In polymer.js how to pass argument to a function? - polymer

In polymer.js, I want to bind both function and some parameters to a click event, like this:
<template repeat="{{i in List}}">
<button on-click="{{click-func(i)}}">
</template>
With click-func defined below:
click-func: function(i){
do something;
}
How to make the above code work?
Thanks!

one way to do it is assign the value you wish to send as a generic attribute and pick it up using the sender value sent with the click / tap event.
<template repeat="{{i in List}}">
<button on-click="{{click-func}}" dataItem="{{i}}">
</template>
function
click-func: function(event, detail, sender){
var dataItem = sender.attributes.dataItem.value;
// do something with dataItem;
}
edit: kind of confused title says JS but tag says dart. this answer is good for polymer JS.

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Polymer 1.0 dom-repeat with nested elements

I have a question regarding dom-repeat. I have two different elements like:
<host-element>
<item-element></item-element>
<item-element></item-element>
</host-element>
each item-element has an array, in which items can be added at runtime. When the item-element
is attached is fires an event, so that the host-element knows about the item-element within its content and adds each
item-element to an array of item-elements to a property. To access the item-element
item arrays you could bind to the property of the host-element like:
<host-element items="{{itemElements}}">
<item-element></item-element>
<item-element></item-element>
</host-element>
to print the content of the itemElements iterate over it with dom-repeat
<template is="dom-repeat" items="{{itemElements}}">
<ul>
<template is="dom-repeat" items="{{item.values}}" as="value">
<li>[[value]]</li>
</template>
<ul>
</template>
so far everything works as expected. When the item-element change the dom-repeat
should redraw itself, but it is not happening. The documentation states you could uses dom-repeat.observe or dom-repeat.render
to update the dom-repeat element. Using dom-repeat.render manually works and could be
run automatically, but is not ideal. Therefor I am trying to find a solution with dom-repeat.observe with no luck so far.
<template is="dom-repeat" items="{{itemElements}}" observe="values.splice">
<ul>
<template is="dom-repeat" items="{{item.values}}" as="value" observe="????">
<li>[[value]]</li>
</template>
<ul>
</template>
I have pushed my source to github at source and a live demo
Thanks for your help.
Sandro
I have found a hack to get it to work. I need to alter the array holding all items.
The function _itemElementChanged is called every time a item-element is changed.
_itemElementChanged: function(){
// the check is needed if this function is run multiple times in the same tick it would erase the whole array
if (this.items.length > 0){
var itemsTmp = this.items;
this.items = [];
this.async(function () {
this.self.items = this.items;
}.bind({items: itemsTmp, self: this}));
}
}
The check for of this.items.length > 0 is need incase _itemElementChanged is called twice
before the async function runs. In that case this.items would end up empty.
This is by fare not a satisfying solution, but its the only working on I found so far.. I have updated the source to include the solution.

Data binding between published properties of two custom elements inside an auto binding template - Polymer 1.0

Problem: I have an auto binding template in my main index.html page. Inside the template I am using two of my custom elements. One element is the producer of some data and the other one is the consumer of that data. These custom elements expose published/declared properties for each other to use and bind to. I was able to do that in Polymer 0.5 fairly easily (an example shown below). How do I do the same in Polymer 1.0?
How I used to do in Polymer 0.5?
In Polymer 0.5 I used to data bind between published properties of two custom elements using curly brace syntax and then inside it used the auto node finding concept to directly bind to other element's published property. An example shown below,
<template is="auto-binding">
<my-navigation selectedLabel="Home" id="my_navigation"></my-navigation>
<my-scaffold toolbartitle="{{ $.my_navigation.selectedLabel }}" id="my_scaffold"></my-scaffold>
</template>
I tried something similar in Polymer 1.0 as shown in the example below
<template is="dom-bind">
<my-navigation selectedLabel="Home" id="my_navigation"></my-navigation>
<my-scaffold toolbartitle="{{ $.my_navigation.selectedLabel }}" id="my_scaffold"></my-scaffold>
</template>
But it throws an error:-
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property '$' of undefined
You can't do $.* bindings inside the template in Polymer 1.0. Instead, either refactor or use computed functions.
In your situation, since selectedLabel and toolbartitle shares the same value, it is much better to simply bind them to the same property.
Also, attribute names that are declaratively passed in (through the element tag) need to be serialized, so selectedLabel becomes selected-label.
<body>
...
<template id="tpl" is="dom-bind">
<my-navigation selected-label="{{myLabel}}" id="my_navigation"></my-navigation>
<my-scaffold toolbartitle="{{myLabel}}" id="my_scaffold"></my-scaffold>
</template>
<script>
...
window.addEventListener("WebComponentsReady", function (e) {
document.querySelector("#tpl").myLabel = "Home";
...
});
...
</script>
</body>
There is probably a better way to do that, but you can try this:
<body>
<template id="app" is="dom-bind">
<my-navigation selectedLabel="Home" id="my_navigation"></my-navigation>
<my-scaffold toolbartitle="{{ selectedLabel }}" id="my_scaffold"></my-scaffold>
</template>
<script>
var app = document.querySelector('#app');
app.addEventListener('template-bound', function () {
console.log('Our app is ready to rock!');
});
window.addEventListener('WebComponentsReady', function () {
document.querySelector('body').removeAttribute('unresolved');
var my-navigation = document.querySelector('my-navigation');
// This will add the variable to the 'app' context (template)
app.selectedLabel = my-navigation.selectedLabel;
});
</script>
</body>

