I know how to raise an event with the EventEmitter. I can also attach a method to be called if I have a component like this:
<component-with-event (myevent)="mymethod($event)" />
When I have a component like this, everything works great. I moved some logic into a service and I need to raise an event from inside the Service. What I did was this:
export class MyService {
myevent: EventEmitter = new EventEmitter();
someMethodThatWillRaiseEvent() {
this.myevent.next({data: 'fun'});
}
}
I have a component that needs to update some value based on this event but i can't seem to make it work. What I tried was this:
//Annotations...
export class MyComponent {
constructor(myService: MyService) {
//myService is injected properly and i already use methods/shared data on this.
myService.myevent.on(... // 'on' is not a method <-- not working
myService.myevent.subscribe(.. // subscribe is not a method <-- not working
}
}
How do i make MyComponent subscribe to the event when the service that raises it is not a component?
I'm on On 2.0.0-alpha.28
EDIT: Modified my "working example" to actually work, so focus can be put on the not-working part ;)
Example code:
http://plnkr.co/edit/m1x62WoCHpKtx0uLNsIv
Update: I have found a better/proper way to solve this problem using a BehaviorSubject or an Observable rather than an EventEmitter. Please see this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/35568924/215945
Also, the Angular docs now have a cookbook example that uses a Subject.
Original/outdated/wrong answer: again, don't use an EventEmitter in a service. That is an anti-pattern.
Using beta.1... NavService contains the EventEmiter. Component Navigation emits events via the service, and component ObservingComponent subscribes to the events.
nav.service.ts
import {EventEmitter} from 'angular2/core';
export class NavService {
navchange: EventEmitter<number> = new EventEmitter();
constructor() {}
emitNavChangeEvent(number) {
this.navchange.emit(number);
}
getNavChangeEmitter() {
return this.navchange;
}
}
components.ts
import {Component} from 'angular2/core';
import {NavService} from '../services/NavService';
#Component({
selector: 'obs-comp',
template: `obs component, item: {{item}}`
})
export class ObservingComponent {
item: number = 0;
subscription: any;
constructor(private navService:NavService) {}
ngOnInit() {
this.subscription = this.navService.getNavChangeEmitter()
.subscribe(item => this.selectedNavItem(item));
}
selectedNavItem(item: number) {
this.item = item;
}
ngOnDestroy() {
this.subscription.unsubscribe();
}
}
#Component({
selector: 'my-nav',
template:`
<div class="nav-item" (click)="selectedNavItem(1)">nav 1 (click me)</div>
<div class="nav-item" (click)="selectedNavItem(2)">nav 2 (click me)</div>
`,
})
export class Navigation {
item = 1;
constructor(private navService:NavService) {}
selectedNavItem(item: number) {
console.log('selected nav item ' + item);
this.navService.emitNavChangeEvent(item);
}
}
Plunker
Using alpha 28, I accomplished programmatically subscribing to event emitters by way of the eventEmitter.toRx().subscribe(..) method. As it is not intuitive, it may perhaps change in a future release.
Sometime quick fix of library cause that added event import like
import { EventEmitter } from 'events';
You must change it with core libray using subscribe
import { EventEmitter } from '#angular/core';
Related
i am trying to understand the callback ngOnChanges() so i created the below posted example. but at the compile time despite the interface Post
has values for its attributes title and content respectively, however, i do not receive any logs from ngOnChanges
please let me know how to use correctly
app.component.ts:
import { Component, OnInit, OnChanges, SimpleChanges,Output, EventEmitter } from '#angular/core';
export interface Post {
title:string;
content:string;
}
#Component({
selector: 'app-post-create',
templateUrl: './post-create.component.html',
styleUrls: ['./post-create.component.css']
})
export class PostCreateComponent implements OnInit {
#Output() post : Post;
#Output() onPostSubmittedEvtEmitter: EventEmitter<Post> = new EventEmitter<Post>();
constructor() {
this.post = {} as Post;
}
ngOnInit(): void {
}
ngOnChanges(changes: SimpleChanges) {
for (let changedProperty in changes) {
console.log("ngOnChanges->: changes[changedProperty].previousValue: " + changes[changedProperty].previousValue);
console.log("ngOnChanges->: changes[changedProperty].currentValue):" + changes[changedProperty].currentValue);
}
}
onSubmitPost(post: Post) {
this.post = {
title: this.post.title,
content: this.post.content
};
this.onPostSubmittedEvtEmitter.emit(this.post);
console.log("onSubmitPost->: post.title: " + post.title);
console.log("onSubmitPost->: post.content:" + post.content);
}
}
update 05.04.2021
as recommended i have added the ngOnChanges to observe changes in a prpoperty annotated with Input decorator as follows:
#Input() postsToAddToList: Post[] = [];
now, when I compile the code i add some values, i receive the following logs from ngOnChanges :
ngOnChanges->: changes[changedProperty].previousValue: undefined
post-list.component.ts:20 ngOnChanges->: changes[changedProperty].currentValue):
but the problem is when i keep adding more values, i do not receive any logs from the ngOnChanges
please let me know why despite i keep adding more values that result in changing the contents of the object that is decorated with #Input??!
