Registrering components as blocks

[damsfx]

From the Static Page plugin, it's possible to register any component as a snippet and use it in Static Pages.
Would such a thing be possible to register plugin components as blocks?

The components and blocks look pretty similar to me:

Component	Block
componentDetails()	block's name and description
defineProperties()	block's fields
associated partial	block's twig part

I haven't yet found a way to avoid duplicating a component's logic in an equivalent block.

I've try to add my component dynamically from the block's PHP section :

    public function onStart()
    {
        $this->addComponent('Acme\MyPlugin\Components\AwesomeComponent', 'aComponent', [
            'type' => $this->data['type']
        ]);
    }

and the render it from twig part :

{% component 'aComponent' %}

But it doesn't be rendered, maybe I'm missing the simple way to do it.

[damsfx]

For now I got it working this way :

# ... My block definition
==
<?php
    public function onStart()
    {
        $controller = new Cms\Classes\Controller;
        $page = new \Cms\Classes\Page();

        // Set page properties
        $page->url = '/fake-page';
        $page->title = 'Dynamic fake page';
        $page->layout = null;

        // Add page component
        $page->settings['components'] = [
            'AwesomeComponent' => [
                'alias' => 'aComponent',
                'type' => $this->data['type'],
            ]
        ];

        // Set markup
        $page->markup = '{% component "aComponent" %}';

        $this['content'] = $controller->runPage($page);
    }
?>
==
{{ content | raw }}

The only things that need a particular attention :
I had to create a specific “empty” layout for the component styles ( $this->addCss('...') in component init method ) to be loaded.

[damsfx]

The above code only works on my local server.
The onRun() component's method is well executed, because all my variables are initialized, but no HTML code is return by the component.

I ended up making a dedicated page with just the component I need, combined with an empty layout.
And rather than trying to dynamically build the page in the PHP section of my block, I call the created page, and it works.

$controller = new Cms\Classes\Controller;
$router = new \Cms\Classes\Router(\Cms\Classes\Theme::getActiveTheme());
$page = $router->findByUrl('/internal-get-component/'. $this->data['type']);

$page->settings['components']['AwesomeComponent']['type'] = $this->data['type'];

$this['content'] = $controller->runPage($page);

This works but as a physical page is needed, it can't be fully dynamic.