Emberjs controller target points to the wrong route

Question

I have a student route and created a student controller for that route. In the route I have an action that I tried to trigger from the route using this.get('target') which for some unknown reason returns the index route which is the wrong route. So calling the action throws an error that says nothing handled the action. This is the jsfiddle

App = Ember.Application.create();

App.Router.map(function(){ 
    this.route('student');
});

App.StudentRoute = Ember.Route.extend({
  
  actions: {
    
    callMe: function(){
      alert('hello');
    }
  }
});

App.StudentController = Ember.ObjectController.extend({
  
  actions: {
    sendtoRoute: function(){
      
      console.log('the route is:', this.get('target') );
    }
  } 
});

<script type="text/x-handlebars">
     {{render 'student'}}
    {{outlet}}
  </script>
  
  <script type="text/x-handlebars" id='student'>
     <button {{action 'sendtoRoute'}} > hit me </buton>
  </script>

<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.1.min.js"></script>
<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/handlebars.js/1.0.0/handlebars.js"></script>
  
<script src="http://builds.emberjs.com/release/ember.js"></script>
  
 <script src="http://builds.emberjs.com/beta/ember-data.js"></script>
  
  

Answer 1

Actually, controller.get('target') points to the right context in your case. From Ember's docs on Ember.Controller.target:

It can also be set after a controller has been instantiated, for instance when using the render helper in a template, or when a controller is used as an itemController. In most cases the target property will automatically be set to the logical consumer of actions for the controller.

{{render 'student'}} is create StudentView with template 'student' and connects it to a new instance of StudentController, then render result to the parent's template (index in your case). It doesn't create/transit to StudentRoute, so there is no active instance of StudentRoute while client in IndexRoute. Thus, StudentController.target is pointing to parent context - ApplicationController.