sedwards2009/dojo-typescript-class

An experiment aimed at using TypeScript to create Dojo classes.

dojo-typescript-class's Issues

Almost completely awesome! but...

Hello,

I have been playing around with this technique and agree that it is, in most ways, superior to the one that I had come up with. Only one problem that I see: for templated widgets, I can't find an order that instantiates the widget correctly.

The canonical way to try this would be something like:

///<amd-dependency path="dojo/text!./_templates/template.html" />
/// <reference path="../../typings/dijit.d.ts" />

import dojoClass = require("app/dojoClass");
import _WidgetBase = require("dijit/_WidgetBase");
import _TemplatedMixin = require("dijit/_TemplatedMixin");

var template: string = require("dojo/text!./_templates/RulesView.html");

class Foo extends dijit._WidgetBase {
    templateString: string = template;

    constructor(params?: Object, elem?: HTMLElement) {
        super();
        dojoClass.construct(this, params, elem);
    }
}

dojoClass.create(Foo, [_WidgetBase, _TemplatedMixin]);

export=Foo;

however, this causes the application to try to new up the super (dijit._WidgetBase) and the new widget. This causes Dojo to throw an error since it tries to double instantiate this widget and assign them both the same ID.

If we can find a way around this, then I think it addresses all of the use cases in a much more efficient way. I'll keep working on it and update this issue if I find anything.