Hi I am new to angular2 and typescript. I am loading components dynamically and I was wondering if there is a way to declare my components using a service in the module's "declarations" and "entryComponents".
Using typescript, I am able to achieve it by doing the following:
import { ComponentLoaderService } from './../../services/component-loader.service';
let componentsToLoad = ComponentLoaderService.getComponents();
@NgModule({
declarations: [ componentsToLoad ],
entryComponents: [ componentsToLoad ],
})
export class testModule {}
This actually works, but only if I have compiled and the server is running first.
If, I try to recompile and run it, I get this constant error:
"Error encountered resolving symbol values statically. Function calls are not supported. Consider replacing the function or lambda with a reference to an exported function,"
My other thought was, is there a way to put the loading of the components in the "export class testModule {}" portion to fill the array and then pass it to NgModule?
From my current test it doesn't work, but I am still new to this so I might be missing something.
Hope someone can help. Thanks!
Here is the code that creates the compile error:
I just did ng new test-app.
Then in the test-app folder i did npm install.
I created /src/app/services/components-loader.service.ts.
import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { ViewContainerRef, ViewChild, ComponentFactoryResolver } from '@angular/core';
@Injectable()
export class ComponentLoaderService {
constructor(private componentFactoryResolver: ComponentFactoryResolver){}
static getComponents(components: any[]): any[] {
var tmp = Array();
for (var i = 0; i < components.length; ++i){
if (components[i].key == 0){
tmp.push(components[i].component);
}
}
return tmp;
}
load(container: ViewContainerRef, components: any[]): void {
// clear
container.clear();
for (var i = 0; i < components.length; ++i){
if (components[i].key == 0 || components[i].key == 'site'){
const childComponent = this.componentFactoryResolver.resolveComponentFactory( components[i].component );
// at this point we want the "child" component to be rendered into the app.component:
container.createComponent(childComponent);
}
}
}
}
I created a file /src/app/components.ts.
import { TestComponent } from './test.component';
export const mainComponents = [
{ key: 0, component: TestComponent },
];
I created a file /src/app/test.component.ts.
import { Component } from '@angular/core';
@Component({
template: `test`,
})
export class TestComponent {}
I modified /src/app/app.module.ts to look like this.
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { FormsModule } from '@angular/forms';
import { HttpModule } from '@angular/http';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import { mainComponents } from './components';
import { ComponentLoaderService } from './services/components-loader.service';
let componentsToLoad = ComponentLoaderService.getComponents(mainComponents);
@NgModule({
declarations: [
AppComponent,
componentsToLoad
],
imports: [
BrowserModule,
FormsModule,
HttpModule
],
providers: [],
bootstrap: [AppComponent],
entryComponents: [ componentsToLoad ],
})
export class AppModule { }
When I compile using ng serve, i get this error:
10% building modules 2/2 modules 0 activeError: Error encountered resolving symbol values statically. Function calls are not supported. Consider replacing the function or lambda with a reference to an exported function, resolving symbol AppModule in D:/angularjs/test-app/src/app/app.module.ts, resolving symbol AppModule in D:/angularjs/test-app/src/app/app.module.ts