post-list.component.ts:
import { Component, Input,OnInit, OnChanges, SimpleChanges,Output, EventEmitter } from '#angular/core';
import { Post } from '../post-create/post-create.component';
#Component({
selector: 'app-post-list',
templateUrl: './post-list.component.html',
styleUrls: ['./post-list.component.css']
})
export class PostListComponent implements OnInit {
constructor() {}
#Input() postsToAddToList: Post[] = [];
ngOnInit(): void {}
ngOnChanges(changes: SimpleChanges) {
for (let changedProperty in changes) {
console.log("ngOnChanges->: changes[changedProperty].previousValue: " + changes[changedProperty].previousValue);
console.log("ngOnChanges->: changes[changedProperty].currentValue):" + changes[changedProperty].currentValue);
}
}
}
ngOnChanges() only gets called when component's inputs changed from the parent component(fields that marked with #Input decorator). But you have #Output fields. The idea of ngOnChanges() is to react to changes that were done by the parent.
Following your business logic, you can handle whatever you want straight in onSubmitPost.
Answer for the update 05.04.2021
You add values to the array itself. Since the link to the array hasn't changed, ngOnChanges() does not catch these changes. But if you put new link to the component and do the following in the parent:
component:
this.yourArrInTheParent = [...this.yourArrInTheParent];
template:
<app-post-lis [postsToAddToList]="yourArrInTheParent"></app-post-lis>
Now value that you passed to the input changed and you will see the changes in the ngOnChanges(). The same goes for objects if you change object's property, angular won't see it as a change in ngOnChanges() since it only detects changes in #Input() values.
In order to catch those changes, you can use ngDoCheck hook. But it is power consuming, bear in mind not to perform heavy calculations there.
I think you are doing in correct way. Its just you missing to implement onChanges class. In latest Angular versions it straight throws error but in older version it does not.
Try this.
export class PostListComponent implements OnInit, OnChanges{
constructor() {}
#Input() postsToAddToList: Post[] = [];
ngOnInit(): void {}
ngOnChanges(changes: SimpleChanges) {
for (let changedProperty in changes) {
console.log("ngOnChanges->: changes[changedProperty].previousValue: " +
changes[changedProperty].previousValue);
console.log("ngOnChanges->: changes[changedProperty].currentValue):" +
changes[changedProperty].currentValue);
}
}
}
As already pointed out by #Vadzim Lisakovich
ngOnChanges() only gets called when component's inputs changed from
the parent component
Now, the thing is that the input is compared using === operator i.e. shallow comparison. If you add something to the post array, the reference to the array stays the same thus no event is triggered.
To fix that you can implement ngDoCheck() or replace the reference.
Here is a very similar question to yours:
Angular2 change detection: ngOnChanges not firing for nested object
And of cause the documentation:
https://angular.io/guide/lifecycle-hooks#docheck
Lets say I have 2 components, aComponent and bComponent. I have them redered inside the AppComponent
<app-a>
<app-b>
And I have service myService that has method .trigger().
What I want is to show only aComponent, but whenever I call myService.trigger() from another part of code, it would switch and show bComponent. That's perfect implementation that I can't reach.