Remove child element's attribute from Polymer js

I've a custom element which, among other things, has a core-input and a paper button in it.
When the element is created, the input is disabled, and I want to enable it when I tap the button.
I've tried several ways and can't access the input's attribute.
<paper-input-decorator label="Nombre de usuario" floatingLabel>
<input id="usernameinput" value="{{UserName}}" is="core-input" disabled />
</paper-input-decorator>
<paper-button raised id="edprobutton" on-tap="{{edbutTapped}}">EDITAR</paper-button>
What should I write in
edbutTapped: function () {
},
EDIT
So, I've learned that the problem was that my username input element was inside a repeat template, and that's bad for what I was trying to do. Now I'm trying to bind a single json object to my element, with no luck so far.
What I have right now:
In my Index page:
<profile-page id="profpage" isProfile="true" entity="{{profEntity}}"></profile-page>
<script>
$(document).ready(function () {
var maintemplate = document.querySelector('#fulltemplate');
$.getJSON('api/userProfile.json', function (data) {
var jsonString = JSON.stringify(data);
alert(jsonString);
maintemplate.profEntity = jsonString;
});
}
</script>
In my element's page:
<polymer-element name="profile-page" attributes="isprofile entity">
<template>
<style>
[...]
</style>
<div flex vertical layout>
<core-label class="namepro">{{entity.Name}}</core-label>
<core-label class="subpro">{{entity.CompanyPosition}}</core-label>
<core-label class="subpro">{{entity.OrgUnitName}}</core-label>
</div>
</template>
</polymer-element>
And my JSON looks like this:
{"Name": "Sara Alvarez","CompanyPosition": "Desarrollo","OrgUnitName": "N-Adviser"}
I'm asuming I need to "update" my element somehow after changing its entity attribute?
Try the following
<script>
Polymer({
edbutTapped: function () {
this.$.usernameinput.disabled = false;
}
});
</script>
The this.$ allows you to access controls defined in an elements and the usernameinput is the id you assigned to the input.
This can go below the closing tag of the element you are defining.
'disabled' is conditional-attribute.
So this will be the correct use of it:
<input id="usernameinput" value="{{UserName}}" is="core-input" disabled?="{{isDisabled}}" />
In the prototype:
//first disable the field, can be done in ready callback:
ready: function () {
this.isDisabled = 'true';
}
//set idDisabled to 'false' i.e. enable the input
edbutTapped: function () {
this.isDisabled = 'false';
},
OK this is going to be a long answer (hence why I am not entering this as an edit of my original answer). I've just done something which is functionally the same.
The first thing is this code;
$.getJSON('api/userProfile.json', function (data) {
var jsonString = JSON.stringify(data);
alert(jsonString);
maintemplate.profEntity = jsonString;
});
Polymer has a control called core-ajax - this as it's name suggests makes an ajax call. The other really nice thing is that it can be made to execute when the URL changes. This is the code from the project I've got.
<core-ajax id="ajax"
auto=true
method="POST"
url="/RoutingMapHandler.php?Command=retrieve&Id=all"
response="{{response}}"
handleas="json"
on-core-error="{{handleError}}"
on-core-response="{{handleResponse}}">
</core-ajax>
The auto is the bit which tells it to fire when the URL changes. The description of auto from the polymer documentation is as follows;
With auto set to true, the element performs a request whenever its
url, params or body properties are changed.
you don't need the on-core-response but the on-core-error might be more useful. For my code response contains the JSON returned.
So for your code - it would be something like this
<core-ajax id="ajax"
auto=true
method="POST"
url="/api/userProfile.json"
response="{{jsonString}}"
handleas="json"
on-core-error="{{handleError}}" >
</core-ajax>
Now we have the data coming into your project we need to handle this. This is done by making use of Polymer's data-binding.
Lets detour to the element you are creating. Cannot see anything wrong with the following line.
<polymer-element name="profile-page" attributes="isprofile entity">
We have an element called 'profile-page' with two properties 'isprofile' and 'entity'.
Only because my Javascript leaves a bit to be desired I would pass each property as a seperate entity making that line
<polymer-element name="profile-page" attributes="isprofile name companyposition OrgUnitName">
Then at the bottom of your element define a script tag
<script>
Polymer({
name: "",
companyposition: "",
OrgUnitName: ""
});
</script>
Now back to the calling (profile-page). The following code (from my project) has the following;
<template repeat="{{m in response.data}}">
<map-list-element mapname="{{m.mapName}}" recordid="{{m.Id}}" on-show-settings="{{showSettings}}">
</map-list-element>
</template>
Here we repeat the following each element. In your case you only have one entry and it is stored in jsonString so your template is something like this
<template repeat="{{u in jsonString}}">
<profile-page name="{{u.name}} companyposition="{{u.companyposition}}" OrgUnitName="{{u.OrgUnitName}}">
</profile-page>
</template>
Now we get to the issue you have. Return to your profie-page element. Nothing wrong with the line
on-tap="{{edbutTapped}}"
This calls a function called edbutTapped. Taking the code I gave you earlier
<script>
Polymer({
edbutTapped: function () {
this.$.usernameinput.disabled = false;
}
});
</script>
The only thing to change here is add the following code
created: function() {
this.$.usernameinput.disabled = true;
},
This is inserted after the Polymer({ line. I cannot see in your revised code where the usernameinput is defined but I am assuming you have not posted it and it is defined in the element.
And you should be working, but remember to keep your case consistent and to be honest I've not been - certain parts of Polymer are case sensitive - that catches me out all the time :)

