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Andrew
Andrew

Reputation: 1013

EmberRoute.controller returning undefined

I am running ember 1.6.0. The docs say that since 1.6.0 there has been a property on Ember Route objects which contains the controller defined for that route. How ever when I call that property, I get undefined.

App.PhotosRoute = App.LibraryRoute.extend({
  model: function () {
    //blah
  },

  afterModel: function () {
    this.controller     // => undefined
    var _this = this

    App.store.find('batch').then(function (batches) {
      if (batches.content.length) {
        //unrelated note: _this returns "ReferenceError: _this is not defined" here which really confuses me
      }
    });
  }
});

Obviously i could do something terrible like App.container.lookup to get the controller here but I'm really wondering why I can't just call the controller property.

My two guesses: a) this property is set at some point afterModel runs b) the fact that my route inherits from a route other than EmberRoute is causing some problem

Also, as an aside, if anyone could school me up on some javascript basics as to why the variable "_this" I'm defining is not available in the context of my promise return it would also be appreciated

Upvotes: 0

Views: 314

Answers (1)

Jakeii
Jakeii

Reputation: 1273

afterModel is called before setupController, so the controller is not set yet, perhaps move your code there, remember to call this._super(model, controller);.

And as always with ember use the getters and setters.

Upvotes: 2

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