I am building a widget that will create a map based on Google Maps API. I am having a hard time to use the context of the widget inside the event listener. Here is my code:
(function( $ ) {$.widget( "al.Mappable", {
options: {
lat: null,
lng: null,
bounds: null,
verbose: true,
showMap: true,
googleMap: {
zoom: 15,
mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP
}
},
googleMap: null,
self: null,
_create: function() {
this.debug("create widget");
self: this,
this._setupMap = $.proxy(this._setupMap, this);
if (this.options.showMap){
this._setupMap();
}
},
_setupMap: function(){
this.debug("init map");
// debugger;
if(this.options.lat && this.options.lng){
this.options.googleMap.center = this._latLng(this.options);
}
else{
//kaboom address
this.options.lat = 38.945596;
this.options.lng = -77.064773;
this.options.googleMap.center = this._latLng(this.options);
}
this.googleMap = new google.maps.Map(this.element[0], this.options.googleMap);
this._addUserLocation(38.945596,-77.064773);
google.maps.event.addListenerOnce(this.googleMap, 'tilesloaded',this._refreshMap(this.googleMap) );
},
_refreshMap: function(gmap){
bounds = gmap.getBounds()
this.options.bounds = bounds
dataOptions ={
searching: true,
keyword: getParam('keyword'),
playspace_type: getParam('playspace_type'),
location_type: getParam('location_type'),
bounds: bounds.toUrlValue()
}
// note the 'dummy event' in the callback since ujs sends the event as the first argument
// $.ajax "/playspaces/search.js",
// context: this
// data: dataOptions
// dataType: 'json'
// success: (data,status,xhr) -> @afterResultsAjax('dummyevent',data,status,xhr, false)
},
_latLng: function(opt){
return new google.maps.LatLng(opt.lat,opt.lng);
},
});
}( jQuery ));
When i do ("#map").mappable(), i am getting and error because bounds are undefined and toUrlValue() is throwing an error. the explianation is that bounds = gmap.getBounds() is triggered before that the event tileloaded is triggered.
I have tried to do this:
google.maps.event.addListenerOnce(this.googleMap, 'tilesloaded', function(){
console.log(this);
});
and i am getting the googleMap object back instead of the widget object. I have tried:
google.maps.event.addListenerOnce(this.googleMap, 'tilesloaded', function(){
console.log(self);
});
and i am getting the window object.
Question:
How can i get the context of the widget in the eventListener callback function? Is there another way to wait for the map to load and then refresh it with the markers?