input forms, right now there are two choices within the Mapper framework: CRUDify and custom snippets.

CRUDify provides a lot out of the box and can then be tweaked in a few places. But I’ve found it to be best for Prototyping and a few administrative functions where a precise design is not important and workflows are simple. Then there are custom snippets. They allow every conceivable HTML to be produced, and have no dependence on the Mapper library themselves. I used this approach a lot, but ended up with a lot of boilerplate code; e.g. if you add a field to a Mapper class, you have to also add it in the edit and view template, and in the bind statements in each Snippet.