Lightning Components Developer Guide

What is the Lightning Component Framework?
Quick Start
Creating Components
Using Components
Communicating with Events
Creating Apps
Debugging
Fixing Performance Warnings
Reference
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Using the Action Type

An Aura.Action is a reference to an action in the framework. You can pass an Aura.Action around so the receiving component can execute the action in its client-side controller.

Use $A.enqueueAction() to add client-side or server-side controller actions to the queue of actions to be executed.

This sample uses Aura.Action.

listRow.cmp

The onclick attribute has type="Aura.Action".

subListRow.cmp

The subListRow component extends the listRow component and sets the value for the onclick attribute in listRow to {!c.openRecord}, which is a reference to an action in the client-side controller for subListRow.cmp. The action is executed when a user clicks the bullet associated with <li onclick="{!v.onclick}"> in listRow.