From 67ff6551117a76e335c28e8e68ec4fb249a3083b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt Westcott <matt@west.co.tt>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2023 00:39:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add mechanism for retrieving an existing widget instance from
 ChooserFactory

---
 client/src/components/ChooserWidget/index.js | 14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/client/src/components/ChooserWidget/index.js b/client/src/components/ChooserWidget/index.js
index f5a0bd5092..b8fe5aaa81 100644
--- a/client/src/components/ChooserWidget/index.js
+++ b/client/src/components/ChooserWidget/index.js
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ export class Chooser {
         this.clear();
       });
     }
+
+    // attach a reference to this widget object onto the root element of the chooser
+    this.chooserElement.widget = this;
   }
 
   initHTMLElements(id) {
@@ -72,6 +75,10 @@ export class Chooser {
     }
   }
 
+  setStateFromModalData(data) {
+    this.setState(data);
+  }
+
   clear() {
     this.setState(null);
   }
@@ -127,7 +134,7 @@ export class Chooser {
       );
     }
     this.modal.open(this.getModalOptions(), (result) => {
-      this.setState(result);
+      this.setStateFromModalData(result);
     });
   }
 }
@@ -170,4 +177,9 @@ export class ChooserFactory {
     const options = { ...this.getModalOptions(), ...customOptions };
     this.modal.open(options, callback);
   }
+
+  getById(id) {
+    /* retrieve the widget object corresponding to the given HTML ID */
+    return document.getElementById(`${id}-chooser`).widget;
+  }
 }