How to open a widget from a controller programmatically ?

Question

Opening a widget from a placeholder can be done using PanelManager's showPanel method. However what if the widget is located in a controller ?

So far the only solution I found is to call the controller's method which open a given widget :

var controller = WidgetManager.getInstance().getWidgetsByName('MyThemeController');
controller.openWidget(widgetConfig);

The problem with this solution is that not every theme controller implement such method.

RobertScheitlin__GISP · Accepted Answer

Mathieu,

The only thing I can think of is you will have to develop a function that has a switch case based on the theme, if you are looking for a function that can open a widget irrelevant of the theme in use.