I have a data driven Angular application. I have a toggle component which I pass in a toggled state. My issue is that the two way data binding does not seem to work unless i pass in the toggle boolean as an object. Is there a way to get this to work without using an EventEmitter or passing the variable in as an object. This is to be a reusable component and the application is heavily data driven so passing the value in as an object in not an option. My code is....
toggle.html
<input type="checkbox" [(ngModel)]="toggled" [id]="toggleId" name="check"/>
toggle.component.ts
import { Component, Input, EventEmitter, Output } from '@angular/core';
@Component({
moduleId: module.id,
selector: 'toggle-switch',
templateUrl: 'toggle-switch.component.html',
styleUrls: ['toggle-switch.component.css']
})
export class ToggleSwitchComponent {
@Input() toggleId: string;
@Input() toggled: boolean;
}
parent.component.html
<toggle-switch toggleId="toggle-1" [(toggled)]="nongenericObject.toggled"></toggle-switch>
For [(toggled)]="..."
to work you need
@Input() toggled: boolean;
@Output() toggledChange: EventEmitter<boolean> = new EventEmitter<boolean>();
changeValue() {
this.toggled = !(this.toggled);
this.toggledChange.emit(this.toggled);
}
See also Two-way binding
[UPDATE] - 25 June 2019
From @Mitch's comment below:
It's worth noting that the @Output
name must be the same as the @Input
name, but with Change
on the end. You can't call it onToggle
or something. It's a syntax convention.
Although the question has more than 2 years old I want to contribute my 5 cents...
It isn't a problem about Angular, its about how Javascript works... Simple variables (number, string, boolean, etc) are passed by value whereas complex ones (objects, arrays) are passed by reference:
You can read more about this in Kyle Simpson´s series You dont know js:
https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/master/types%20%26%20grammar/ch2.md#value-vs-reference
So, you can use an @Input() object variable to share scope between components without need to use emitters, observers and whatever similar.
// In toggle component you define your Input as an config object
@Input() vm: Object = {};
// In the Component that uses toggle componet you pass an object where you define all needed needed variables as properties from that object:
config: Object = {
model: 'whateverValue',
id: 'whateverId'
};
<input type="checkbox" [vm]="config" name="check"/>
This way you can modify all object properties and you get same value in both components because they share same reference.