I am doing an Angular 2 demo with injection and get an error that my CustomDirective can't be used as an entry element.
So, my NgModule
import {platformBrowserDynamic} from '@angular/platform-browser-dynamic';
import AppComponent from './app.component';
import {NgModule} from "@angular/core";
@NgModule({
declarations: [AppComponent],
bootstrap:[AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule{}
const platform = platformBrowserDynamic();
platform.bootstrapModule(AppModule);
AppComponent:
import {Component} from '@angular/core';
import {TIMER_DIRECTIVES} from './timer/timer';
import {TASK_DIRECTIVES} from './tasks/tasks';
import {SHARED_PROVIDERS} from './shared/shared';
@Component({
selector: 'tomato-app',
entryComponents: [TIMER_DIRECTIVES,TASK_DIRECTIVES],
providers: [SHARED_PROVIDERS],
template: `
<nav class="navbar navbar-default navbar-static-top">
<div class="container">
<div class="navbar-header">
<strong class="navbar-brand">Tomato App</strong>
</div>
</div>
</nav>
<tomato-timer-widget></tomato-timer-widget>
<tomato-tasks></tomato-tasks>`
})
export default class AppComponent{}
And the custom directive itself:
import {Task} from '../shared/shared'
import {Input, HostListener, Directive} from '@angular/core';
@Directive({
selector: '[task]'
})
export default class TaskTooltipDirective {
private defaultTooltipText: string;
@Input() task: Task;
@Input() taskTooltip: any;
@HostListener('mouseover')
onMouseOver() {
if (!this.defaultTooltipText && this.taskTooltip) {
this.defaultTooltipText = this.taskTooltip.innerText;
}
this.taskTooltip.innerText = this.task.name;
}
@HostListener('mouseout')
onMouseOut() {
if (this.taskTooltip) {
this.taskTooltip.innerText = this.defaultTooltipText;
}
}
}
The problem is that I am using entryComponents in AppComponent incorrectly. How do I need to link a custom directive?
entryComponents: list of components that are dynamically inserted into the view of this component
How do I need to link a custom directive?
Put your all directive, pipe, component in declarations array at NgModule level:
@NgModule({
declarations: [AppComponent, TIMER_DIRECTIVES, TASK_DIRECTIVES],
bootstrap:[AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule{}
note that, if you declare provider at Component level:
@Component({
selector: 'tomato-app',
providers: [SHARED_PROVIDERS],
//...
})
it will create new instance for all instances of this component. in other word, if you have 2 different Component, with 2 declare providers: [SHARED_PROVIDERS], then the SHARED_PROVIDERS of 2 component are different. you need declare in NgModule level to use same instance in all component of this NgModule.
@NgModule({
declarations: [AppComponent, TIMER_DIRECTIVES, TASK_DIRECTIVES],
providers: [SHARED_PROVIDERS],
entryComponents: [TIMER_DIRECTIVES, TASK_DIRECTIVES],
bootstrap:[AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule{}