Wsrtjtyk

I'm trying to re-render a specific component when another component is clicked. When the user clicks the particular button component, a variable in sessionStorage changes, which is used by another component to display data. Upon click I want that specific component to re-render itself. I have seen Ember Re-render component and Ember Rerendering component within component, but they don't seem to be working in my case. Here are my files:

templates/components/buttons/button-cancel.hbs

{{#each-in metaData as |module definition|}}

  {{#if (eq definition.name "cancel_button") }}

  <button class={{definition.css_class}} {{action "changeToAccounts"}}> Accounts </button>

  {{/if}}

{{/each-in}}

{{yield}}

components/buttons/button-cancel.js

import Component from '@ember/component';

import MD from "../../utils/metadata";



export default Component.extend({

  init: function() {

    this._super(...arguments);

    this.metaData = MD.create().getMetaViewStuff("Leads", "record", "buttons");

    //    console.log(this.metaData);

  },

  actions: {

    changeToAccounts: function() {

      sessionStorage.setItem('module', "Accounts");

    }

  }



});

templates/components/panels/list-panel.hbs

{{buttons/button-save}} <!--This button is same as button-cancel-->

{{buttons/button-cancel}}

{{field-list-headers}}

{{yield}}

components/field-list-headers (the component that needs re-rendering)

import Component from '@ember/component';

import MD from "../utils/metadata"



export default Component.extend({

  init: function(){

    this._super(...arguments);

    this.metaData = MD.create().getMetaViewStuff(sessionStorage.getItem('module'), "list", "panels")

  }

});

function getMetaViewStuff

  getMetaViewStuff: function(module, submodule, item, i18n) {

    if (this.modules[module]["views"][submodule]["meta"] !== undefined && this.modules[module]["views"][submodule]["meta"][item] !== undefined) {

      let meta = this.modules[module]["views"][submodule]["meta"][item];

      return meta;

    }

    return false;

  }

My recommendation would be to share the same property via a service and to use this service to update local storage and cache the value on said service. I've provided an example that uses a service to share a value amongst two components (I couldn't use local storage in the twiddle).

So let's assume we want to show a list of programming languages either as a table or as an ordered list. We have two components, the reusable mode-changer button for toggling the mode and the programming-languages component for actually rendering the list, who both interact with the shared mode-service.:

export default Ember.Service.extend({

  init(){

    this._super(...arguments);

    //actually read from local storage here and set default on null

    this.set('mode', 'list');

  },

  toggleMode(){

    let newValue = this.get('mode') === 'list' ? 'table' : 'list';

    //actually store to local storage here before caching on the service

    this.set('mode', newValue);  

  }

});

Imagine this template showing both components:

{{programming-languages languages=languages}}

{{mode-changer}}

The mode-changer injects the mode-service, with which it derives the logical button text and toggle the mode-service's mode property via toggleMode:

export default Ember.Component.extend({

  modeService: inject(),

  buttonText: computed('modeService.mode', function(){

    let mode = this.get('modeService.mode');

    return mode === 'list' ? "Change to table" : "Change to list";

  }),

  actions: {

    toggleMode(){

      let modeService = this.get('modeService');

      modeService.toggleMode();

    }

  }

});

component of mode-changer:

<button onclick={{action 'toggleMode'}}>{{buttonText}}</button>

The programming-languages component bases it's rendering mode off of modeService.mode via a computed property:

export default Ember.Component.extend({

  modeService: inject(),

  renderList: computed('modeService.mode', function(){

    let mode = this.get('modeService.mode');

    return mode === 'list';

  })

});

so that changes to the modeService.mode will cause the computed property to invalidate and trigger a render of the component.

{{#if renderList}}

    <ol>

  {{#each languages as |language|}}

    <li>{{language}}</li>

  {{/each}}

  </ol>

{{else}}

  <table>

    <th>Language</th>

      {{#each languages as |language|}}

      <tr>{{language}}</tr>

    {{/each}}

  </table>

{{/if}}

In Ember, service's are singletons so such sharing is appropriate in many cases. To me, this is much better than any other solution that actually stores/retrieves references to the component itself and invokes its render function.