Cannot mix text and model attributes when binding with the movieList collection

[EtnaTraining]

Currently the info of the selected movie are retrieved from a global (singleton) model defined in alloy.js:

Alloy.Models.currentMovie = new Backbone.Model();

A more clean approach would use a local instance of the model in the detail.js controller. But currently it's not possible to bind a local model created directly via Backbone APIs, as far as I know, because the local model instance should exists BEFORE the XML view il loaded (and bound). This works fine if using Alloy model with a Movie.js file defined and using a Model tag into the XML:

<Model id="currentMovie" src="Movie" instance="true"/>

If I try to manually create a model instance in the detail.js controller with:

$.currentMovie = new Backbone.Model()

the binding in the XML view will fail:

<Label id="year" text="{currentMovie.year}"></Label>

trying to look for a global Alloy.Models.currentMovie anyway.

I suspect there is no way to bind a local Backbone model to a View attribute

[skypanther]

If you're trying to define the model in the controller, why can't you also set the label's text in the controller?

$.year.text = currentMovie.get('year') || '';

[EtnaTraining]

Sure, I can do that, but this is actually a demo app to showcase Alloy & Titanium and the point is to demonstrate how can we do data binding between view and models, as React Native will do. Using data binding is a cleaner option than updating view attributes from controller IMHO.