One possibility is to make a custom constructor:
<script>
foo.space.FooElement = function() {
return document.createElement('foo-element');
}
</script>
you can also use this technique to make constructors that take arguments.
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Vicențiu Ciorbaru <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I've opened an issue there to a link to this thread. It would be helpful
> to have any potential workaround ideas in the meantime, if you have any.
>
> Vicențiu
>
>
> On Monday, August 11, 2014 10:06:40 PM UTC+1, Steve Orvell wrote:
>
>> I suggest filing an issue here: https://github.com/
>> Polymer/polymer-dev/issues.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Vicențiu Ciorbaru <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi polymer devs,
>>>
>>> I've recently been involved in porting the trace-viewer[1] project
>>> bundled with Google Chrome to use Polymer.
>>>
>>> Given the size of the project, and the fact that it's mostly just one
>>> big page, we've run into the need to use namespaces for our modules. In
>>> order to avoid conflicts we've attempted to implement the rule that each
>>> constructor for a polymer element should have a name like:
>>>
>>> /path/to/file + ElementConstructor => PathToFileElementConstructor
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, this quickly gets out of hand and has a major readability
>>> impact in the code. An example is a polymer element defined in the file
>>> /tracing/analysis/analysis-view.html. This ends up being
>>> TracingAnalysisAnalysisView. What would be really useful is to be able to
>>> export the constructor of the element within a namespace, and not have it
>>> stuck to the window object.
>>>
>>> I'm looking for something along the lines of:
>>> <polymer-element name="foo-element" constructor="FooElement" namespace=
>>> "foo.space">
>>> <style>
>>> /* css */
>>> </style>
>>> <template>
>>> <!-- More HTML -->
>>> </template>
>>>
>>> <script>
>>> Polymer({
>>> ready: function(){
>>> this.barProperty = [];
>>> }
>>> });
>>> </script>
>>> </polymer-element>
>>>
>>> /* some other file */
>>> <link rel="import" href="foo/space/foo_element.html">
>>>
>>> <script>
>>> var fooElement = new foo.space.FooElement();
>>> </script>
>>>
>>>
>>> I've read the available documentation on this, but I could not find an
>>> appropriate way to actually solve this issue. Is there any trick available
>>> to solve this?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Vicențiu Ciorbaru
>>>
>>> [1] https://code.google.com/p/trace-viewer/
>>>
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