Pass events back from Module

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Having thought about this a bit more, let me amend my request slightly.

A module has three ways to communicate with the parent app:

  1. Inputs
    a. Data - date passed into the component to be consumed somehow.
    b. Query - tell the parent to requery some data on the parent.
  2. Outputs - these turn into module properties on the parent side.

There is no proper event mechanism. You can use Query Inputs to run a js query on the parent that acts as an event handler. Or you can set a Query JSON w/SQL watch on an Output property which triggers a query.

What we need is a third category, Events, as a first class citizen. The parent would then provide all of the standard event handler options. Queries would still just get a list of queries to fire as it does now.

Edit: Oh and there should be a method for passing back parameters. I assume it would be a similar method for passing parameters when triggering a query from js.

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