IronRouter extending data option on route controller

Question

Is there a way to extend the data option when using IronRouter and the RouteController, It seems like it gets overridden when I inherit from a super co

Answer 1

I use something similar to this in a production app:

Router.route('/test/:testparam', {
    name: 'test',
    controller: 'ChildController'
});

ParentController = RouteController.extend({
    data: function() {
        console.log('child params: ', this.params);
        return {
            foo: 'bar'
        };
    }
});

ChildController = ParentController.extend({
    data: function() {
        var data = ChildController.__super__.data.call(this);
        console.log(data);
        return data;
    }
});

Using __super__ seems to do the trick!
You can than use _.extend to extend the data (http://underscorejs.org/#extend)