How do I call a component via its' shortid?

msageryd

I can not sucessfully call a component via its' shortid. How should the syntax be for this?

I have a helper for finding the correct component. The component call looks like this. I simply replaced the name parameter with shortid, but this was maybe too naive.

 return component.call({
    ...this,
    someData: 'bla bla',
  }, shortid, options)

msageryd

Hmm, this wasn't implemented in the old V2 syntax. Maybe it's not implemented in V3 either?
https://github.com/jsreport/jsreport/issues/506

I strongly vote for this feature. I'm building a quite advanced concept with components (BTW. I love them). The origin for my component structures resides in a database. I would rather not rely on component names and locations, since this is not at all as reliable as real keys, i.e. shortid. If I refer to my components via name and location I could breaka a template just my moving or renaming a component.

jan_blaha

We will consider it...

You can implement your own helper rendering components by shortid
https://playground.jsreport.net/w/anon/T0y7ehaB

msageryd

That's great!
I was looking for an API like this, figured it should exists somewhere.

Is there any documentation for tha jsreport-APIs?