[Bugfix beta] Component.prototype.layout is now settable.

Previously setting `layout` would replace the underlying CP. This would prevent `layoutName` from working when a component had an existing template.

packages/ember-views/lib/views/view.js

@@ -763,14 +763,20 @@ var View = CoreView.extend(
 
     @property layout
     @type Function
-  */
-  layout: computed('layoutName', function(key) {
-    var layoutName = get(this, 'layoutName');
-    var layout = this.templateForName(layoutName, 'layout');
+    */
+  layout: computed('layoutName', {
+    get(key) {
+      var layoutName = get(this, 'layoutName');
+      var layout = this.templateForName(layoutName, 'layout');
+
+      Ember.assert("You specified the layoutName " + layoutName + " for " + this + ", but it did not exist.", !layoutName || !!layout);
 
-    Ember.assert("You specified the layoutName " + layoutName + " for " + this + ", but it did not exist.", !layoutName || !!layout);
+      return layout || get(this, 'defaultLayout');
+    },
 
-    return layout || get(this, 'defaultLayout');
+    set(key, value) {
+      return value;
+    }
   }),
 
   _yield(context, options, morph) {

packages/ember-views/tests/views/view/layout_test.js

@@ -53,6 +53,59 @@ QUnit.test("should call the function of the associated layout", function() {
   equal(layoutCalled, 1, "layout is called when layout is present");
 });
 
+QUnit.test("changing layoutName after setting layoutName continous to work", function() {
+  var layoutCalled = 0;
+  var otherLayoutCalled = 0;
+
+  registry.register('template:layout', function() { layoutCalled++; });
+  registry.register('template:other-layout', function() { otherLayoutCalled++; });
+
+  view = EmberView.create({
+    container: container,
+    layoutName: 'layout'
+  });
+
+  run(view, 'createElement');
+  equal(layoutCalled, 1, "layout is called when layout is present");
+  equal(otherLayoutCalled, 0, "otherLayout is not yet called");
+
+  run(() => {
+    view.set('layoutName', 'other-layout');
+    view.rerender();
+  });
+
+  equal(layoutCalled, 1, "layout is called when layout is present");
+  equal(otherLayoutCalled, 1, "otherLayoutis called when layoutName changes, and explicit rerender occurs");
+});
+
+QUnit.test("changing layoutName after setting layout CP continous to work", function() {
+  var layoutCalled = 0;
+  var otherLayoutCalled = 0;
+  function otherLayout() {
+    otherLayoutCalled++;
+  }
+
+  registry.register('template:other-layout', otherLayout);
+
+  view = EmberView.create({
+    container: container,
+    layout() {
+      layoutCalled++;
+    }
+  });
+
+  run(view, 'createElement');
+  run(() => {
+    view.set('layoutName', 'other-layout');
+    view.rerender();
+  });
+
+  equal(view.get('layout'), otherLayout);
+
+  equal(layoutCalled, 1, "layout is called when layout is present");
+  equal(otherLayoutCalled, 1, "otherLayoutis called when layoutName changes, and explicit rerender occurs");
+});
+
 QUnit.test("should call the function of the associated template with itself as the context", function() {
   registry.register('template:testTemplate', function(dataSource) {
     return "<h1 id='twas-called'>template was called for " + get(dataSource, 'personName') + "</h1>";