How can i bind a dynamic function within a polymer component?

As far as my Polymer knowledge goes I can
bind a function using the "on-*" syntax to a webcomponent method
bind a function available in the global window namespace using vanilla html js binding (using onClick="...")
But I want to bind a function (provided as property of datamodel objects) to the webcomponent template.
One sidenote : Moving the datamodel objects to the global javascript namespace (i.e. window.*) is not an option.
The example below does'nt work but reflects exactly my use case :
...
Polymer('x-foo', {
items : [
...,
{
label : "ExampleCommand",
action : function() {
// do something
}
}
...
]
})
...
<template>
<template repeat="{{item in items}}">
<paper-button onClick="{{item.action}}">
{{item.label}});
</paper-button>
</template>
</template>
...
one more question if someone has an idea how to solve the question above) : how can i provide additional arguments to function ?
Any help is appreciated :-)
I had to ask the team about this because it's kinda confusing. Declarative event "bindings" are not the same thing as a Polymer expression. Unfortunately, both event bindings and Polymer expressions use the {{ }} syntax, which implies they work the same. They don't. The scope of event bindings is the element itself, whereas as an expression is scoped to the model for the template instance.
In Polymer 0.8, I believe the syntax has changed, so event bindings no longer use {{ }}. Hopefully that will clear it up a bit.
To achieve the effect you want, you can define a method on the element, which looks at the event target, grabs its model, and calls the function you've defined.
<polymer-element name="x-foo">
<template>
<template repeat="{{items}}">
<button on-click="{{doAction}}">{{label}}</button>
</template>
</template>
<script>
Polymer({
items: [
{
label: 'ExampleCommand',
action: function() {
alert('hello world');
}
},
{
label: 'AnotherCommand',
action: function() {
alert('another command');
}
}
],
doAction: function(e) {
e.target.templateInstance.model.action();
}
});
</script>
</polymer-element>
Here's the example running on jsbin

Access core-ajax response from within nested component?

I have a core-ajax element like so:
<core-ajax id="ds" auto url="address/to/data.json" response="{{data}}"></core-ajax>
Then a list element like so:
<my-items alarms="{{data}}"></my-items>
Which iterates through the data and displays it in another template:
<template repeat="{{item in items}}">
<my-item alarm="{{item}}"></my-item>
</template>
My question is, from within "my-item", how can I access the original {{data}}? For instance, if I wanted to get a count of the total items in a javascript function?
You need to pass that information into <my-item>.
If <my-item> also published a data property, you could pass it like this:
<template repeat="{{alarm in alarms}}">
<my-item alarm="{{alarm}}" data="{{alarms}}"></my-item>
</template>
or just the stats you need:
<my-item alarm="{{alarm}}" length="{{alarms.length}}"></my-item>
Polymer('my-item', {
dataChanged: function (e) {
console.log(this.data);
}
});
that should give you the data you need