Blazor, event on model change in editform

Question

I've got a table with controls bound to a model, and I need to call a function when some of these controls' values change. (Recalculating totals and taxes)

The table is in an edit form, and the controls are bound to the model, so I cannot use the onchange event in the controls.

What I've tried:

• use the SetParametersAsync or OnParametersSetAsync functions, however it only gets triggered when the model is set the first time, not on each change of a property in the model as I would expect.

• tried to use the set accessor of the model, however doing this and running in debug the browser crashes and in my debug console I get a access violation error with no context:

  private Order order { get { return order; } set { order = value; CalculateTotals(); } }

The program '[11992] iisexpress.exe: Program Trace' has exited with code 0 (0x0). The program '[11992] iisexpress.exe' has exited with code -1073741819 (0xc0000005) 'Access violation'.

Anyone got any ideas?

Answer 1

You can do something like this:

 <EditForm EditContext="@EditContext">
    <DataAnnotationsValidator />

    <div class="form-group">
        <label for="amount">Amount: </label>
        <InputNumber Id="amount" Class="form-control" @bind- 
                                         Value="@Model.Amount"> 
        </InputNumber>
             <ValidationMessage For="@(() => Model.Amount)" />

    </div>
    <div class="form-group">
        <label for="items">Items: </label>
    <InputNumber Id="items" Class="form-control" @bind-Value="@Model.Items"> 
    </InputNumber>
        <ValidationMessage For="@(() => Model.Items)" />
    </div>

</EditForm>


@code
{
    private EditContext EditContext;
    private Order Model = new Order();


    protected override void OnInitialized()
    {
        EditContext = new EditContext(Model);
        EditContext.OnFieldChanged += EditContext_OnFieldChanged;

        base.OnInitialized();
    }

    private void EditContext_OnFieldChanged(object sender, 
                                                      FieldChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(e.FieldIdentifier.FieldName);

         if (EditContext.Validate())
         {
            // You can validate the EditContext here, and do necessary 
            calculation 
         }

    }

    }

Hope this helps...

Update:

I've never done it before, but let me suggest the following: Define your child component as follows:

ChildComponent.razor

<div class="form-group">
<label for="item">Item: </label>

 <select id="Item" class="form-control-sm" @bind="@Model.Item">
    @foreach (var item in items)
    {
        <option value="@item">@item</option>

    }
</select>

<ValidationMessage For="@(() => Model.Item)" />

</div>

@code
{

   [Parameter]
   public Order Model { get; set; }
}

In the parent component, insert the following within the EditForm

Now, you can perform various operations in the child component, as if its code is within the EditForm.

Note: I hope this work... never done it before, and of course I did not execute this code...

Note: You have to provide a list of items here, either pass it from the parent component as a Component Parameter or create a list of items in the the child component, retrieve from database, etc.