Placing a widget inside a custom widget with custom itemView yii2 - php

Question

I want to create a custom widget named 'IssueList' which will extend 'ListView'.
<?php
namespace frontend\components;
use yii\base\Widget;
use yii\widgets\ListView;
class IssueList extends Widget{
public $dataProvider;
public function init(){
parent::init();
}
public function run(){
return ListView::widget([
'dataProvider' => $this->dataProvider,
'itemOptions' => [
'class' => 'item issue-item'
],
'options' => [
'class' => 'issue_list'
],
'itemView' => '_issueListView',
'layout' => '{items}{pager}',
]);
}
}?>
However the ListView has a custom itemView. When rendering the widget I get this error
The view file does not exist:
/var/www/clients/client1/web1/frontend/views/comments/_issueListView.php
Its obviously looking in the wrong directory, how do I change this?

Answer 1

itemView is passed to yii\base\View render() which is responsible for rendering view. So you can change view path how you want, using aliases if needed:
Renders a view.
The view to be rendered can be specified in one of the following
formats:
path alias (e.g. "#app/views/site/index");
absolute path within application (e.g. "//site/index"): the view name starts with double slashes. The actual view file will be looked
for under the view path of the application.
absolute path within current module (e.g. "/site/index"): the view name starts with a single slash. The actual view file will be looked
for under the view path of the current module.
relative view (e.g. "index"): the view name does not start with # or /. The corresponding view file will be looked for under the view path
of the view $context. If $context is not given, it will be looked for
under the directory containing the view currently being rendered
(i.e., this happens when rendering a view within another view).
If you want it to be more dynamic, you can pass closure to itemView with the following signature:
function ($model, $key, $index, $widget) {
...
}
See docs for itemView here.
Besides the API Documentation, rendering views and specifying paths is described in official docs in Views (Rendering Views) section.