# Data-binding to non-Observable data object (e.g. Parse objects)

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**Category:** How-to Discussions\
**Created:** [November 5, 2015, 9:46pm UTC](https://forums.fusetools.com/t/data-binding-to-non-observable-data-object-e-g-parse-objects/6934 "2015-11-05T21:46:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Eivind](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forums.fusetools.com/eivind/32/575_2.png) [@Eivind](https://forums.fusetools.com/u/Eivind)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 9:46pm UTC](https://forums.fusetools.com/t/data-binding-to-non-observable-data-object-e-g-parse-objects/6934/1 "2015-11-05T21:46:01Z")

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Hi,

I’ve been trying to figure out how to get data-binding hooked up to Parse objects, but can’t find a way to do it. Have tried things like

```auto
var age = Observable(function() { theParseObject.get("age"); } );
age.addSubscriber( function() { theParseObject.set("age", age.value); }

```

but there are clearly some gotchas here.

One is that I’d need to nudge the observable to update when I’ve run fetch on `theParseObject`, and I can’t figure out how to do that.

Another is that `addSubscriber` seems to call the subscriber when you add it, thus running `set` on `theParseObject` with uninitialized data. in my case this overwrote valid data already in `theParseObject`.

I wonder if there’s some clean way to do this on the way and if I should just wait for that…

(thinking about how to handle arrays is giving me headaches)

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**Author:** ![COCPORN](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forums.fusetools.com/cocporn/32/576_2.png) [@COCPORN](https://forums.fusetools.com/u/COCPORN)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 10:35pm UTC](https://forums.fusetools.com/t/data-binding-to-non-observable-data-object-e-g-parse-objects/6934/2 "2015-11-05T22:35:45Z")

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Not sure if you’ve already looked at it, but this example contains Parse integration, arrays and all: [https://www.fusetools.com/community/examples/todoparseexample](https://www.fusetools.com/community/examples/todoparseexample)

I haven’t looked at Jake’s video yet, be he also has a fairly lengthy explanation here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th0V2p7EmXw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th0V2p7EmXw)

Shout out if you still have problems after looking at these resources and I’m sure we can help you get it to work.