Logo Questions Linux Laravel Mysql Ubuntu Git Menu
 

How can a Dart Web Component obtain a reference to its children?

For illustration reasons, I've created a class inheriting from WebComponent called FancyOption that changes to a background color specified by text in one child element upon clicking another child element.

import 'package:web_ui/web_ui.dart';
import 'dart:html';

class FancyOptionComponent extends WebComponent {
  ButtonElement _button;
  TextInputElement _textInput;

  FancyOptionComponent() {
    // obtain reference to button element
    // obtain reference to text element

    // failed attempt
    //_button = this.query('.fancy-option-button');
    // error: Bad state: host element has not been set. (no idea)

    // make the background color of this web component the specified color
    final changeColorFunc = (e) => this.style.backgroundColor = _textInput.value;
    _button.onClick.listen(changeColorFunc);
  }
}

FancyOption HTML:

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>
  <body>
    <element name="x-fancy-option" constructor="FancyOptionComponent" extends="div">
      <template>
        <div>
          <button class='fancy-option-button'>Click me!</button>
          <input class='fancy-option-text' type='text'>
        </div>
      </template>
      <script type="application/dart" src="fancyoption.dart"></script>
    </element>
  </body>
</html>

I have three of them on a page like this.

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Sample app</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="myapp.css">
    <link rel="components" href="fancyoption.html">
  </head>
  <body>
    <h3>Type a color name into a fancy option textbox, push the button and 
    see what happens!</h3>

    <div is="x-fancy-option" id="fancy-option1"></div>
    <div is="x-fancy-option" id="fancy-option2"></div>
    <div is="x-fancy-option" id="fancy-option3"></div>

    <script type="application/dart" src="myapp.dart"></script>
    <script src="packages/browser/dart.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>
like image 469
Phlox Midas Avatar asked Feb 17 '23 21:02

Phlox Midas


1 Answers

Just use getShadowRoot() and query against it:

import 'package:web_ui/web_ui.dart';
import 'dart:html';

class FancyOptionComponent extends WebComponent {
  ButtonElement _button;
  TextInputElement _textInput;

  inserted() {
    // obtain references
    _button = getShadowRoot('x-fancy-option').query('.fancy-option-button');
    _textInput = getShadowRoot('x-fancy-option').query('.fancy-option-text');

    // make the background color of this web component the specified color
    final changeColorFunc = (e) => this.style.backgroundColor = _textInput.value;
    _button.onClick.listen(changeColorFunc);
  }
}

Where x-fancy-option string is the name of the element.

Note: I changed your constructor to be inserted() method, which is a life cycle method.

like image 78
Kai Sellgren Avatar answered Feb 19 '23 19:02

Kai Sellgren