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<a href="index.html" class="logo"><span>○</span> Mithril</a>
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<a href="getting-started.html">Guide</a>
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<a href="mithril.html">API</a>
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<a href="http://lhorie.github.io/mithril-blog">Learn</a>
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<h2 id="api">API (v0.1.26)</h2>
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<h3 id="core">Core</h3>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="mithril.html" title="A utility to create virtual elements">m</a></li>
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<li><a href="mithril.module.html" title="Initializes a controller/view pair">m.module</a></li>
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<li><a href="mithril.prop.html" title="A getter-setter utility">m.prop</a></li>
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<li><a href="mithril.withAttr.html" title="A event handler factory utility">m.withAttr</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h3 id="routing">Routing</h3>
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<li><a href="mithril.route.html" title="A routing utility">m.route</a>
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<li><a href="mithril.route.html#defining-routes" title="Defines what routes exist">m.route(rootElement, defaultRoute, routes)</a></li>
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<li><a href="mithril.route.html#redirecting" title="Redirects to a route">m.route(path, params)</a></li>
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<li><a href="mithril.route.html#reading-current-route" title="Read the current route">m.route()</a></li>
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<li><a href="mithril.route.html#mode-abstraction" title="Routing mode abstraction">m.route(element)</a></li>
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<li><a href="mithril.route.html#mode" title="Whether routing uses location hash, querystring or pathname">m.route.mode</a></li>
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<li><a href="mithril.route.html#param" title="Read an argument from a parameterized route">m.route.param</a></li>
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<h3 id="data">Data</h3>
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<li><a href="mithril.request.html" title="A high-level AJAX utility">m.request</a></li>
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<li><a href="mithril.deferred.html" title="A Promise factory">m.deferred</a></li>
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<li><a href="mithril.sync.html" title="A Promise aggregator">m.sync</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h3 id="html">HTML</h3>
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<li><a href="mithril.trust.html" title="A method to unescape HTML">m.trust</a></li>
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<h3 id="rendering">Rendering</h3>
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<li><a href="mithril.render.html" title="The lowest level rendering method">m.render</a></li>
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<li><a href="mithril.redraw.html" title="A high-level explicit rendering method">m.redraw</a>
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<li><a href="mithril.redraw.html#strategy" title="A flag that drives the rendering strategy for the next redraw">m.redraw.strategy(strategy)</a></li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li><a href="mithril.computation.html" title="Utilities to integrate asynchronous contexts to the rendering system">m.startComputation / m.endComputation</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h3 id="data">Testing</h3>
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<li><a href="mithril.deps.html" title="The dependency injector">m.deps</a></li>
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<h2 id="archive">History</h2>
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<li><a href="roadmap.html">Roadmap</a></li>
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<li><a href="change-log.html">Change log</a></li>
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<h2 id="m-prop">m.prop</h2>
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<li><a href="#usage">Usage</a></li>
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<li><a href="#third-party-promise-library-support">Third-party promise library support</a></li>
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<li><a href="#serializing-getter-setters">Serializing getter-setters</a></li>
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<li><a href="#signature">Signature</a></li>
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<p>This is a getter-setter factory utility. It returns a function that stores information.</p>
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<p>Note that modifying the values of <code>m.prop</code> getter-setters does not trigger redrawing. Instead, Mithril's redrawing system relies on <a href="mithril.computation.html"><code>m.startComputation</code> and <code>m.endComputation</code></a>. These functions are internally called by Mithril when you initialize a module via <a href="mithril.module.html"><code>m.module</code></a> or <a href="mithril.route.html"><code>m.route</code></a>, and when you trigger event handlers that were created within templates with <a href="mithril.html"><code>m()</code></a>. </p>
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<h3 id="usage">Usage</h3>
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<pre><code class="lang-javascript">//define a getter-setter with initial value `John`
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var name = m.prop("John");
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//read the value
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var a = name(); //a == "John"
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//set the value to `Mary`
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name("Mary"); //Mary
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//read the value
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var b = name(); //b == "Mary"
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</code></pre>
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<p>It can be used in conjunction with <a href="mithril.withAttr.html"><code>m.withAttr</code></a> to implement data binding in the view-to-model direction and to provide uniform data access for model entity properties.</p>
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<pre><code class="lang-javascript">//a contrived example of bi-directional data binding
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var user = {
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model: function(name) {
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this.name = m.prop(name);
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},
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controller: function() {
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this.user = new user.model("John Doe");
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},
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view: function(controller) {
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m.render("body", [
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m("input", {onchange: m.withAttr("value", controller.user.name), value: controller.user.name()})
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]);
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}
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};
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</code></pre>
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<p>In the example above, the usage of <code>m.prop</code> allows the developer to change the implementation of the user name getter/setter without the need for code changes in the controller and view.</p>
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<p><code>m.prop</code> can also be used in conjunction with <a href="mithril.request.html"><code>m.request</code></a> and <a href="mithril.deferred.html"><code>m.deferred</code></a> to bind data on completion of an asynchronous operation.</p>
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<pre><code class="lang-javascript">var users = m.prop([]);
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var error = m.prop("");
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m.request({method: "GET", url: "/users"})
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.then(users, error); //on success, `users` will be populated, otherwise `error` will be populated
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//assuming the response contains the following data: `[{name: "John"}, {name: "Mary"}]`
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//then when resolved (e.g. in a view), the `users` getter-setter will contain a list of User instances
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//i.e. users()[0].name() == "John"
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</code></pre>
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<hr>
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<h3 id="third-party-promise-library-support">Third-party promise library support</h3>
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<p>If a promise is passed into <code>m.prop()</code>, a Mithril promise is returned. Mithril promises are also getter-setter functions, which are populated with the resolved value if the promise is fulfilled successfully.</p>
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<p>Until the promise is resolved, the value of the prop will resolve to <code>undefined</code></p>
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<p>Here's an example using the <a href="https://github.com/kriskowal/q">Q</a> promise library:</p>
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<pre><code class="lang-javascript">var deferred = Q.defer()
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var users = m.prop(deferred.promise)
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users() // undefined
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deferred.resolve("Hello")
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users() // Hello
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users.then(function(value) {
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console.log(value) //Hello
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})
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</code></pre>
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<hr>
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<h3 id="serializing-getter-setters">Serializing getter-setters</h3>
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<p>Getter-setters are JSON-serializable:</p>
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<pre><code class="lang-javascript">var data = {foo: m.prop("bar")};
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JSON.stringify(data); // '{"foo": "bar"}'
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</code></pre>
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<p>This allows getter-setters to be passed directly as parameters to <a href="mithril.request.html"><code>m.request</code></a>, for example.</p>
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<hr>
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<h3 id="signature">Signature</h3>
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<p><a href="how-to-read-signatures.html">How to read signatures</a></p>
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<pre><code class="lang-clike">GetterSetter prop([any initialValue])
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where:
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GetterSetter :: any getterSetter([any value])
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</code></pre>
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<ul>
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<li><p><strong>any initialValue</strong> (optional)</p>
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<p>An initialization value. If not provided, the value of the getter-setter's internal store defaults to <code>undefined</code>.</p>
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<li><p><strong>returns any getterSetter([any value])</strong></p>
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<p>A getter-setter method.</p>
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<li><p><strong>any value</strong> (optional)</p>
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<p>If provided, it updates the getter-setter's internal store to the provided value.</p>
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<p>If not provided, return the current internally stored value.</p>
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<li><p><strong>returns any value</strong></p>
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<p>This method always returns the value of the internal store, regardless of whether it was updated or not.</p>
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Released under the <a href="http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT" target="_blank">MIT license</a>
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