Unity UIToolkit Runtime Binding Extension

BindingExtensions.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Reflection;
using UnityEngine.UIElements;

namespace UI
{
    public static class BindingExtensions
    {
        public static void Bind(this VisualElement element, object data)
        {
            element.BindValues(data);
            if (element.childCount == 0)
            {
                return;
            }

            foreach (var child in element.Children())
            {
                child.Bind(data);
            }
        }

        private static void BindValues(this VisualElement element, object data)
        {
            if (element is Label label && label.bindingPath != null)
            {
                foreach (var (name, value) in data.Values())
                {
                    if (label.bindingPath.Equals(name))
                    {
                        label.text = (string) value;
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        private static IEnumerable<Tuple<string, object>> Values(this object data)
        {
            foreach (var fieldInfo in data.GetType().GetFields(BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Instance))
            {
                yield return Tuple.Create(fieldInfo.Name, fieldInfo.GetValue(data));
            }
        }
    }
}

Hey @FornostAD!
The approach in this gist just writes all the values from an object once into a VisualElement.
We no longer use this approach and use UniRx instead together with the following bits:

• https://gist.github.com/scho/6ec3f30653119b3856b1a9edfd5b0b7b
• https://gist.github.com/scho/d737ec33aa3b5b1e7fc8e04990d866d2