Widget: Allow instantiation without the new keyword.

jquery · Jan 23, 2011 · 244eebe74dbc7bb35141e58e52ef9eaa21bd35f1 · 244eebe
1 parent 3a0b617
commit 244eebe74dbc7bb35141e58e52ef9eaa21bd35f1
Unified Split

Showing with 13 additions and 1 deletion.

+13 −1 ui/jquery.ui.widget.js
diff --git a/ui/jquery.ui.widget.js b/ui/jquery.ui.widget.js
@@ -37,7 +37,13 @@ $.widget = function( name, base, prototype ) {
 	$[ namespace ] = $[ namespace ] || {};
 	$[ namespace ][ name ] = function( options, element ) {
+  
+		// allow instantiation without "new" keyword
+  
+		if ( !this._createWidget ) {
+  
+			return new $[ namespace ][ name ]( options, element );
+  
+		}
+  
+
 		// allow instantiation without initializing for simple inheritance
+  
+		// must use "new" keyword (the code above always passes args)
 		if ( arguments.length ) {
 			this._createWidget( options, element );
 		}
@@ -97,7 +103,7 @@ $.widget.bridge = function( name, object ) {
 				if ( instance ) {
 					instance.option( options || {} )._init();
 				} else {
-  
-					$.data( this, name, new object( options, this ) );
+  
+					object( options, this );
 				}
 			});
 		}
@@ -107,7 +113,13 @@ $.widget.bridge = function( name, object ) {
 };
 $.Widget = function( options, element ) {
+  
+	// allow instantiation without "new" keyword
+  
+	if ( !this._createWidget ) {
+  
+		return new $[ namespace ][ name ]( options, element );
+  
+	}
+  
+
 	// allow instantiation without initializing for simple inheritance
+  
+	// must use "new" keyword (the code above always passes args)
 	if ( arguments.length ) {
 		this._createWidget( options, element );
 	}