Question

I have a signup form

In the route I create the new record (with will contain the signup data)

App.SignupRoute = Ember.Route.extend({
  model:function () {
    return App.Fence.createRecord({date:new Date()});}});

In the form I checked successfully that the record (fence) is bound to the form elements

Now I would like to have a save button and access the data in the controller method

I tried:

< a href="#" {{ action "addsignup" this}}>SignUp</a>

and

< button type="button" {{action "addsignup" this}}>SignUp</button>

The controller method is being called, but I cannot access the fence instance 🙁

App.SignupController = Ember.ObjectController.extend({

  addsignup:function (fence) {

    console.log(fence.name);         // => undefined
    console.log(this.name);          // => undefined
    console.log(fence.get("name"));  // => undefined
    console.log(this.get("name"));   // => undefined

How can I access the model data in the controller method?

Thank you very much for any help!

Answer 1

by default, an action passes the view. With

{{action "addsignup"}}

you can then access the controller and thus its members with

addsignup:function () {
    var controller = this.controller;
    var name = controller.name;
}

By passing an object in action, you can access it when definition corresponding parameters in the function definition.

hope this helps, ph