Rerendering lightning:recordViewForm OR single component

Question

I have a lightning component similar to:

<aura:component>
    <aura:handler name="myevent" action="{!c.myRerender}" />

    <lightning:recordViewForm recordId="{!v.recordId}" objectApiName="MyObj__c" />
</aura:component>

How can I get my <lightning:recordViewform> to reload? Usinge.force:refreshView` is not a viable answer as it reloads other things as well.

Answer 1

Because the recordEditForm stores the object in the DOM it will not automatically update unless it is re-pulled from server. To do this just set the recordId attribute of the recordEditForm to null and then back to the correct record Id and it will grab the updated version of the record

AURA

<aura:attribute name="recordId" type="Id"/>
<aura:handler name="myevent" action="{!c.myRerender}" />
<lightning:recordViewForm recordId="{!v.recordId}" objectApiName="MyObj__c">

JS

myRerender : function(cmp, event, helper){
    var recId = cmp.get('v.recordId');
    cmp.set('v.recordId', null);
    cmp.set('v.recordId', recId);
}