Question is: Is it possible to do so? And if not what is the best closest solution.
The only working solution I got:
I added .trigger() inside AppComponent
export class AppComponent {
title = 'spa';
show: boolean = false;
trigger() {
this.show = true;
}
}
And rendered components like so:
<div *ngIf="!show; else show">
<app-a></app-a>
</div>
<ng-template #show>
<app-b></app-b>
</ng-template>
Then whenever I want to trigger switching, I add instance of the app to the constructor and call it's method:
export class AnotherComponent implements OnInit {
constructor(
private app: AppComponent
) {}
ngOnInit(): void {
this.app.trigger();
}
}
Even though it's working pretty good, I myself see that it's a dirty solution. Components are not intended to be used inside another components, but Services are.
You can use Subject from rxjs library for that.
In your service file:
// a-service.service.ts
import { Injectable } from '#angular/core';
import { Subject } from 'rxjs';
#Injectable({ providedIn: 'root' })
export class AService {
private subject = new Subject<any>();
trigger(state: boolean) {
this.subject.next(state);
}
getTrigger(): Subject<any> {
return this.subject;
}
}
and in your AppComponent:
// app.component.ts
...
private show = false;
constructor (private aService: AService) { }
ngOnInit() {
this.aService.getTrigger().subscribe(state => {
this.show = state;
});
}
the template can be as you provided - it's fine:
<div *ngIf="!show; else show">
<app-a></app-a>
</div>
<ng-template #show>
<app-b></app-b>
</ng-template>
And if you want to trigger from another component, you do it like this:
// another.component.ts
...
constructor (private aService: AService) { }
ngOnInit() {
this.aService.trigger(true);
}
One way to communicate between different components and services which aren't directly related, is via 'Subjects'.
You can try to create a subject and pass in values to it from myService.trigger(). And you can subscribe to that subject from whichever component you want to access that trigger data.
Disclaimer: I'm super new to both Angular and RXJS.
I have a simple form from which I'm trying to create an observable. This will look for submit events and update some value in the component. However, I'm getting a this._subscribe is not a function error.
<form (submit)='submitForm()'>
<button type='submit'>Submit</button>
</form>
My component
import { Component, OnInit } from '#angular/core';
import { Observable } from 'rxjs';
import UtilsHelperService from '../services/utils-helper.service';
#Component({...stuffs...})
export class HomeComponent implements OnInit {
formSubmit: Observable<any>;
counter = 0;
constructor() { }
ngOnInit() {
const form = document.getElementsByTagName('form')[0];
this.formSubmit = Observable.create(form, 'submit');
}
submitForm() {
this.formSubmit.subscribe(
UtilsHelperService.formSubmitObserver(this.counter));
}
}
And my utils-helper.service.ts helper class...
import {Injectable} from '#angular/core';
#Injectable({
providedIn: 'root'
})
export default class UtilsHelperService {
static formSubmitObserver(counter) {
return {
next: (value) => {
counter++;
},
error: err => console.log(err),
complete: () => console.log('complete')
}
}
}
I see that the formSubmit observer is created fine.
I have the UtilsHelperService.formSubmitObserver method that returns an observer object with the 3 necessary methods.
So, I'm not sure whether if it's the Angular stuffs I'm doing wrong (which I guess not) or its the RXjs stuff. Thank you for your time reading it :)
Take a look at FormGroup. Its 'valueChanges' property is an observable you can subscribe to.
FormGroup formGroup;
// populate your formGroup (https://angular.io/guide/reactive-forms#step-1-creating-a-formgroup-instance)
formGroup.valueChanges.subscribe(// do whatever you want);
There were 2 things I did to solve the issue:
Using fromEvent instead of Observable.create to create observable from submit event. This way the subscription didn't threw error (investigating why..)
Updating component property from service won't work as the services are singletons. You either have to use eventemitter or use AngularJS styles dot rule. For this case, I added all the helper logic in the component itself.
ngOnInit() {
const form = document.getElementsByTagName('form')[0];
this.formSubmit = fromEvent(form, 'submit');
this.formSubmit.subscribe((submitEvent) => {
this.counter++;
this.formSubmitted.emit(this.counter);
})
}
With this I can remove the submitForm method from the component and template and the helper method from the service.
