Help getting ma-watch-list-get points into a controller/service

[BobDay]

TL:DR - Need to access <ma-watch-list-get> points in a directive controller. I assumed I could just inject $rootScope into the controller, but didn't see it there. Any help appreciated.

I have an maWatchListGet directive on my page which eventually informs an indicator/button directive template with several point properties (see service below):

<div ng-controller = 'PushCtrl as vm'>
    
<ma-watch-list-get ng-model="indicatorWl" parameters="indicatorWl.parameters" on-points-change="indicatorWl.points = $points" id="wl-indicator-id" watch-list-xid="WL_Indicator"></ma-watch-list-get>
<ma-get-point-value points="indicatorWl.points"></ma-get-point-value>

<push-lamp points="point" pid = "DP_ind_H2OT2"></push-lamp>
     
</div>

on the way, I need to get the indicatorWl.points into a service to filter and parse out several member values for use in the directive template. My problem is in getting access to the scope that contains the <ma-watch-list-get>, so that I can get it into the service.

...
.directive('pushLamp', function () {
    return {
      restrict: 'AE',
      template: [ '<div class="indicator {{vm.point.color}}"',
                  '<br/>{{vm.point.name}}<br/>{{vm.point.label}}</div>'
      ].join(''), 

      scope: {},
      bindToController: {
        points: '=',
        pid: '@'
      },
      controller: 'PushCtrl',
      controllerAs: 'vm'
    };
  })

  .controller('PushCtrl', ['$log','$timeout','pointService','$scope', function ($log,$timeout,pointService,$scope) {
    var vm = this;
    vm.point = pointService.getPoint(vm.points,vm.pid); //returns single point object from:

.factory('pointService', ['$filter','$log','$timeout', function ($filter, $log, $timeout) {

    var service = {};

    function colorVal(num) { //transform number into class name
      switch (num) {
        case 1:
          return 'white';
        case 2:
          return 'red';
        ...
          default:
          return 'off'
      }
    } //colorVal

    service.getPoint = function (points,pid) {
      var point = $filter('filter')(points, {xid:pid});
      return {
        value: point[0].value,
        colorClass: point[0].renderedValue,
        color: colorVal(point[0].value),
        blink: point[0].value % 10,
        xid: point[0].xid,
        name: point[0].name,
        label: point[0].tags.indText
      }
    };

    return service;

  }]) //pointService

[BobDay]

Some Progress;

I'm able to access the <ma-watch-list-get> points by putting an empty object on $rootScope, and making the points a property on that object. In my directive controller, if I delay, I'm able to filter and parse out the necessary point properties & refer them into the directive. I've yet been unable to use a service, in which I'd prefer to do the filtering / calculations of the points just for angularness' sake - because my call to the service returns nothing... My guess is it doesn't really affect performance.

If anyone can sort out a better way to get the watch-list points into / out of a service, it would be most appreciated.

html:

<div class="ma-designer-root" id="9dde861f-e4c7-449a-ad32-586feef95425" style="width: 1366px; height: 768px; position: relative;">

<style>
    .indicator {
        width:30px;
        height:30px;
        border-radius: 50%;
        border: 1px solid;
    }
    .red {
        background: red;
        
    }
    .green {
        background: green;
    }
    .yellow {
        background: yellow;
    }
    .blue {
        background: blue;
    }
    .white {
        background: #dadada;
    }
    .ma-led {
	width: 50px;
	height: 50px;
	border: 1px solid lightgrey;
	border-radius: 50%;
	background: radial-gradient(rgba(0,255,0,0.5),rgba(0,0,0,0.5));
}
</style>

<div class="container">
<div ng-controller = 'WlCtrl'>
    
    <ma-watch-list-get ng-model="indicatorWl.watchlist" parameters="indicatorWl.parameters" on-points-change="pointsObj.indicatorWl.points = $points" id="wl-indicator-id" watch-list-xid="WL_Indicator"></ma-watch-list-get>
    <ma-get-point-value points="pointsObj.indicatorWl.points"></ma-get-point-value>

