Set TinyMCE editor option after Initialization

Question

How to set TinyMCE templates option after initialization? Is it possible in TinyMCE 4?

I've seen in a source code of Template plugin that this option is read every time user clicks on 'Insert template' button. So I think it could pick up a new value on every click.

ps. A possible solution could be to use URL in templates, but let's pretend it's not.

Answer 1

UPDATE: In TinyMCE v4.3.3 Templates plugin was updated, so templates setting can be a function that gets a callback that can provide templates. Good news, you don't have to patch plugin =)

Initialization:

$scope.tinyMceOptions = {
    plugins: 'template',
    ...
    templates: function(callback) {
        // Here you can do whatever you want with callback;
        // for example, you can provide different arguments on every click
        callback($scope.variableTemplates);
    }

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(For previous TinyMCE versions) My solution is to patch Template plugin that I can specify a function as templates provider. Here's what I've added to createTemplateList() function:

else if (typeof templateList === 'function') {
    callback(templateList());
}

And during initialization I specify a function in templates:

$scope.tinyMceOptions = {
    plugins: 'template',
    ...
    templates: function() {
        return $scope.variableTemplates;
    }