Passing parameters / objects to a custom component?

Hi Scott,

Sorry for the late follow up. I was forwarded to your post by someone else that had the same question. I figured I'd reply here for the benefit of others.

If you’re adding the component to a page via the page editor in Studio, then I believe you’re fairly restricted in what types of values you can use… pretty much just strings as you discovered.

If you’re adding the component to another component via the <@component> macro, then you have a bit more flexibility. With the macro, you can pass other types and objects as well. For example:

<#assign community=rest("/").community />
<@component id="paramtest" param=community />

Then in your paramtest component, you could do something like:

${env.context.component.getParameter('param').id}

to give you the id of the community.

Here's a better example more a long the lines of what you were talking about. This example shows passing some threads:

<#assign threads=rest("/threads/recent").threads />
<@component id="paramtest" param=threads />

Then in your paramtest component:

<#assign threads=env.context.component.getParameter('param') />
<#list threads.thread as thread>
${thread.messages.topic.subject}<br/>
</#list>