I have a parent and a child. In the parent am passing 3 variables as props to the child. In the Child I am using the watch() to look for varaible changes. When the child is created for the 1st time the watch works as expected but when the data from the props in updated then DOM of the child is not updated. The watch function which is looking for data change of the variable is not running at all.
Here is my code. Its a bit lengthy so please bear with it.
Parentcomponent.vue
<template>
<div>
<button type="button" v-on:click="LoadCatalog()">Click me!! </button>
<div v-if="displayCategoryList" class="row">
<h3>Select Category Men</h3>
<select v-model="menCategory" v-on:change="passDataToChild()">
<option v-for="item in categoriesfordisplay.men" v-bind:key="item">
{{ item }}
</option>
</select>
<h3>Select Category Women</h3>
<select v-model="WomenCategory" v-on:change="passDataToChild()">
<option v-for="item in categoriesfordisplay.women" v-bind:key="item">
{{ item }}
</option>
</select>
</div>
<div v-if="displayData" class="row">
<div v-for="item in data_to_show_on_mainpage" v-bind:key="item" >
<button v-on:click="newfunction(item.cat,item.gender)" >
<img v-bind:src="item.data.image"> </img>
<p >{{ item.cat }}</p>
</button>
</div>
</div>
<category-items v-if="displayCategoryData" v-bind:gender="gender" v-bind:catsgory="catsgory" v-bind:catlog="catlog" ></category-items>
</div>
</template>
<script>
import axios from 'axios'
import CategoryItems from './CategoryItems'
export default {
name: 'GetCategoryItemsAndDisplayOne',
props: ['categoriesfordisplay','ismainpage', 'catalogselected'],
components:{
CategoryItems,
},
data(){
return {
IsMainPage_1 : "",
data_to_show_on_mainpage : [],
cat :[],
displayData : true,
menCategory : "",
WomenCategory : "",
displayCategoryList: true,
displayCategoryData : false,
CategoryFromImage : "",
//dataSentToChild : {}
gender : "",
catsgory : "",
catlog : ""
}
},
methods:{
passDataToChild(){
if(this.menCategory != ""){
this.catsgory = this.menCategory
this.gender = "men"
this.catlog = this.catalogselected
this.menCategory = ""
}else if(this.WomenCategory != ""){
this.catsgory = this.WomenCategory
this.gender = "women"
this.catlog = this.catalogselected
this.WomenCategory = ""
}
this.displayData = false
this.displayCategoryData = true
},
changevalue(){
this.data_to_show_on_mainpage = []
},
CatlogService(catlog_name,category,gender,mainpage){
let url = "http://localhost:5000/xyz/" + (this.catalogselected).replace(/'/g,"%27") +"/api/"+ (gender) + "/catalogvis/" + (category) +"/items"
axios.get(encodeURI(url)).then((resp)=>{
var jsonData = {"data": resp.data.response.Results.results[0] , "cat": category , "gender" : gender}
)
this.data_to_show_on_mainpage.push(jsonData)
})
.catch(err => {
console.log("we got an error the url is " + url)
console.log(err);
})
},
GetItemsToShowonMainPage(){
this.changevalue()
if(this.categoriesfordisplay.men_for_display.length>0){
for(let i =0;i<this.categoriesfordisplay.men_for_display.length;i++){
let category = this.categoriesfordisplay.men_for_display[i].replace(/"/g,"%27");
console.log(category)
this.CatlogService(this.catalogselected,category,'men',this.ismainpage)
}
}
if(this.categoriesfordisplay.women_for_display.length>0){
for(let i = 0;i<this.categoriesfordisplay.women_for_display.length;i++){
let category = this.categoriesfordisplay.women_for_display[i].replace(/"/g,"");
this.CatlogService(this.catalogselected,category,'women',this.ismainpage)
}
}
},
LoadCatalog(){
this.displayCategoryData = false
this.GetItemsToShowonMainPage()
this.displayData = true
this.displayCategoryList = true
},
newfunction(Cats,gender){
this.displayCategoryData = true
this.displayData = false
this.catsgory = Cats
this.gender = gender
this.catlog = this.catalogselected
}
},
created(){
this.GetItemsToShowonMainPage()
}
}
</script>
<style>
</style>
The Child component CategoryItems.vue is below
<template>
<div>
<h4>{{ genders }}</h4>
<h4>{{ category }}</h4>
<h4>{{ catalogue }}</h4>
</div>
</template>
<script>
export default{
name : 'CategoryItems',
props : ['gender','catsgory','catlog'],
data(){
return {
genders : "",
category : "",
catalogue : "",
}
},
watch : {
category : function(){
this.GetProducts()
}
},
methods:{
GetProducts(){
this.genders = this.gender
this.category = this.catsgory
this.catalogue = this.catlog
}
},
created(){
this.genders = this.gender
this.category = this.catsgory
this.catalogue = this.catlog
}
}
</script>
<style>
</style>
As You can see whenever the category variable in the child changes the function GetProducts should run but it is not happening. It is executed only when the child component is created.
Where I am going wrong with my logic. Thanks
