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The ChangeApplier is a core (though still rapidly developing - first introduced in the 1.0 release) part of Fluid's architecture, which handles the function of data binding and coordinates model updates in general. Some notes are present at Notes on the ChangeApplier - the ChangeApplier was formerly (and still is, in its counterpart in the server-side RSF framework) known as the DARApplier, after the DataAlterationRequest structure which appears in its event APIs.

As well as being based on Fluid's model-directed thinking, the ChangeApplier is also implemented in terms of Fluid's Event System, which you should be familiar with before using the ChangeApplier.

Thinking behind the ChangeApplier

The ChangeApplier is a natural outgrowth of Fluid's focus on (transparent) model-directed programming - see our page on Component Model Interactions and API. The core contract is that a model should be "fully transparent" - meaning, that it consists of standard POJOs and is available for inspection by reading, using standard language constructs, at all times. For example, if model is a Javascript variable holding the overall model, accessing a field within the model is as simple as writing a standard Javascript expression model.field1.subfield2 etc.