Is there a way I can pass variables to templates in Angular2?
Let's say I have the following code:
<div *ngFor="foo in foos">
<ng-container *ngTemplateOutlet="inner"</ng-container>
</div>
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<ng-template #inner>
{{ foo.name }}
</ng-template>
How can I get the template to print the name
of foo
?
You should do like this:
<div *ngFor="foo in foos">
<ng-container *ngTemplateOutlet="inner; context:foo"></ng-container>
</div>
<ng-template #inner let-name="name">
{{ name }}
</ng-template>
But this doesn't work if the template is located in another component.
How do you pass a context object in such scenario?
I added
@Input() itemTemplate: TemplateRef<any>;
in component where I will use it, and in template of this component I write something like this:
<ng-container *ngTemplateOutlet="itemTemplate; context: item"></ng-container>
Code of template from outside component:
<ng-template #dataRendererTpl let-data="data">
<div class="data">Hello, {{data.name}}</div>
Just pass link to dataRendererTpl as @Input() property to component in which you need it
in my case I needed the object to remain intact because I had some kind of recursion, this worked
<div *ngFor="foo in foos">
<ng-container *ngTemplateOutlet="inner; context: {foo : foo}"></ng-container>
</div>
<ng-template #inner let-foo="foo">
{{ foo.attributexy }}
</ng-template>
In the case you want to send the whole iterable object to the template, you can pass the array into the context as follow:
<ng-container *ngTemplateOutlet="inner; context:foos"></ng-container>
<ng-template #inner let-foos="values()">
<div *ngFor="foo in foos">
{{ foo.name }}
</div>
</ng-template>