How to get ComponentModel of a RuntimeComponent?

Hi,
Trying to parse all page components in runtime from an external. I can get the list of the components in the page by getting the page from RequestContext.
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Collection comps = context.getPage().getComponents();
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But I am not sure how to work with RuntimeComponent to get the ComponentModel. any ideas? any javadocs for this piece?
I am doing this to get the list of DCRs the component has.

also, it looks like .getPage() from type RequestContext is deprecated, anyone knows what it was replaced with? what are we supposed to use to work with a page in runtime?

this is in TS/LS 7.1 Patch 1.

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AlexC

Given RequestContext context:

context.getThisComponent() is the current component

context.getThisComponentModel() is the current component's current model

Crsb

That would get me the ComponentModel for the component that called the code (current component). is there way to get the same data for all components in the page?

AlexC

No, the components are isolated to prevent clobbering and creating difficult to debug problems.

Crsb

That make sense, But now I am curious, what would be a case or cases where you would use this code, because it gets me RuntimeComponent objects in a page, but i don't know how to parse it, I can only get component'name and ID from it.
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Collection comps = context.getPage().getComponents();
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AlexC

RuntimeComponent is all you can get from that, the actual component tree is cached and not available to the component being executed. As a general rule, components cannot access other components and if you find some transient way of doing it, it may cause intermittent problems and is not supported.