Send actions to components

@ofridagan wrote:

Up until Ember 1.12 I have been using the following for sending actions to components: (taken from: http://blog.planetargon.com/entries/2015/4/8/helpful-pattern-for-sending-actions-to-your-ember-components)

MyComponent = Ember.Component.extend({
  _register: function() {
    this.set('register-as', this);
  }).on('init')
});

Then, I can use it in templates:

{{my-component register-as=eventsListener}}

and somewhere in a controller for example...

this.get('eventsListener').send('myAction');

In Ember 1.13 I'm getting strange results. I couldn't figured out exactly what's happening, but eventsListener sometimes does get updated.

I also tried different "lifecycle hooks" like: 'didInitAttrs', etc.. with same results. 'didInsertElement' does work, (with warning) but it feels very wrong.

What is a good way to achieve this? Is this a bad pattern?

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