Question

# in the handlebars template    
{{action "do_something" target="view"}}

# in the view
APP.view = Ember.View.extend(
  do_something: (evt) ->
    console.log evt #this used to contain a javascript event object, it was useful at times :(
)

I know I can pass in a context. But I want to know if there is a way to get the actual event.

Answer 1

if you want an event object you’ll need to create a custom View. Here is an example of something I used in my App:

App.ProductsGridSortButtonView = Ember.View.extend({
  tagName: 'a',
  classNames: ['productsSortButton'],
  attributeBindings: ['data-sort','data-sort-type'],
  click: function(e){
    this.get('parentView').sortProducts(e);
  }
});

and in the template:

{{#view App.ProductsGridSortButtonView data-sort="price" data-sort-type="number"}}