</div>

<div ng-controller = 'PushCtrl as vm'>

    <push-lamp pid = "DP_ind_H2OT1"></push-lamp>
    <push-lamp pid = "DP_ind_H2OT2"></push-lamp>
    <push-lamp pid = "DP_ind_H2OT3"></push-lamp>
    <push-lamp pid = "DP_ind_H2OMX"></push-lamp>
    
</div>

</div> <!--container-->

define(['angular', 'require'], function (angular, require) {
  'use strict';

  var userModule = angular.module('userModule', ['maUiApp'])

  .controller('WlCtrl', ['$scope','$filter','$timeout','$rootScope', function ($scope,$filter,$timeout,$rootScope) {
    $rootScope.pointsObj = {};
  }])

  .directive('pushLamp', function () {
    return {
      restrict: 'AE',
      template: [ '<div class="indicator {{vm.point.renderedValue}}"',
                  '<br/>{{vm.point.xid}}; {{vm.point.name}}<br/>{{vm.point.tags.indText}}</div>'
      ].join(''), // in pdn, interpolate $scope.point members
      scope: {},
      bindToController: {
        pid: '@'
      },
      controller: 'PushCtrl',
      controllerAs: 'vm'
    };
  })

  .controller('PushCtrl', ['$timeout','$rootScope','$filter', function ($timeout,$rootScope,$filter) {

    var vm = this;
    var dPoint = [];
    vm.point = {};

    $timeout(function () { 
      vm.points = $rootScope.pointsObj.indicatorWl.points;
      dPoint = $filter('filter')(vm.points, {xid:vm.pid}, true);
      vm.point = dPoint[0];
//      console.log ('points from PushCtrl: ',vm.points, vm.pid);
//      console.log ('point from PushCtrl: ',vm.point, vm.pid);
    },1000);

  }])
  return userModule;
}); // define

Thanks.

[CraigWeb]

Hi BobDay

Is there any reason you are not creating components rather than directives? This seems quite complicated. I will see if I can run refractor this into components rather.

[BobDay]

Thanks, @CraigWeb. To answer your question, yes - I'm not an angular programmer by trade or avocation - while I am reasonably accomplished in javascript, and understand angularjs at a high level, I am not particularly practiced in its nuanced use, and have not previously used components.

As well, there is further complication :) here, which I've excluded for 'brevity', which seem to require link function, including further CSS decoration on certain attribute values, and click event which toggles a different point.

[BobDay]

@CraigWeb - if it's helpful, happy to provide a higher level use case for the component, as it were.

[BobDay]

@CraigWeb @Jared-Wiltshire: Whether or not I should be using components, my problem is, clearly, in not understanding how to access watchlist points. I have read dozens of posts here, but I'm not getting it. Just asking for a little further explanation from IAS.

The ONLY way I've been successful in accessing <ma-watch-list-get> points is, per last code above, wrapping it in a $rootScope object, and accessing it through injection - even at that, I'm getting flakey async problems unless I timeout more than one seconds.

What am I doing wrong here?

[Jared Wiltshire]

• Do not use the ng-controller attribute
• Do not use module.controller()
• Don't set properties on the $rootScope
• Prefer .controller({opts}) instead of .directive(function() { return {opts}; })
• Instead of controller: 'PushCtrl' use controller: ['$scope', function($scope) { // do something }] or (my preference):

class PushCtrl {
  static get $$ngIsClass() { return true; }
  static get $inject() { return ['$scope']; }

  constructor($scope) {
    this.$scope = $scope;
  }
}
// then
.controller: PushCtrl // no single quotes

Basically the way you are using the PushCtrl controller in ng-controller then also as the controller for the <push-lamp> directive makes no sense. And <push-lamp points="point" is never going to work as it is the wrong variable name.

