How to get a reference on a view instance in ember / emberjs from static javascript?

Question

I have seen a lot of questions about that on the web (SOF and Google) but so far no clear answer to the issue.

I have a usual Ember application with various views

Answer 1

This is my personal approach to this problem. I am using the "didInsertElement" of Ember.View to register the View in a central place. This works well for singleton views. For non-singleton views, one would have to develop a more sophisticated ViewRegistry.

Ember Part

var App = Ember.Application.create({
    viewRegistry : {
        applicationView : null
    },
});

App.ApplicationView = Ember.View.extend({
    templateName : 'application',
    didInsertElement : function(){
        App.set("viewRegistry.applicationView", this);
    }
});

In MyUtils.js:

var myUtils = myUtils || {
    myMethod: function() {
        App.get("viewRegistry.applicationView").myInstanceMethod();
    }
};