Hi Robin,
Looks like this is about what you're doing already, but here's what I
do in that situation:
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// There are two possibilities. The "entry" object may a single
// text item, or it may be a replication manager.
// For a single item, just look at it.
// For a replicated list, iterate over the list.
var isSingleItem = entry['getCloneNumber'] == undefined;
if (isSingleItem) {
// When the entry hasn't been replicated,
// its datapath dp can be null.
var hasDp = entry.datapath.p != null;
if (hasDp) {
// Do something with "entry".
}
}
var i = 0;
var currClone = entry.getCloneNumber(i++);
while (currClone != null) {
// Do something with "currClone".
currClone = entry.getCloneNumber(i++);
}
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Unfortunately, I don't know of any way to force replication programatically.
If you find a better way, please post it to the list. I'd like to know it.
Cheers,
Michael
Robin Sheat wrote:
Hi, if I have something like:
<mycomponent datapath="thepath" />
and thepath only matches one thing, no replication manager is used. This means
that there is extra checking required when interacting with this component,
as it may be many components contained inside a replication manager, or it
may be just the component itself, and this state may change when more data
comes along or gets deleted later.
I'd like to have something that runs through all the potentially replicated
mycomponent instances when the cloning is done and they've been rendered (in
this case I want to calculate a value based on them). I can do this fine if
there's multiple ones (there's an example for this in the docs), however it
seems I have to also have a separate hook in place in case there's only one
thing. What I'd like to be able to do is force replication even if there's
zero or one items being replicated, that way the one bit of code will handle
them all. Is this possible, or is there another recommended way of doing this
sort of thing?
