jQuery call function from click event and without event with parameters

Question

I have a situation where I want to call a function from document ready and on click.

var load_report = function(params) {
    report_name = params.data.report_name;
    // code continues
}

I can call it on click -

$("#report-" + report_name).click({'report_name': report_name}, load_report);

However, I also want to call if from $(document).ready() if certain constraints are met -

    $(document).ready(function() {
        if (($.url().param()) && ($.url().param('report_name'))) {
            report_name = $.url().param('report_name');
            // Call load_report with report_name parameter
        }
    }

I have tried - load_report({'report_name': report_name}), $.call({'report_name': report_name}, load_report), $({'report_name': report_name}, load_report); and none of them work.

load_report({'report_name': report_name}) looked the simplest and most promising, but fails on params.data.report_name because params.data is undefined. Basically, all I need to do here is convert the dictionary into a format that can be interpreted the same way as it is with the .click() event data.

My question is - how do I call load_report function with my parameters without binding it to an event?

Answer 1

You'll have to remember the data key

load_report({data : {'report_name': report_name}});

or just trigger the event

$("#report-" + report_name).trigger('click');