I'm currently getting started with Angular 2 and got stuck on something probably pretty simple:
I have a shared service chatMessageService.ts:
import { Injectable } from '#angular/core';
import { BehaviorSubject } from 'rxjs/BehaviorSubject';
#Injectable()
export class ChatMessageService {
private messageList = new BehaviorSubject<string>("");
currentMessage = this.messageList.asObservable();
constructor() {
}
public addMessage(msg:string) {
this.messageList.next(msg) }
}
The service is imported by two components, one that calls it's addMessage function to add the message to the Observable and then my chatComponent.ts looks like this (shortened fpr convinience):
import { Component } from '#angular/core';
import { Message } from './message';
import { ChatMessageService } from './chatMessage.service';
#Component({
selector: 'app-chat',
templateUrl: './chat.component.html',
styleUrls: ['./chat.component.css']
})
export class ChatComponent {
conversation: Message[] = [];
//.....
constructor(private chatMessageService: ChatMessageService) { }
addUserMessage(message) {
this.conversation.push({
content: message
});
}
ngOnInit() {
this.chatMessageService.currentMessage.subscribe(message => {this.addUserMessage(message);} )
}
}
My crisis arises at that last subscripion part. When I replace
{this.addUserMessage(message);}
with
{console.log(message)}
the message is printed out perfectly fine. If I call the addUserMessage()-method manually it works just fine. But when I call the method right there, with the message as argument, nothing happens. The method isn't even executed?
Thankful for your insights!
It looks like you need some buffering in the service.
Instead of BehaviorSubject, try
private messageList = new ReplaySubject<string>(10);
See working example: Plunker
I've html structure like this :
Parent Component where both Comp1 and Comp2 resides :
now in comp1 I've some elements if that changes then I've to reflect values in comp2 but there's no connection between them.
Comp1 :
import { Component } from '#angular/core';
import { Comp2Component } from 'comp2.component';
#Component({
selector: 'comp1',
templateUrl: './comp1.html'
})
export class Comp1Component {
sortBy(value)
{
this.FeedSortBy = value;
this.SortByLabel = this.SortByLabelList[value];
Comp2Component.filterActivities();
}
}
Comp2
import { Component } from '#angular/core';
#Component({
selector: 'comp2',
templateUrl: './comp2.html'
})
export class Comp2Component {
filterActivities()
{
//call this function on comp1 sort function call so it will update value of comp2
}
}
As per Rahul and Sajit's answer I try using with EventEmitter and change my structure to parent child :
In my parent component I use :
import { Component,EventEmitter, Input, Output, OnInit } from '#angular/core';
import { FeedsComponent } from '../feeds/feeds.component';
#Component({
selector: 'my-desk',
styleUrls: ['../../assets/css/style.min.css'],
templateUrl: './my-desk.component.html'
})
export class MyDeskComponent {
#Output() FeedSortBy = new EventEmitter<string>();
sortBy(value)
{
this.FeedSortBy.emit(value);
}
}
and in my child component I use :
import { Component, OnInit, Input, Output } from '#angular/core';
import { DataService } from '../data.service';
declare var $: any;
#Component({
selector: 'feeds',
styleUrls: ['../../assets/css/style.min.css'],
templateUrl: './feeds.component.html'
})
export class FeedsComponent {
constructor(private dataService:DataService)
{
}
#Input() FeedSortBy:number = 2;
}
Child component HTML :
{{FeedSortBy}}
But it always output 2 it doesn't change can I get any trigger as well to know if value is change so I call function there
You cannot do that, There are two possible ways you could achieve this,
use angular service to pass the data between two components
use Event Emitters to pass the value among the components.
You can call method of another component from a different component but it will not update the value of the calling component without some tweaking like
Event Emitters if they have a parent child relationship or Shared Services or using ngrx redux pattern
How to Call a different component method be like
Component1
test(){
console.log("Test");
}
Component 2
working(){
let component = new Component1();
component.test();
}
Now to update the value in component 2 you might have to use any of the above.
For Event Emitters follow this link
For Shared services follow this link
For ngrx follow this link