How to transition to route in Ember from global context?

Question

I am integrating a chrome extension with an ember app. I have some chrome extension code in my app.js file:

window.sendToExtension = (message, callback) => {
  chrome.runtime.sendMessage(extensionId, message, (response) => {
    console.log('got response from extension!!', response)
    if (response.path) {
      //Here I need to tell the ember app the transition to the given path
    }
  })
}

this refers to window so I can't just call this.transitionTo . How can I transition to the route name the extension has told me to?

Answer 1

I figured it out!! All I had to do was add a beforeModel hook to the application route that did window.applicationRouteInstance = this and then I can access this globally, such as in my extension messaging code, to do applicationRouteInstance.transitionTo(response.path)

Also there's the new App.visit api coming in 2.3