Search event handler is no longer tied to aura:id

README.md

@@ -53,10 +53,12 @@ The parent component that contains the lookup must handle the `onSearch` event:
 The event handler should do the following:
 ```js
 lookupSearch : function(component, event, helper) {
+    // Get the lookup component that fired the search event
+    const lookupComponent = event.getSource();
     // Get the Apex server-side action associated with this search (`search` in our samples)
     const serverSearchAction = component.get('c.search');
     // Passes the action to the lookup component by calling the `search` aura method
-    component.find('lookup').search(serverSearchAction);
+    lookupComponent.search(serverSearchAction);
 }
 ```
 
@@ -65,13 +67,15 @@ If you need to pass custom parameters like a record id to the Apex search method
 
 ```js
 lookupSearch : function(component, event, helper) {
+    // Get the lookup component that fired the search event
+    const lookupComponent = event.getSource();
     // Get the SampleLookupController.search server side action
     const serverSearchAction = component.get('c.search');
     // You can pass optional parameters to the search action
     // but you can only use setParam and not setParams to do so
     serverSearchAction.setParam('recordId', component.get('v.recordId'));
     // Passes the action to the Lookup component by calling the search method
-    component.find('lookup').search(serverSearchAction);
+    lookupComponent.search(serverSearchAction);
 },
 ```
 

src-sample/main/default/aura/SampleLookupContainer/SampleLookupContainer.cmp

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
         <div class="slds-form slds-form_stacked slds-m-around_xx-large">
             <lightning:input type="checkbox" label="Is mutli entry lookup" checked="{!v.isMultiEntry}" onchange="{!c.clearSelection}"/>
 
-            <c:Lookup aura:id="lookup" selection="{!v.selection}" onSearch="{!c.lookupSearch}" onSelection="{!c.clearErrorsOnChange}" errors="{!v.errors}" label="Search" placeholder="Search Salesforce" isMultiEntry="{!v.isMultiEntry}"/>
+            <c:Lookup selection="{!v.selection}" onSearch="{!c.lookupSearch}" onSelection="{!c.clearErrorsOnChange}" errors="{!v.errors}" label="Search" placeholder="Search Salesforce" isMultiEntry="{!v.isMultiEntry}"/>
 
             <lightning:button variant="brand" label="Submit" onclick="{!c.onSubmit}" />
         </div>

src-sample/main/default/aura/SampleLookupContainer/SampleLookupContainerController.js

@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
 ({
     lookupSearch : function(component, event, helper) {
+        // Get the lookup component that fired the search event
+        const lookupComponent = event.getSource();
         // Get the SampleLookupController.search server side action
         const serverSearchAction = component.get('c.search');
         // You can pass optional parameters to the search action
         // but you can only use setParam and not setParams to do so
         serverSearchAction.setParam('anOptionalParam', 'not used');
-        // Passes the action to the Lookup component by calling the search method
-        component.find('lookup').search(serverSearchAction);
+        // Pass the action to the lookup component by calling the search method
+        lookupComponent.search(serverSearchAction);
     },
 
     onSubmit: function(component, event, helper) {