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Working with Route Hooks in Badgeyay

Badgeyay is an open source project developed by FOSSASIA Community to generate badges for conferences and events through a simple user interface.

In this post I am going to explain about the route lifecycle hooks in ember and how we have utilized one lifecycle component to reset the controller state in badge generation form. In Ember every entity has some predefined set of methods, that it goes through the existence of the application. Route is not different from it. Our main goal is to restore the state of the controller every time we entered into a route, so that we receive a clean and new instance and not the previous state. The hook that fits in the situation is setupController(). This method is called after model() hook to set the controller state in the route. We will restore the variables in the controller here in this method to reset it to original state. This will help in removing the messages and progress on the previous state of the page on a new visit.

Procedure

  1. Open the route, where we want to override the hook, and create a method setupController() this will call the base hook and override its behaviour.
setupController(controller, model) {
  this._super(…arguments);
  set(controller, ‘defImages’, model.def_images);
  set(controller, ‘user’, model.user);
  this.set(‘controller.badgeGenerated’, false);
  this.set(‘controller.showProgress’, false);
}

 

As we can see in the method, it first initialises the super constructor and then we are writing the logic for the reset state. This will reset the badgeGenerated and showProgress variable in the controller to mentioned values.

  1. Getting the generated badge link from the last promise resolved to set the value of the variable in the controller action.
sendBadge(badgeData) {

        this.set(‘badgeGenerated’, true);

  },

 

This will set the value of the variable to the received object from backend.

  1. Showing the content in frontend based on the values of the variable. When we initially visit the route it is set to as false in the setupController() hook and is changed later on through some promise resolvement in an action.
{{#if badgeGenerated}}

 . . .


{{/if}}

 

This content will be only be shown in the present state and when the user revisits the route the state will be resetted.

Pull Request for the respective issue – https://github.com/fossasia/badgeyay/pull/1313

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