[Q]How to get instance of the Invoking Controller

[eluser]vlad_ci[/eluser]
I plan to have a class essentially for every 'function'
in a controller

Then in the controller I will store some 'static' data that I want to share
amongst the URL handing classes.

(90% of the work on the CI side is to handle JSON requests form my AJAX client,
so I do not need to use the viewes)


One thing I cannot figure out -- is how to obtain the
a reference to the Controller that CI instanciated for a particular request

(since the function-instanciated class would not 'know' the instance it was called from)

I understand that I can pass a reference to the Controller into every class constructor,
but I would like not to do that (because it appears that the Controller instance will
be 'live' anyway for the length of the request)

Code:

class Start extends Controller
{

function hello($name)
{
  $handler=handlerFactory->get("hello");



try
{
  //how to get the instance of the 'Start' class within $handler?
  $handler->init($name);
  $handler->output();
}
catch (HandlerException $e)
{
}
catch (CIException $e)
{
}

}

thank you in advance