#12842

application.controller.js

import Ember from 'ember';

export default Ember.Controller.extend({
  elements: [
    {name: "Uranium"},
    {name: "Plutonium"},
    {name: "Francium"},
    {name: "Einstanium"}
  ],
  searchQuery: ''
});

application.template.hbs

<h1>Demonstration</h1>
Search for elements by name: {{input type="text" value=searchQuery}}

<p style="color: blue;">
  There are {{numberOfFilteredElements}} elements matching your search:
</p>

<!-- We clearly express that changing "numberOfFilteredElements" in the componnent should change "numberOfFilteredElements" in the controller too -->
{{my-list model=elements searchQuery=searchQuery numberOfFilteredElements=(mut numberOfFilteredElements)}}

<hr>

<h1>Notes</h1>
<p>The rectangle is the component.</p>
<p>The sentence in blue should be "There are N elements matching your search" with N being the number of elements matching the search.</p>
<p>If you search things, "numberOfFilteredElements" should get updated in the component, and thus updated here too. You can clearly see it is not. <br>
But if you change "numberOfFilteredElements" in the component using the number imput (in red) in the component, it is effectively synchronized. Why?</p>

my-list.component.js

import Ember from 'ember';

export default Ember.Component.extend({
  // Just some basic styling to distinguish what belongs to the component
  attributeBindings: ['style'],
  style: 'border: 1px solid black;',
  init() {
    this._super(...arguments);
    window.foo = this;
  },
  
  searchQuery: '', // The search input
  model: [], // All the elements to search in
  
  // Return the elements that match the search query
  filteredElements: Ember.computed('model.[]', 'searchQuery', function () {
    let searchQuery = this.get('searchQuery').toLowerCase();
    let elements = this.get('model');
    
    return elements.filter(e => {
      let name = e.name.toLowerCase();
      return name.indexOf(searchQuery) > -1;
    });
  }),
  
  // Return the number of elements that match the search query. This is the property we would like to be able to get from OUTSIDE the component
  numberOfFilteredElements: Ember.computed('filteredElements', function () {
    return this.get('filteredElements.length');
  }).readOnly()
})

my-list.template.hbs

<ul>
{{#each filteredElements as |e|}}
  <li>{{e.name}}</li>
{{/each}}
</ul>

<p style="color: red;">
Do not use this box before reading the notes:
{{input type="number" value=numberOfFilteredElements}}
</p>

twiddle.json

{
  "version": "0.5.0",
  "EmberENV": {
    "FEATURES": {}
  },
  "options": {
    "enable-testing": false
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "jquery": "https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.3/jquery.js",
    "ember": "2.2.0",
    "ember-data": "2.2.0",
    "ember-template-compiler": "2.2.0"
  }
}