Durandal, get path of the current module - durandal

Question

Is there a way in Durandal to get the path of the current module? I'm building a dashboard inside of a SPA and would like to organize my widgets in the same way that durandal does with "FolderWidgetName" and the folder would contain a controller.js and view.html file. I tried using the getView() method in my controller.js file but could never get it to look in the current folder for the view.
getView(){
return "view"; // looks in the "App" folder
return "./view"; // looks in the "App/durandal" folder
return "/view"; // looks in the root of the website
return "dashboard/widgets/htmlviewer/view" //don't want to hard code the path
}
I don't want to hardcode the path inside of the controller
I don't want to override the viewlocator because the rest of the app still functions as a regular durandal spa that uses standard conventions.

Answer 1

You could use define(['module'], function(module) { ... in order to get a hold on the current module. getView() would than allow you to set a specific view or, like in the example below, dynamically switch between multiple views.
define(['module'], function(module) {
var roles = ['default', 'role1', 'role2'];
var role = ko.observable('default');
var modulePath = module.id.substr(0, module.id.lastIndexOf('/') +1);
var getView = ko.computed(function(){
var roleViewMap = {
'default': modulePath + 'index.html',
role1: modulePath + 'role1.html',
role2: modulePath + 'role2.html'
};
this.role = (role() || 'default');
return roleViewMap[this.role];
});
return {
showCodeUrl: true,
roles: roles,
role: role,
getView: getView,
propertyOne: 'This is a databound property from the root context.',
propertyTwo: 'This property demonstrates that binding contexts flow through composed views.',
moduleJSON: ko.toJSON(module)
};
});
Here's a live example http://dfiddle.github.io/dFiddle-1.2/#/view-composition/getView

Answer 2

You can simply bind your setup view to router.activeRoute.name or .url and that should do what you are looking for. If you are trying to write back to the setup viewmodels property when loading you can do that like below.
If you are using the revealing module you need to define the functions and create a module definition list and return it. Example :
define(['durandal/plugins/router', 'view models/setup'],
function(router, setup) {
var myObservable = ko.observable();
function activate() {
setup.currentViewName = router.activeRoute.name;
return refreshData();
}
var refreshData = function () {
myDataService.getSomeData(myObservable);
};
var viewModel = {
activate: activate,
deactivate: deactivate,
canDeactivate: canDeactivate
};
return viewModel;
});
You can also reveal literals, observables and even functions directly while revealing them -
title: ko.observable(true),
desc: "hey!",
canDeactivate: function() { if (title) ? true : false,
Check out durandal's router page for more info on what is available. Also, heads up Durandal 2.0 is switching up the router.
http://durandaljs.com/documentation/Router/

Answer 3

Add an activate function to your viewmodel as follows:
define([],
function() {
var vm = {
//#region Initialization
activate: activate,
//#endregion
};
return vm;
//#region Internal methods
function activate(context) {
var moduleId = context.routeInfo.moduleId;
var hash = context.routeInfo.hash;
}
//#endregion
});