[Jared Wiltshire]

Also use the $onChanges() hook of the controller rather than setting a timeout.

[Jared Wiltshire]

Basically I think it boils down to this -

<div ng-init="page = {}"></div>

<ma-watch-list-get ng-model="indicatorWl.watchlist" parameters="indicatorWl.parameters" on-points-change="page.points = $points" id="wl-indicator-id" watch-list-xid="WL_Indicator"></ma-watch-list-get>
<ma-get-point-value points="page.points"></ma-get-point-value>

<div>
    <push-lamp point="page.points | filter:{xid:'DP_ind_H2OT1'}:true | maFirst"></push-lamp>
    <push-lamp point="page.points | filter:{xid:'DP_ind_H2OT2'}:true | maFirst"></push-lamp>
    <push-lamp point="page.points | filter:{xid:'DP_ind_H2OT3'}:true | maFirst"></push-lamp>
    <push-lamp point="page.points | filter:{xid:'DP_ind_H2OMX'}:true | maFirst"></push-lamp>
</div>

User module:

module.component('pushLamp', {
      template: `<div class="indicator" ng-class="$ctrl.point.renderedValue"
        <br/>{{$ctrl.point.xid}}; {{$ctrl.point.name}}<br/>{{$ctrl.point.tags.indText}}</div>`,
      bindings: {
        point: '<'
      }
  });

[BobDay]

Thank you @Jared-Wiltshire. interesting. Ok I'll give it a try. Could you clarify the use of $onChanges() with the controller? would it be in this case

$onChanges($ctrl.point) {...}

?

[Jared Wiltshire]

@bobday

$onChanges(changes) {
  if (changes.point) {
    // point changed
  }
}

Have a read of https://docs.angularjs.org/guide/component for more details.

[BobDay]

aha. thanks. I also have to toggle a different binary point when this element is clicked. Do I need to use the api to do that, or is there a different way to set a point's value (which point's xid can be passed in as an attr of the <push-lamp> or calculated? and, would I just include that function in the component's controller? Thank you - I'm drinking 1.5 from a firehose (and Tom Motto!)

[BobDay]

Thanks very much - that all worked.

<div ng-init="page = {}"></div>

<ma-watch-list-get ng-model="indicatorWl.watchlist" parameters="indicatorWl.parameters" on-points-change="page.points = $points" id="wl-indicator-id" watch-list-xid="WL_Indicator"></ma-watch-list-get>
<ma-get-point-value points="page.points"></ma-get-point-value>

<div class="ma-designer-root" id="30987a71-8c32-4308-a9ae-3fdff231c44b" style="width: 1366px; height: 768px; position: relative;">

<div>
    <push-lamp point="page.points | filter:{xid:'DP_ind_H2OT1'}:true | maFirst"></push-lamp>
    <push-lamp point="page.points | filter:{xid:'DP_ind_H2OT2'}:true | maFirst"></push-lamp>
    <push-lamp point="page.points | filter:{xid:'DP_ind_H2OT3'}:true | maFirst"></push-lamp>
    <push-lamp point="page.points | filter:{xid:'DP_ind_H2OMX'}:true | maFirst"></push-lamp>
</div>
</div>

user module:

define(['angular', 'require'], function (angular, require) {
  'use strict';

  var userModule = angular.module('userModule', ['maUiApp'])

  .component('pushLamp', {
      template: `<div class="indicator" ng-click="$ctrl.pushed(this.$ctrl.point.xid)" ng-class="$ctrl.point.renderedValue"<br/>{{$ctrl.point.xid}}; {{$ctrl.point.name}}<br/>{{$ctrl.point.tags.indText}}</div>`,
      bindings: {
        point: '<'
      },
      controller: function() {
        var self = this;

        self.$onChanges = function (changes) {
          if (changes.point) {
            console.log(self.point.value);
          }
        }

        self.pushed = function(pid) {
          var swXid = 'DP_sw_' + pid.substr(7);
          // toggle point.xid=swXid
          console.log(swXid, ' was clicked');
        }

      }
  });
  return userModule;

}); // define

If I could just get your opinion on preferred way to toggle point... also would appreciate any comments on view syntax/order.

