SitePen: Creating and Enhancing Dojo Classes
You have probably noted over the past few months that I've been working a lot with the Dojo Toolkit. SitePen has been kind enough to allow me to guest blog about a Dojo topic I find very interesting: creating and enhancing Dojo classes. From the post:
Like all top-notch JavaScript toolkits, Dojo tries to make its classes as flexible as possible, knowing that users of the toolkit may have different ideas about how a given class or class method should work. Luckily, Dojo provides you a number of methods by which you can subclass or modify existing classes. Let's examine a few ways you can make Dojo classes exactly the way you like.
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Hi,
Maybe you’ll be able to help me with understanding new way of class definition in new dojo. I’m using latest version of dojo. I try to define a few classes in separate files. Example (js/TwitterManager.js):
require([ "dojo/_base/declare", "dojo/request/script"], function( declare, script) { declare("TwitterManager", script, { // The default username username: "defaultUser", get: function() { script.get("http://search.twitter.com/search.json", { jsonp: "callback", query: {q: "#dojo"} }).then(function(response){ //we're only interested in response.results, so strip it off and return it return response.results; }); } });});Then I try to instantiate this class in main file (index.html):
require(["dojo/on", "dojo/dom", "dojo/query", "dojo/mouse", "dojo/domReady!"], function(on, dom, query, mouse) { var x = new TwitterManager(); var results = x.get(); });This code doesn’t work. But when I remove from class definition “request/script” module it works fine. I really need to use “script.get” method in this class. Of course all code might be put in index.html :) but I look for OOP approach in dojo 1.8.
Thanks