Question

I cannot seem to specify custom controller inside of the Route.connectOutlets method.
The idea is I don’t want to create empty controllers for each view, well because I don’t believe that this is the right implementation in the first place.
In short if I take Gordon Hempton’s example and slightly update the code in the router items/item route from

item: Ember.Route.extend({
      route: '/:item_id',
      connectOutlets: function(router, context) {
        var item = router.getPath('itemsController.content').objectAt(context.item_id);
        router.get('itemController').set('content', item);
        router.get('applicationController').connectOutlet('item');
      }
    })

to

item: Ember.Route.extend({
route: '/:item_id',
connectOutlets: function (router, context) {
    var item = router.getPath('itemsController.content').objectAt(context.item_id);
    var applicationController = router.get('applicationController');
    applicationController.connectOutlet({ 
        viewClass: router.namespace.ItemView, 
        context: item, 
        controller: applicationController 
    });
  }
})

The item selection stops working without any errors.
Did I get something wrong in the code, or scenario with multiple views for controller is just not supported?

UPD:

The ItemView template is as follows:

<script type="text/x-handlebars" data-template-name="item">
  <h1>{{title}}</h1>
  {{{description}}}
</script>

Answer 1

Have you tried using the relevant item as your controller? This way you avoid creating unused empty controllers and have your item content available to your view.

applicationController.connectOutlet({ 
    viewClass: router.namespace.ItemView, 
    controller: item
});