Mapping array contents to default controller

[wasima]

hi all,
i have a method here i do mapping of a tab name to a specific controller, for some tabs i have mapped corresponding controller , i want something like " for all the other tabs map 'Summary.DynamicTabController' as the default controller " .
something like : this.controllerNameMap['all_other_tabs'] = Summary.DynamicTabController';

createControllerMap: function() {
        this.controllerNameMap = new Array();
        this.controllerNameMap['Summary'] = 'Summary.SummaryController';
        this.controllerNameMap['Equipment'] = 'Equipment.EquipmentController';
        this.controllerNameMap['Traffic'] = 'Traffic.TrafficController';
        this.controllerNameMap['Client'] = 'Client.ClientController';
        this.controllerNameMap['RF'] = 'RF.RFController';
        this.controllerNameMap['NewTab1'] = 'Summary.DynamicTabController';     
       
    },

Pls help me .Thanks in advance

[mitchellsimoens]

So why don't you just have a default mapping? I'm sorry, not really understanding what you are doing or why you can't have a default?

[wasima]

Hi, Mitchell Simoens,
Let me try explaining the problem.

What i mean is i have 5 tabs(Summary,Equipment,Traffic,Client,RF) in my tab panel which are static , now i have an add button in tab panel on clicking which new tabs get added dynamically like NewTab1,NewTab2 etc, to these newly added tabs i need to specify which controller they are mapped to , for all the dynamically added tabs the controller is same 'Summary.DynamicTabController' for all the other 5 static tabs i have specified their controller names manually in this function, so i need to tell this function that if you don't get tab names from one of these 5 static tab names you map the tab name to the default controller that is 'Summary.DynamicTabController'.

Hope you understood the issue now.

[evant]

You can just check if the name exists:

var map = {
    summary: 'foo',
    equipment: 'bar'
};

var a = 'summary';
var b = 'notthere';
if (map[a]) {
    console.log(map[a]);
}

if (!map[b]) {
    //default;
}

[wasima]

Thanks evant,
but newly added tabs have different names like NewTab1,NewTab2 etc.that are generated dynamically .. I cant fix it to just 'nothere' and do mapping .

createControllerMap: function() {
        this.controllerNameMap = new Array();
        var map = {
            Summary: 'Summary.SummaryController',
            Equipment: 'Equipment.EquipmentController',
            Traffic : 'Traffic.TrafficController',
            Client : 'Client.ClientController',
            RF : 'RF.RFController'
        };
        var a = 'Summary';
        var b = 'notthere';
        if (map[a]) {
            console.log(map[a]);
        this.controllerNameMap['Summary'] = 'Summary.SummaryController';
        this.controllerNameMap['Equipment'] = 'Equipment.EquipmentController';
        this.controllerNameMap['Traffic'] = 'Traffic.TrafficController';
        this.controllerNameMap['Client'] = 'Client.ClientController';
        this.controllerNameMap['RF'] = 'RF.RFController';
        }
        else {
            this.controllernamemap['nothere'] = 'summary.DynamicTabController'; // cant do this 'nothere' can be NewTab1,NewTab2 etc
        }

[tvanzoelen]

I do not see what you want. What is createControllerMap? When is it called?

But...when registering dynamically new items the most common way is. First register your static stuff in a register

like you did initial,

createControllerMap: function() {
        this.controllerNameMap = new Array();
        this.controllerNameMap['Summary'] = 'Summary.SummaryController';
        this.controllerNameMap['Equipment'] = 'Equipment.EquipmentController';
        this.controllerNameMap['Traffic'] = 'Traffic.TrafficController';
        this.controllerNameMap['Client'] = 'Client.ClientController';
        this.controllerNameMap['RF'] = 'RF.RFController';   
       
    },

do you have new items like a tab. Then on render or creation register the controller

tab.on('render', function(c){      
      registerNewTab(c);
});

     registerNewTab: function(tab) {     
        this.controllerNameMap[tab.itemId] = 'Summary.DynamicTabController';       
    },

[evant]

That's the point. You declare a map of existing names/controllers.

If it doesn't exist in the map, then you know to use the default controller.