Instead of an Aura.Action attribute, you could use to register an onclick event in the child component. You’d have to define the event and create an action in the child’s controller to fire the event. This event-based approach requires a few extra steps but it’s more in line with standard practices for communicating between components.
Action has some known limitations:
- It is discouraged to use component.set() with the Aura.Action attribute types.
- It is discouraged to use $A.enqueueAction() in the child component to enqueue the action passed to the Aura.Action attribute.
If you want to build some more dynamic, or to overcome these limitations, the recommended way would be to fire an event from the child component that is handled by the parent component to perform the required action using aura:registerEvent
AuraActionEvent.evt
< aura:event type="COMPONENT" description="Event to Execute Aura.Action" / >
<aura:component >
<aura:registerEvent name="customEvent" type="c:AuraActionEvent" />
<lightning:button label="Aura Action Event" onclick="{!c.fireAuraAction}"/>
</aura:component>
AuraActionChildController.js
({
fireAuraAction : function(component, event, helper) {
var compEvent = component.getEvent("customEvent");
compEvent.fire();
}
})
AuraActionParent.cmp
<aura:component >
<aura:handler name="customEvent" event="c:AuraActionEvent" action="{!c.handleComponentEvent}"/>
<c:AuraActionChild aura:id="auraActionButton" />
</aura:component>
AuraActionParentController.js
({
handleComponentEvent : function(component, event, helper). {
var buttonClicked = event.getSource().getLocalId();
if(buttonClicked == 'auraActionButton')
alert('Aura Action using Event Concept');
}
})
As you can see in the example, in this way you will need to write some extra code, however, we have a finer degree of control, as we could for example add other event handlers dynamically or pass more information to the parent using event attributes. Also, we are more inline with standard practices for components communication.
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