Thanks Jon,
Unfortunately I need to access methods and attributes defined in the
enclosing component, not the top level component. Is there any easy way to
do this?
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Jonathan Swartz <swa...@pobox.com> wrote:
> This was a change in Mason 1.1:
>
> - ** The base_comp is now changed for each component call, unless that
> component call uses a component object for its first argument, or the
> call starts with SELF: or PARENT:.
>
> It was controversial at the time, for this reason...
>
> If what you want in submit_notice is always the top level component, you
> can use
>
> $m->request_comp->attr('submit_notice_message')
>
> Jon
>
>
> On Jul 22, 2009, at 4:57 PM, Donald French wrote:
>
> My apology... I accidentally hit send. Here is my full message.
>>
>> I have been tasked with upgrading our Mason install from 1.02 to the
>> latest version (1.4.2) and all went smoothly until I tried to access certain
>> components that appear to be missing their inheritance chain. Keep in mind
>> this all worked in the old 1.02 version.
>>
>> I have a component (/_styles/_top_level) that contains...
>>
>> <% $m->call_next() %>
>>
>> <& /_methods/_submit_notice &>
>>
>> <%attr>
>> submit_notice_message => "Your request is being processed..."
>> </%attr>
>>
>> In the child component (/_method/_submit_notice) I have...
>>
>> <div id="submit_notice">
>> <% $m->base_comp->attr('submit_notice_message') %>
>> </div>
>>
>> The child component simply accesses the attribute defined in the calling
>> component however when I run this I get this Mason error:
>>
>> "no attribute 'submit_notice_message' for component
>> /_methods/_submit_notice [html]"
>>
>> If I Dumper the $m->base_comp component I can see that the
>> /_method/_submit_notice component is the object that is having ->attr()
>> called on it and I can additionally see that in the code_cache the
>> /top_level component is referenced and it contains an attr hash with the
>> correct string in it.
>>
>> The really strange part however if that if I loop through the
>> $m->callers() array and print out the component stack and their attr hashes
>> I get:
>>
>> PATH: /_methods/_submit_notice
>> ATTRS: $VAR1 = {};
>>
>> PATH: /_styles/_top_level:top_matter
>> ATTRS: $VAR1 = {};
>>
>> PATH: /autohandler
>> ATTRS: $VAR1 = {
>> 'hide_environment_bar' => '0',
>> 'escape_from_iframe' => 1
>> };
>>
>> The attr hash is empty for /_styles/_top_level this case. I am not sure
>> this is relevant but I am mentioning it in case someone else has also
>> encountered this issue.
>>
>> Thanks for any help!
>>
>>
>>
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