Ember transitionToRoute cleanly in a component without sendAction

Question

How can transitionToRoute be called cleanly from within an Ember component?

It works with injecting a controller into the component and calling the cont

Answer 1

You can use container to get access to any needed part of application. To get application controller :

this.container.lookup('controller:application')

But what about structure of application - components should generate events - so my opinion it's better to use sendAction. Cause in future you can get situation, when you need to filter such behavior ( for example ) or other application-specific logic before transition