I know this isn't a good method to use long term, but for troubleshooting, is there any way I can pass a simple string while binding a template and then access it as a variable within the template? For instance, if this was my binding:
<!-- ko template: { name: tmplOne }, myvar: 'apple' -->
and this was tmplOne:
<div>
<span>Fruit: </span>
<span data-bind="text: myvar"></span>
</div>
It would result in the folowing:
fruit: apple
Even if I have to declare an observable in the viewmodel called "fruit", can I manually set it at template binding?
Use
<!-- ko template: { name: tmplOne, templateOptions: {myvar: 'apple'} } -->
More here: http://www.knockmeout.net/2011/03/quick-tip-reusing-template-by-passing.html
You can supply a data parameter to the template binding and define an object literal if you want just like you are doing:
<!-- ko template: { name: tmplOne }, myvar: 'apple' -->
instead do this:
<!-- ko template: { name: tmplOne, data: { myvar: 'apple' } } -->
http://knockoutjs.com/documentation/template-binding.html
For people reading on later versions of knockout, this would appear to be a good usecase for components vs templates.
You can pass arbitrary data to a template, while maintaining the currently applied viemodel, by supplying a composition to the data
parameter of the binding.
You could for example wrap the template content in a with
binding, bound to the composed $data
property, creating a new binding context. This way, the currently applied bindings don't need to be updated.
ko.applyBindings({
fruits: ['banana', 'orange']
});
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/knockout/3.4.2/knockout-min.js"></script>
<div data-bind="template: { name: 'tmplOne', data: { myModelData: $data, myVar: 'apple' } }"></div>
<script type="text/html" id="tmplOne">
<!-- ko with: myModelData -->
<span>My model</span>
<ul data-bind="foreach: fruits">
<li data-bind="text: $data"></li>
</ul>
<div>
<span>My custom data:</span>
<span data-bind="text: $parent.myVar"></span>
</div>
<!-- /ko -->
</script>