Can you bind multiple views to the same model?

[SnidelyWhiplash]

I'm using Marionette, but it shouldn't make a difference as far as this question.

I have two views, a LoginView and a SignupView (both forms). They are shown at the same time, and instantiated with an empty User model, eg:

onRender: function () {
  var user = new User();
  this.login.show(new LoginView({model: user}));
  this.signup.show(new SignupView({model: user}));
}

each of those views is doing

initialize: function () {
  Backbone.Validation.bind(this);
}

but only the SignupView is seeing the validation effects. Is there a way to have the model validation affect both views, or am I going to have to send them each a separate Model instance?

Thanks for the awesome plugin!

[SomethingSexy]

I have done this in the past. Don't bind directly to the view but use the mixin on the model instead.

[SnidelyWhiplash]

Thanks for the reply. So then you just listen for the vaildated:* events on the model within the view directly..?

[SomethingSexy]

Yep, you can just have your view listenTo the validated events on the model, then wire up your UI interactions that way. We ended up need something a little bit more robust so we actual manually call the preValidation method on the model for what we are trying to validate (because we are doing real-time validation) and then we do whatever we need based on valid/invalid.

I might also suggest making some sort of view mixin so that you can mixin in that with any view you need to handle model validation.

[SnidelyWhiplash]

Sounds good, thanks for the rundown. For clarification on one point, I thought preValidate() didn't fire the events..? Does it even set _isValid on the model..? Going off memory for now, I can dive into the code to determine. Thanks!