That's a pretty neat tip!

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 5:57 PM, 'Scott Miles' via Polymer <
[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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