Salesforce Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for Salesforce administrators, implementation experts, developers and anybody in-between. It only takes a minute to sign up.
Sign up to join this community
To access data within the a Lightning view, is it necessary to write client controller code that polls a server-side controller?
This makes sense based on my experience in other languages. But I was hoping / thought I read that somehow the immediate object's data - ex. on a record page - would be injected into the view.
If this component is being used in the Lightning Experience, you want the component to implement force:hasRecordId, which will give you the the object's id which you can use to query the other related information that you need. The only other field that can be populated in that manner is the name field, which you can get by having your component implement force:hasSObjectName.
<aura:component implements="flexipage:availableForRecordHome,force:hasRecordId,force:hasSObjectName">
<aura:attribute name="recordId" type="String" />
<aura:attribute name="sObjectName" type="String" />
The Lightning Components Developers' Guide has a section on this topic.
