ViewModelViewHost: Better to Allow Developers Bypass the Default Fallback Behavior That Resovles View With No Contract

[newbienewbie]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I have multiple different views that share the same ViewModel:

class ViewA : UserControl, IViewFor<WaitingFunVM>
{
}
Locator.CurrentMutable.Register( typeof(ViewA), typeof(IVewFor<WaitingFunVM>));



class ViewB: UserControl, IViewFor<WaitingFunVM>
{
}
 // specify a ContractB here
Locator.CurrentMutable.Register( typeof(ViewB), typeof(IVewFor<WaitingFunVM>),  ConstractB);  

// specify a ViewContract=ConstractB
<rxui:ViewModelViewHost x:Name="myview"  ViewContract="ConstractB" />

The current implementation of ViewModelViewHost falls back to resolve view with no contract if nothing found.

  private void ResolveViewForViewModel(object? viewModel, string? contract)
  {
        // ...
        var viewInstance = viewLocator.ResolveView(viewModel, contract) ?? viewLocator.ResolveView(viewModel);

In other words, it will render ViewA if nothing found even if I request a ViewContract=ContractB.

In my case, the ViewB is implemented by other plugin authors and is optional. What I want is:

• if user provide the ViewB implementation, it renders ViewB
• if user doesn't implement ViewB, it renders nothing (instead of ViewA)

Describe the solution you'd like

add a property of ContractFallbackByPass for the ViewModelHost so that we can bypass the fallback to viewLocator.ResolveView(viewModel);?

e.g. :

var viewInstance = viewLocator.ResolveView(viewModel, contract) ;
if(viewInstance == null && !this.ContractFallbackByPass) 
{
    viewInstance = viewLocator.ResolveView(viewModel);
}

Describe alternatives you've considered

make the private ResolveViewForViewModel protected virtual so that we can override it.

protected virtual ResolveViewForViewModel(object? viewModel, string? contract) {

}

Describe suggestions on how to achieve the feature

1. add a property of ContractFallbackByPass with a default value = false for all the ViewModelViewHost
2. or make the private ResolveViewForViewModel method protected virtual

Additional context

See discussion #3712

[glennawatson]

Probably do both is likely the best solution here.

Would you like to submit a pull request. If you are new to the process I can help out.

Be the fastest way to get it done

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