Monday, October 29, 2007 12:01 PM
kevinisom
SubSonic LoadFromPost
I think SubSonic is simply amazing. It has saved me so much time and effort of writing. One little trick that it's got is the LoadFromPost method the Models inherit from the SubSonic.AbstractRecord<T> class.
What LoadFromPost does is iterate over the the Request.Forms collection and matches the name of the form element with the corresponding property for your Model. So what that means is no more of this.
1: Product prod = new Product();
2: prod.Name = name.Text;
3: ....//More code setting the properties based on the form
4: prod.Save
So all you now have to do is this
1: Product prod = new Product
2: prod.LoadFromPost();//this loads up all the properties.
3: prod.Save();
Anything that saves time is a good thing, and nothing sucks more than writing tedious databinding code. Another advantage is that you don't need to use Server controls just plain html tags so you don't have to worry about ASP.Net adding all the extra naming container bits as well and that'll play nicely with any JavaScript or CSS that uses the id of an html tag.
Filed under: asp.net, SubSonic