allow to set extra data on route, can be accessed in controller

[yasinuslu]

I just needed this feature and couldn't find it. I thought it might be helpful.

[cmather]

Hey @yasinuslu, All of the options are passed along from the route definition. So you should be able to get to custom options inside the options of the route. If you tell me a little more about what you're trying to do I can see what exists already that might help. There's also first class support for a data function on routes and controllers. This gets called automatically (in an autorun) inside the run method of controller during rendering.

[yasinuslu]

this.route('home', {
  path: '/',
  controller: 'ProductsController',

  action: 'list',

  foo: "different route same action, custom title ..."
});

ApplicationController = RouteController.extend({
  initialize: function() {
    // can't access to {foo:""}
  }
})


ProductsController = ApplicationController.extend({
  list: function () {
     // can't access to {foo:""}
  },
});

I couldn't find foo in any of those contexts. this, this.route, this.context, then i realized only a few selected keys were being assigned to newly created Route object.

If you help me access those variables i'd appreciate it.

[cmather]

foo should be available inside this.options in the controller. But I made some changes a few days ago to the way options are passed along and may have broken this. I will take a look this afternoon. The options from the router config should be passed along to the controller at constructor time.

[yasinuslu]

Ah i was missing that i could access those fields from this.route.options, that's enough for me.

Thanks.

[cmather]

Yeah, still a little janky though. I'll be thinking how to clean this up. Thanks for bringing up the issue.