mount a component in the action directly?

[zw963]

I have a action/page pair like this:

# some action
class Htmx::Foo < BrowserAction

# ...
html(
            Htmx::FooPage,
            id: university.id.to_s,
            column_name: param_value[0],
            column_value: param_value[1],
            action: "/htmx/foo"
          )
end
# ...

class Htmx::FooPage < NoLayout
  needs id : String
  needs column_name : String
  needs column_value : String
  needs action : String

  def content
    mount(
      ClickEditTD,
      id: id,
      column_value: column_value,
      column_name: column_name,
      action: action,
      tooltip: show_ranking_number(column_value)
    )
  end
end

As you can see, this action used with htmx, the only purpose is, pass all args into view,
and mount the component in the view for render the partial.

Can we mount the component in the action diretly instead?

For this use cases (work with htmx), render use html is really useless, even,

i have to create a new NoLayout(empty layout) for only this purpose, thanks!

[jwoertink]

You can call component from BrowserAction. https://luckyframework.org/guides/http-and-routing/request-and-response#handling-responses

class Htmx::Foo < BrowserAction

# ...
component(
            ClickEditTD,
            id: university.id.to_s,
            column_name: param_value[0],
            column_value: param_value[1],
            action: "/htmx/foo"
          )
end

[zw963]

Hi, is there any reason for use different name for same functionality(mount in page, but component in action)?

[jwoertink]

Yes, because they work differently. component takes a different set of arguments to return HTTP status, and content_type as where mount doesn't. I didn't want to confuse the two.

[zw963]

In fact, i consider if both use component as name, don't confuse anyway (at least for me), one used in view, and another use in action.