Best.

[Jared Wiltshire]

@bobday said in Help getting ma-watch-list-get points into a controller/service:

If I could just get your opinion on preferred way to toggle point... also would appreciate any comments on view syntax/order.

You should use the maPoint class' toggleValue() method. So in your controller's pushed() method you could just call self.point.toggleValue() or self.point.setValue(true) etc.

However I note that you want to toggle a different point, so I would suggest this-

• Change your point attribute/binding to points and pass the whole points array though
• Locate the two points you wish to use in the $onChanges() method when the points array changes

So bringing it together -

define(['angular', 'require'], function (angular, require) {
  'use strict';

  var userModule = angular.module('userModule', ['maUiApp'])

  .component('pushLamp', {
      template: `<div class="indicator" ng-click="$ctrl.pushed()" ng-class="$ctrl.point.renderedValue">
        {{$ctrl.point.xid}}<br>{{$ctrl.point.name}}<br>{{$ctrl.point.tags.indText}}
      </div>`,
      bindings: {
        points: '<',
        target: '@'
      },
      controller: function() {
        this.$onChanges = function (changes) {
          if (changes.points && Array.isArray(this.points)) {
            this.point = this.points.find(p => p.xid === 'DP_ind_' + this.target);
            this.switchPoint = this.points.find(p => p.xid === 'DP_sw_' + this.target);
          }
        }

        this.pushed = function() {
            if (this.switchPoint) {
                this.switchPoint.toggleValue();
            }
        }

      }
  });
  return userModule;

}); // define

PS the template was not properly formed and you had an extra this. at the front of this expression -
ng-click="$ctrl.pushed(this.$ctrl.point.xid)"

Suggestions -

• Find the points via tags rather than by XIDs (In the past we relied on encoding information into the XID, however with the advent of tags we can do this more easily)
• Use an ES6 class for the controller as per my previous post

[BobDay]

@Jared-Wiltshire - thanks for all that. That works if I put the switchpoints on the watchlist of course - I hadn't thought of that - I was looking for the correct method to get/set a point directly.

I'm still not getting the point.value or any of the other properties added via <ma-point-value> in the bound points variable via $ctrl. Odd, though, if I log this.point, everything shows up in the object - just shows undefined if I try to access this.point.value. Shows up via template though.

I'm stumped...

<div ng-init="page = {}"></div>

<ma-watch-list-get ng-model="indicatorWl.watchlist" parameters="indicatorWl.parameters" on-points-change="page.points = $points" id="wl-indicator-id" watch-list-xid="WL_Indicator"></ma-watch-list-get>
<ma-get-point-value points="page.points"></ma-get-point-value>

<div>
    <push-lamp points="page.points" target="H2OT1"></push-lamp>
    <push-lamp points="page.points" target="H2OT2"></push-lamp>
    ...
</div>

console.log(this.point.xid, this.point.value);
//console: 
DP_ind_H2OT1 undefined
DP_ind_H2OT2 undefined
...

console.log(this.point);

