如何在SAPUI5中获取视图引用？

Question

Let's say I have my routes defined in my manifest.json like this

rootView: "sap.ui.core.sample.TargetsStandalone.targetsApp.view.App",
        routing: {
            config: {
                targetsClass: "sap.m.routing.Targets",
                viewPath: "sap.ui.core.sample.TargetsStandalone.targetsApp.view",
                controlId: "rootControl",
                controlAggregation: "pages",
                viewType: "XML"
            },
            targets: {
                page1: {
                    viewName: "View1",
                    viewLevel: 0
                },
                page2: {
                    viewName: "View2",
                    viewLevel: 1
                }
            }
        }

Is there a way to retrieve the view references from the component(getOwnerComponent). What I want to do is, on the first controller I want to get a reference of label on "View2". It seems like there is no reference to the second view until I navigate to it. Is there a way to get the a reference to another view and its elements before I navigate to it?

Answer 1

When you navigate to a view, the runtime instantiate it. Before that, there is no view. You can even see in the network trace how the XML file of certain view is downloaded once you navigate to it for the first time, but not before.