Unable to access published properties of dynamically created kinds in expected way

solonvt

I am encountering strange behavior when trying to access the published properties of dynamically created kinds. In the code below this.$.testComp.a evaluates to undefined while this.$.testComp.published.a evaluates to "A" as expected. This fiddle demonstrates the issue: http://jsfiddle.net/pwnosaurus/yNyn4/ What am I doing wrong here?

enyo.kind({
    name: "test",
    components:[
        {kind: enyo.Button, content:"foo", ontap: "doIt"},
    ],
    doIt: function(){
        //instantiate a new component
        this.createComponent({
            name: "testComp",
            content: "bar",
            published: {
                a: "A",
           }
        });
        this.render();
        this.log(this.$.testComp.a);            //logs undefined
        this.log(this.$.testComp.published.a);  //logs A
    },
});

foo = new test();
foo.renderInto(document.body);

theryanjduffy

you only used the published hash when you define a kind using enyo.kind(). If you're setting a property when creating an instance of a kind, it's just set on the hash passed to createComponent (like name and content in your example above)

sugardave

Remember, for published properties you use the framework-generated setters and getters, so this should be correct:

this.$.testComp.getA();

theryanjduffy

Agreed when the published hash is defined during enyo.kind() since that's when those accessors are generated.

Here's an expanded example based on your fiddle

http://jsfiddle.net/yNyn4/1/