sending drop-down value to parent - vue.js

Question

I have this form on my parent:
<template>
<b-form #submit="onSubmit">
<CountryDropdown/>
</b-form>
</template>
<script>
import ...
export default {
form: {
country: ''
}
}
</script>
This is my Dropdown component using vue-select:
<template>
<v-select label="countryName" :options="countries" />
</template>
<script>
export default {
data() {
return {
countries: [
{ countryCode: 'EE', countryName: 'Estonia' },
{ countryCode: 'RU', countryName: 'Russia' }
]
}
}
}
</script>
I need to pass the countryCode value to its parent's form.country. I tried using $emit, but I cant seem to figure out how upon selection
it will set the parent value, and not upon submit.
EDIT:
The submitted solutions work great, I'll add my solution here:
I added an input event to my v-select:
<v-select #input="setSelected" ... />
in my script i define the selected and setSelected method :
data()
return
selected: ''
setSelected(value) {
this.selected = value.countryCode
this.$emit("selected", value.countryCode)
}
And in the parent:
<CountryDropdown v-on:selected="getCountry />
and parent script:
getCountry(country) {
this.form.country = country
}

Answer 1

You could use Vue's v-model mechanism to bind the output of vue-select to form.country in the container.
In CountryDropdown, implement v-model:
Add a prop named value 1️⃣, and bind it to vue-select.value 2️⃣
Emit input-event with the desired value. In this case, we want to emit countryCode as the value. 3️⃣
<template>
<v-select
:value="value" 2️⃣
#input="$emit('input', $event ? $event.countryCode : '')" 3️⃣
/>
</template>
<script>
export default {
props: ['value'], // 1️⃣
}
</script>
Now, the container of CountryDropdown could bind form.country to it, updating form.country to the selected country's countryCode upon selection:
<CountryDropdown v-model="form.country" />
demo

Answer 2

As you seem to know, $emit is what you need to use to send an event from a component to its' parent. To make that happen you need to add a few more things to your current code.
To get the options to list in your v-select you should use a computed function to isolate the names, like this:
computed: {
countryNames() {
return this.countries.map(c => c.countryName)
}
},
You will then need to list the names in your v-select like this:
<v-select label="countryName" :items="countryNames" #change="selectedCountry" />
You will see that #change is calling a method, this will be the method to emit your country code and it can do so like this:
methods: {
selectedCountry(e) {
let code = this.countries.find(cntry => cntry.countryName === e)
this.$emit('code', code.countryCode)
}
},
You will need a listener in your parent to hear the emit, so add something like this:
<CountryDropdown v-on:code="countryCodeFunction"/>
And then you just need a countryCodeFunction() in your methods that does something with the emitted code.