The widget.autosearch function now understands queries of the form

!var!name (as well as !param!name and !path!number)

Allows the application to set the query into a named variable in
whatever way it wishes, and have MKWS obtain it from that variable.

Fixes bug MKWS-170.

diff --git a/src/mkws-widgets.js b/src/mkws-widgets.js
index 517850b..c677853 100644 (file)
--- a/src/mkws-widgets.js
+++ b/src/mkws-widgets.js
@@ -83,6 +83,13 @@ widget.autosearch = function(widget) {
                if (!query) {
                    alert("This page has a MasterKey widget that needs a query specified by the path-component " + index);
                }
+            } else if (query.match(/^!var!/)) {
+               var name = query.replace(/^!var!/, '');
+               query = window[name]; // It's ridiculous that this works
+               widget.log("obtained query '" + query + "' from variable '" + name + "'");
+               if (!query) {
+                   alert("This page has a MasterKey widget that needs a query specified by the '" + name + "' variable");
+               }
            }
 
            var sortOrder = widget.config.sort;