I'm working with Reactive Forms and I'm trying to pass my form down to child components, but I'm running into the error above. Initially at the top level of the form I was using a FormArray to hold my form and that was working fine before I tried passing it down to the child components. Thanks to this post I now know that the top level of a form should be a FormGroup and the FormArray should be a child of the FormGroup.
So now I am nesting my FormArray inside of a FormGroup and I'm getting the error above. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong? Below in the relevant code.
// Parent component.ts
ngOnInit() {
if (!!this.rows) {
this.tableForm = new FormArray([]);
this.rows.forEach((row) => {
this.rowGroup = new FormGroup({})
this.columns.forEach(column => {
this.rowGroup.addControl(column.key, new FormControl(row[column.key]));
});
this.tableForm.push(this.rowGroup);
})
this.tableGroup = new FormGroup({
rows: new FormControl(this.tableForm)
})
}
}
// Parent HTML
<section
*ngIf="!!modal"
class="modal__mask">
<section
class="modal__container"
#carousel
[ngStyle]="{'left': start + 'px'}"
(window:resize)="onResize($event)"
[formGroup]="tableGroup">
<div
*ngFor='let row of selectedRows; let i = index'
class="modal modal__large"
[formArrayName]="rows">
<div
[formGroupName]="i"
[ngClass]="{'opacity': modalPage !== i}">
<div class="modal__header modal__header--large">
<h6>Edit Employee Details</h6>
</div>
<div class="u-flex u-wrap">
<div
class="u-flex modal__body"
style="width: 50%"
*ngFor="let column of columns">
<div
*ngIf="column.label"
class="input__wrapper"
[ngClass]="{'input__wrapper--inline': layout === 'horizontal'}">
<z-input
*ngIf="column.label"
class="u-maxX"
[group]="tableGroup"
[config]="column">
</z-input>
<!-- <div>
<label
class="input__label">
<p class="t-bold t-data">{{column.label}}</p>
</label>
<div class="z-input__default">
<input
class="input u-maxX"
[formControlName]="column.key"
[value]="row[column.key]">
</div>
</div> -->
</div>
</div>
<section class="modal__footer u-fillRemaining">
<div class="u-flex">
<button
class="button button--medium"
(click)="nextSelectedRow()">
<div class="button__content">
<i
class="icon icon--medium"
*ngIf="!!icon">
{{icon}}
</i>
<span>Skip</span>
</div>
</button>
</div>
<div class="u-flex">
<button
class="button button--low"
(click)="reset(row, i)">
<div class="button__content">
<i
class="icon icon--medium"
*ngIf="!!icon">
{{icon}}
</i>
<span>Reset</span>
</div>
</button>
<button
class="button button--low"
(click)="saveChanges(row, i)">
<div class="button__content">
<i
class="icon icon--medium"
*ngIf="!!icon">
{{icon}}
</i>
<span>Save Changes</span>
</div>
</button>
</div>
</section>
</div>
</div>
</div>
// Child component.ts
@Input() config;
@Input() group: FormGroup;
@Input() view: string;
@Input() layout: string;
// Child HTML
<div
class="input__wrapper"
[ngClass]="{'input__wrapper--inline': layout === 'horizontal'}"
[formGroup]="group"
[ngSwitch]="config.type">
<label
class="input__label"
*ngIf="!!config.label">
<p class="t-bold t-data">{{config.label}}</p>
</label>
<z-select
*ngSwitchCase="'select'"
[config]="config"
[group]="group"
[view]="view"
gridColumn="1 / 5">
</z-select>
<div class="z-input__default">
<input
*ngSwitchDefault
class="input u-maxX"
[formControlName]="config.key"
[attr.type]="config.type"
[attr.placeholder]="config.placeholder">
</div>