//console:
{id: 164, xid: "DP_ind_H2OT1", name: "T1-Water", enabled: true, deviceName: "buttonTest", …}
chartColour: ""
chartRenderer: {timePeriod: {…}, type: "chartRendererImage"}
convertedValue: 13
dataSourceEditRoles: []
dataSourceId: 33
dataSourceName: "buttonTest"
dataSourceTypeName: "VIRTUAL"
dataSourceXid: "DS_buttonTest"
deviceName: "buttonTest"
enabled: true
id: 164
lastPayload: {xid: "DP_ind_H2OT1", event: "UPDATE", value: {…}, renderedValue: "green", convertedValue: 13, …}
loggingProperties: {loggingType: "INTERVAL", intervalLoggingType: "AVERAGE", intervalLoggingPeriod: {…}, tolerance: 0, discardExtremeValues: false, …}
name: "T1-Water"
originalId: "DP_ind_H2OT1"
plotType: "SPLINE"
pointFolderId: 0
pointLocator: {offset: 0, min: 12, max: 53, period: 0, values: Array(0), …}
preventSetExtremeValues: false
purgeOverride: false
readPermission: ""
renderedColor: "#32cd32"
renderedValue: "green"
rollup: "NONE"
running: true
setPermission: ""
simplifyTarget: 5000
simplifyTolerance: 10
simplifyType: "NONE"
tags: {indText: "H2O", loc: "tank1", xid: "vm.pid", type: "indicator"}
templateXid: null
textRenderer: {useUnitAsSuffix: false, format: "0", rangeValues: Array(6), type: "textRendererRange"}
time: 1574382356912
unit: ""
unreliable: false
useIntegralUnit: false
useRenderedUnit: false
value: 13
xid: "DP_ind_H2OT1"
_textRenderer: {rangeValues: Array(6)}
dataType: (...)
isEnabled: (...)
tagsString: (...)
valueGetterSetter: (...)
__proto__: Object

EDIT Indeed, when looping through this.point (from within the controller),

angular.forEach(this.point, function(value, key){
              console.log(key + ':', value);
            });

none of the point-value properties exist in the point object:

//console
id: 164
xid: DP_ind_H2OT1
name: T1-Water
enabled: true
deviceName: buttonTest
readPermission: 
setPermission: 
pointFolderId: 0
purgeOverride: false
unit: 
useIntegralUnit: false
useRenderedUnit: false
pointLocator: {offset: 0, min: 12, max: 53, period: 0, values: Array(0), …}
chartColour: 
plotType: SPLINE
loggingProperties: {loggingType: "INTERVAL", intervalLoggingType: "AVERAGE", intervalLoggingPeriod: {…}, tolerance: 0, discardExtremeValues: false, …}
textRenderer: {useUnitAsSuffix: false, format: "0", rangeValues: Array(6), type: "textRendererRange"}
chartRenderer: {timePeriod: {…}, type: "chartRendererImage"}
rollup: NONE
simplifyType: NONE
simplifyTolerance: 10
simplifyTarget: 5000
preventSetExtremeValues: false
templateXid: null
dataSourceId: 33
dataSourceXid: DS_buttonTest
dataSourceName: buttonTest
dataSourceTypeName: VIRTUAL
dataSourceEditRoles: []
tags: {indText: "H2O", loc: "tank1", type: "indicator"}
originalId: DP_ind_H2OT1

Assume I have a scoping or async issue, but can't seem to solve it.

I'll follow your suggestions when I have this licked - thank you!

[Jared Wiltshire]

@bobday said in Help getting ma-watch-list-get points into a controller/service:

@Jared-Wiltshire - thanks for all that. That works if I put the switchpoints on the watchlist of course - I hadn't thought of that - I was looking for the correct method to get/set a point directly.

You can definitely still just fetch the datapoint by XID using the maPoint service. But you would also then have to get its current value before setting the new value...

@bobday said in Help getting ma-watch-list-get points into a controller/service:

I'm still not getting the point.value or any of the other properties added via <ma-point-value> in the bound points variable via $ctrl. Odd, though, if I log this.point, everything shows up in the object - just shows undefined if I try to access this.point.value. Shows up via template though.

OK, I'm not following exactly where you are putting the console.log() statements so it is pretty hard for me to say what is happening. The first block of output you posted does have a value property, and it looks like it is from inside the component controller as you used console.log(this.point); if this was in the template it would be $ctrl.point.

