Possible to get events about ember-cli-selectize HOT 5 CLOSED

@Frozenfire92 I'm afraid I didn't fully understand your use case.

However, here are my thoughts on providing support for selectize events:
some of the events selectize exposes are "data-related". This may make sense for simple "jquery-based" apps. But here, we are using selectize as a view layer.
What I mean is that you should be able to handle these data related events outside of ember-selectize/selectize.
Ember-selectize will reflect whatever is in your array and selection, that is its main purpose.

Please try to make your use case more clear, ideally using an example JSBin: http://emberjs.jsbin.com/

I'm here to help!

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Ok, I was afraid I wasn't being very clear.

Essentially I have an organization with may people. However the people aren't directly part of the organization's model in the db. Rather they are related based on the people's organization key in their own entry in the db. Essentially I want to use selectize to add/remove people from the organization. However when removing I need to know about it so I can update that person's organization key on their model.

Does that clear things up?

Thank you!

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Ok, it is clear now. You're using a multiple select, right?
Adding and removing a person from that select, sets or removes a specific organization id, right?

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Here is what I would do.

Controller:

exports default Ember.Controller.extend({
  selectedPeople:[],
  setObservers:function(){
    this.get('selectedPeople').addArrayObserver(this,{
      willChange: 'selectedPeopleWillChange',
      didChange: 'selectedPeopleDidChange'
    });
  }.on('init'),
  //Will trigger when one or more people are removed
  selectedPeopleWillChange:function(array, idx, removedCount){
    for (var i = idx; i < idx + removedCount; i++) {
      //access removed elements here through `array.objectAt(i);`
      //unset your organization key here
    }
  },
  //Will trigger when one or more people are added
  selectedPeopleDidChange:function(array, idx, removedCount, addedCount){
    for (var i = idx; i < idx + addedCount; i++) {
      //access added elements here through `array.objectAt(i);`
      //set your organization key here
    }
  },
});

And its template:

{{ember-selectize
  content=controller.people
  optionValuePath="content.id"
  optionLabelPath="content.name"
  selection=model.selectedPeople
  multiple=true
  placeholder="Select people" }}

I think this is the kind of logic that belongs in the controller. We could use selectize's events, yes. But imagine that someday you want to revert back to vanilla selects or any other selectbox library?
This code would become untouched.

I like to think focused on the data. The view must just do its job and represent that.
I shouldn't need the view to know when my data changes.

Let me know if this worked for you.

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Ok, it is clear now. You're using a multiple select, right?
Adding and removing a person from that select, sets or removes a specific organization id, right?

Correct and correct.

I won't have a chance to work on the code for a few days but I will let you know how it goes. Thank you very much for your help 😄

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