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The Controller's Manifest

This topic applies to the Front-End framework.

Any controller may include a manifest property. A manifest is used to specify dependencies or additional assets used by a controller.

There are two categories of items in a manifest the require and the include items. A require item must be loaded for a controller to be available and include items are loaded asynchronously without affecting the controller.

The manifest is a plain object property that you add to your controller with items in either a require or include property.

Items in a manifest are fetched only once, regardless if other controllers request the same item.

Example of a manifest property in the app controller:

self.app = {
	manifest: {
		require: [
			{controller: "loginController", url: "../a/js/controller.login.js", wait: true},
		]
	},
	initialize: function(){
		//app object was loaded as the app controller
	},
	onAppStart: function(){
		console.log("App is running...");
	}
};

Items in your manifest

An item in the manifest may be a:

Controller Item

This item fetches and installs a controller.

Key	Description
controller	a string with the name of the global object that holds the controller
url	a string with the url of the file with the controller js code.
wait	a boolean that indicates if this item is loaded synchronously.

Asset Item

This item fetches and makes available a css or js file.

Key	Description
url	a string with the url of the file.
wait	a boolean that indicates if this item is loaded synchronously.

Related Topics

Controllers