Reference

Description

The Reference class allows you to store a reference to a component and a locator to find it.

Important points

• It is used by References to store registered component references.

Constructors

Creates a new instance of the reference object and assigns its values.

public constructor(locator: any, component: any)

• locator: any - locator to find the reference.
• component: any - reference to component.

Instance methods

getComponent

Gets the stored component reference.

public getComponent(): any

• returns: any - component’s references.

getLocator

Gets the stored component locator.

public getLocator(): any

• returns: any - component’s locator.

match

Matches locator to this reference locator. Descriptors are matched using the equal method. All other locator types are matched using direct comparison.

public match(locator: any): boolean

• locator: any - locator to match.
• returns: boolean - true if locators are matching and false it they don’t.