Accessing Ember-CLI Nested Controllers

Question

This is my directory structure:

controllers/
---- restaurant/
    ----items.js
---- index.js
---- restaurant.js

And my router declaration:

Answer 1

As of Ember-CLI v0.2.1 + Ember v1.10.0 (could work for earlier versions; but I haven't tried), this is how you do it:

export default Ember.ObjectController.extend({
    needs: ["restaurant/items"],
    ...

To access actions, you'd do this:

actions: {
    myAction: function(arg1, arg2) {
      this.get('controllers.restaurant/item').send('someItemActionYouDefine', arg1, arg2);
    }
}

Answer 2

I don't think you're Items controller needs to be in the subfolder restaurant. Move it up a level and see if that fixes the issue.