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Alloy (ALOY)

[ALOY-368] Widgets should reference controllers within their standalone structure when using createController

GitHub Issuen/a
TypeImprovement
PriorityMedium
StatusResolved
ResolutionFixed
Resolution Date2013-03-11T15:52:58.000+0000
Affected Version/sn/a
Fix Version/sAlloy 1.1.0, 2013 Sprint 04
ComponentsWidgets
Labelsruntime
ReporterBert Grantges
AssigneeUnknown
Created2012-11-06T17:54:30.000+0000
Updated2018-03-07T22:26:03.000+0000

Description

Since Widgets are supposed to act as standalone instances, how do I go about creating multiple view/controllers and referencing them appropriately through createController? Example: WIdgetA has two views widget.xml menu.xml WidgetA controller wants to create an instance of menu.xml using createController var m = Alloy.createController("menu", {some object}).getView() Expectation is the above should reference the widgets menu view/controller Actual result – alloy tries to find the controller within the base alloy/controllers folder

Comments

  1. Fokke Zandbergen 2012-11-11

    Agree 100%, or at least support using WPATH in a widget controller to explicitly reference to other controllers within the widget: 
       var row = Alloy.createController(WPATH('row'), arg).getView();
    I do see a WPATH implementation in the Alloy-generated widget.js: 
       function WPATH(s) {
       var index = s.lastIndexOf("/"), path = index === -1 ? "MyWidget/" + s : s.substring(0, index) + "/MyWidget/" + s.substring(index + 1);
       return path;
   }
    But using it results in: 
       alloy/controllers/MyWidget/row
    A workaround is to use: 
       var row = Alloy.createWidget('MyWidget', 'row', arg).getView();
    Or is this actually the (undocumented) way to do it? You might think so since createWidget supports a controller name as a second parameter.
  2. Tony Lukasavage 2013-03-11

    The was handled in ALOY-530. The Alloy creation functions, like createController(), should be accessed in widget's like this: 
       widget.createController('viewName', args);
    This will use the controllers contained within the widget. The same goes for the model and collection creation functions. createWidget() still references the global collection of widgets as it should.

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