is there a way to access page-specific dv from a global function?

[vitaly]

I have some custom functions (currently in customJS, moving into custom plugin).
I hate that I have to pass dv to anything that needs to access Dataview.
is there a way to get the page's dv through obsidian api. e.g. is it stored on page object, or in the index or somewhere?

[blacksmithgu]

The dv object is transient and is re-created on every invocation. I guess I could add a function to the global API which gives you an API localised to a specific file (like app.plugins.plugins.dataview.api.withFile("path/to/file")).

[vitaly]

Actually.... looking at the code, it would be really nice to be able to customize PREAMBLE

[vitaly]

or better yet, for plugins to be able to add to it.

[AB1908]

@vitaly I don't quite understand but you shouldn't need to wrap anything at all. DataviewAPI is a global object that you should be able to access and not need to pass in.

[vitaly]

@AB1908 this will only work for data querying, but not for displaying the data. need access to the outer html container of the current dataviewjs block

[AB1908]

Oh so you want to render stuff outside the plugin codeblocks itself then. You may want to use the React plugin that lets you define components or even write a thin wrapper around the DOM to get that going.