Unable to create an instance of controller

[babar.sajjad]

Lets suppose I have a controller

Ext.define('Application.controller.MyPlan' ,{
    extend : 'Ext.app.Controller',
    config: {
               id: 'nut',        stores: [
            'plan'
        ],
        views: [
            'plan.get_plan',
        ],
        models: [
            'Plan'
        ],
        before: {
        },
        control: {
        },
        refs: {
        },
        routes:{
            'plan' : 'get_plan',
        }
    },
   get_plan: function(){
                 ..................
                 ..................
  },
});

When I do this var obj = new Application.controller.MyPlan();[/CODE]
I get this Uncaught TypeError: Object #<Object> has no method 'getRouter'
Is there any other way to do this because when I use defjs it also says me that

LOG   Resolving 'lazyPlan'.sencha-touch.js:598
LOG   Creating instance of 'Application.controller.MyPlan'.
LOG   Controller.js:475Uncaught TypeError: Object #<Object> has no method 'getRouter'

[mitchellsimoens]

You should use the controllers config in Ext.application to load and create the controllers.

[michael.parrott]

I know this is old, but I had the same problem and found the solution, so here it is:

var newController = Ext.create( 'MyController.controller.name', { application: MyAppName.app } );

MyAppName.app can be any reference to Ext.app.Application

[jimmont]

The following has the same error, somehow sencha touch has problems with singletons:

Ext.define('MyApp.controller.foo',{
   singleton: true,
   extend: 'Ext.app.Controller',
   init: function(){}
});

// throws error: 
// Uncaught TypeError: Object #<Object> has no method 'getRouter'

Ext.versions

Object

• core: Ext.Version.Ext.extend.constructor
  • build: 0
  • major: 4
  • minor: 1
  • patch: 0
  • shortVersion: "410"
  • version: "4.1.0"
  • __proto__: F
• touch: Ext.Version.Ext.extend.constructor
  • build: 0
  • major: 2
  • minor: 1
  • patch: 0
  • release: "beta2"
  • shortVersion: "210"
  • version: "2.1.0beta2"

[mitchellsimoens]

Remove the singleton: true property

[jimmont]

How do you suggest I setup a singleton without using this flag? Is there an easy way to set this up? I'm trying to use a single controller for modal windows so that opening multiple modals doesn't result in them overlaying each other, but I can imagine other applications for this sort of thing.

[mitchellsimoens]

All you need to do for controllers is add the name of it in the controllers array in Ext.application and the controller will be instantiated and used.

[nguerin]

This is hard to do in unit testing frameworks like Jasmine and makes testing individual units of code difficult. Do you have any suggestions how one could unit test a controller?