Orthogonality of Ext.app.Controller MVC accessor methods

[robl]

I'm looking at the reference documentation for Ext.app.Controller. There is a method getView(String name) but there is no method to query a controller for all it's views nor is there a way to add a view to controller or remove one. There is also no way to get the Application instance for a given controller. Why is that? The same applies for models, controllers and stores as it does views.

I would think that Controller would have these methods (or something similar). Please explain to me why it should or should not have these methods.

getApplication()
Returns application associated with this controller

getViews()
Returns list of all views associated with this controller

addView(Ext.base view)
Adds a view to this controller

removeView(Ext.base view)
Removes a view from this controller

getModels()
Returns list of all models associated with this controller

addModel(Ext.data.Model)
Adds a model to this controller

removeModel(Ext.data.Model)
Removes a model from this controller

getStores()
Returns list of all models associated with this controller

addStore(Ext.data.AbstractStore)
Adds a store to this controller

removeStore(Ext.data.AbstractStore)
Removes a store from this controller

[el_chief]

• this.application returns a controller's application
• you probably want to consider one controller class per view class, though multiple view instances per controller instance