Do this -

• Put <pre ng-bind="page.points[0].value"></pre> in your page and verify it has a value
• Put a console.log(this.point.value) inside your component controller's pushed() method and verify it has a value, you probably cant do this in the $onChanges() method as it may not have a value at that time
• Put <pre ng-bind="$ctrl.point.value"></pre> in your component template and verify it has a value

[BobDay]

@Jared-Wiltshire Ok - sorry for the confusion.

<pre ng-bind="page.points[0].value"></pre> renders the value on the page;
console.log(this.point.value) in pushed() renders the value when element is clicked;
<pre ng-bind="$ctrl.point.value"></pre> in template renders the value, (as well as does {{$ctrl.point.value}});

@Jared-Wiltshire said: ...The first block of output you posted does have a value property, and it looks like it is from inside the component controller as you used console.log(this.point);

Yes, however, this from SO:

The output of console.log(anObject) is misleading; the state of the object displayed is only resolved when you expand the > in the console. It is not the state of the object when you console.log'd the object.

...which I learned 3 years ago, but completely forgot!

using console.log(JSON.stringify(this.point) (inside the controller) returns:

{"id":169,"xid":"DP_ind_H2OMX","name":"MX-Water","enabled":true,"deviceName":"buttonTest","readPermission":"","setPermission":"","pointFolderId":0,"purgeOverride":false,"unit":"","useIntegralUnit":false,"useRenderedUnit":false,"pointLocator":{"offset":0,"min":12,"max":53,"period":0,"values":[],"change":10,"startValue":"12","maxChange":0,"volatility":0,"roll":false,"amplitude":0,"phaseShift":0,"attractionPointXid":"DP_ch_current","modelType":"PL.VIRTUAL","changeType":"INCREMENT_ANALOG","dataType":"NUMERIC","settable":false,"relinquishable":false},"chartColour":"","plotType":"SPLINE","loggingProperties":{"loggingType":"INTERVAL","intervalLoggingType":"AVERAGE","intervalLoggingPeriod":{"periods":1,"type":"MINUTES"},"tolerance":0,"discardExtremeValues":false,"overrideIntervalLoggingSamples":false,"cacheSize":1},"textRenderer":{"useUnitAsSuffix":false,"format":"0","rangeValues":[{"from":0,"to":9,"text":"off","colour":null},{"from":10,"to":19,"text":"green","colour":"green"},{"from":20,"to":29,"text":"yellow","colour":"yellow"},{"from":30,"to":39,"text":"red","colour":"red"},{"from":40,"to":49,"text":"blue","colour":"blue"},{"from":50,"to":59,"text":"white","colour":"#cdcdcd"}],"type":"textRendererRange"},"chartRenderer":{"timePeriod":{"periods":1,"type":"DAYS"},"type":"chartRendererImage"},"rollup":"NONE","simplifyType":"NONE","simplifyTolerance":10,"simplifyTarget":5000,"preventSetExtremeValues":false,"templateXid":null,"dataSourceId":33,"dataSourceXid":"DS_buttonTest","dataSourceName":"buttonTest","dataSourceTypeName":"VIRTUAL","dataSourceEditRoles":[],"tags":{"indText":"H2O","loc":"mixer","type":"indicator"},"originalId":"DP_ind_H2OMX"}

clearly without the value, etc. properties.

EDIT Solved - I think ;-). The reason the .value shows up in pushed() is that it is on the object by the time the element is clicked, while not so, immediately after the controller. console.log places a static prototype on the console, but does not evaluate its properties until the triangle is clicked, per the comment above. Putting the log in a $timeout solved the problem. The console.log is a bit of red herring here, as it all works in the template so far...

Apologies for the lack of diligence on my part.

Incidentally, what is the reason for the array check in:
if (changes.points && Array.isArray($ctrl.points))?

[Jared Wiltshire]

Glad you got it sorted. The array check is simply to ensure that you passed the correct object to the attribute, also a check against undefined values which might happen if you set the attribute to a variable name which might not be set initially.

[BobDay]

Thanks for all the help.