sending wildcards to the viewmodel

[gilesbradshaw]

More of a suggestion than a bug but would be very interested to know if this might be possible.

I'd like to be able to have an href like this parent/x/child/y/grandchild/z
such that x y and z get bound to values in the view model - in the same manner as URI parameters can be

and pages set up like this

<div data-bind = "page : {id:'parent'}">
    <div data-bind = "page : {id:'?', wildcard:pickparent}">      
        <!-- ko with: parent -->
            <div data-bind = "page : {id:'child'}">
                <div data-bind = "page : {id:'?', wildcard:pickchild}">      
                    <!-- ko with: child -->
                          --- the same for grandchild

                     <!--  /ko -->
                  <div>
            </div>            
        <!--  /ko -->
    <div>
</div>

[gilesbradshaw]

ok this is how I have implemented it I've called it nameParam so you do nameParam:'observablename'

I've put this at the start of your setParams function

if (this.pageRoute) {
            var nameParam = this.val('nameParam') || false;
            if (nameParam) {
                if (this.ctx[nameParam]) { // set observable ...
                    this.ctx[nameParam](this.pageRoute.name);
                } else { // ... or create observable
                    this.ctx[nameParam] = ko.observable(this.pageRoute.name);
                }
            }

        }

[finnsson]

Sounds excellent. I can see how this can be really useful. Do you got a fork that I can merge, are you interested in sending a pull request or should I copy the above code?

[gilesbradshaw]

Hi - glad you like it - I will fork and do a pull request but if I haven't and you want to incorporate it go ahead any how.

[gilesbradshaw]

mmm forked it but then when I try and clone repository to my PC I get

C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\git.exe clone -v --recurse-submodules --progress "[email protected]:GilesBradshaw/pagerjs.git" "C:/Users/giles/Documents/Visual Studio 2012/Projects/gbpagerjs"
Cloning into 'C:/Users/giles/Documents/Visual Studio 2012/Projects/gbpagerjs'...
remote: Total 1388 (delta 827), reused 1155 (delta 594)�[K
fatal: cannot create directory at 'demo/escaped_fragment/params/search?product=tv&price=200': Invalid argument
Done

Maybe you could just copy my code into your project if you wish to.

cheers

g

[finnsson]

I updated the repo so it can be cloned from windows and fixed the nameParam-config.

You can read about binding_wildcard_to_observable.

[gilesbradshaw]

brilliant! Thanks for that :)