JQuery - Widget Public Methods

Question

If I create a JQuery widget (code example below), and then define a \"public\" method, is there any other way to call the method other than using the following form?

Answer 1

lets say you have list, list2, and superList... let's call "publicMethod" on for each of them:

$.fn.callWidgetMethod = function(method) {
  var $this = this,
      args = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments, 1);

  // loop though the data and check each piece of data to
  // see if it has the method
  $.each(this.data(), function(key, val) {
    if ($.isFunction(val[method])) {
      $this[key].apply($this, args);

      // break out of the loop
      return false;
    }
  });
}

$("#some-element").list();
$("#another-element").list2();
$("#hydrogen").superList();

$("#some-element").callWidgetMethod("publicMethod");
$("#another-element").callWidgetMethod("publicMethod");
$("#hydrogen").callWidgetMethod("publicMethod");