I am adding child component dynamically to a parent. Now, in child component there is a method that is supposed to emit values back to parent, which in turn stores it to a local variable. But I get "undefined" error. It works if I add the child component in the template via its selector.
The error is the method that accepts emitted data from child component can't access class variables (this.save_data) saying "save_data" is undefined. It appears that it is looking for "save_data" in child comopnent, when it is defined in parent comopnent and accessed by a method in parent component, which is shown at the bottom end.
Hope I am making sense.
Child Component:
@Component({
selector: 'tr[child-component]',
templateUrl: './stock-item-form.component.html'
})
export class ChildComponent implements OnInit {
@Input() unique_id:string='';
@Output() eventActionHandler=new EventEmitter<any>();//
item_brand: FormControl;
constructor() {}
saveRow(event){
//emits valid data to the parent
if(this.item_brand.valid){
let data={'action':'add','data':{}}
data['data']['brand']=this.item_brand.value;
this.eventActionHandler.emit(data);
}
}
ngOnInit() {
this.item_brand = new FormControl('', [Validators.required]);
}
}
child.component.html:
<td>
<input type="text" class="form-control" [formControl]="item_brand"> <a href="#" (click)="saveRow($event)"><i class="fa fa-save"></i></a>
<div class="alert" *ngIf="!item_brand.valid && item_brand.touched">Enter brand or Unknown</div>
</td>
Now parent component (stripped to show only relevant code). the error is now in emmitedNewAction method which can't access this.saved_data
create the child component directly:
saved_data:any[]=[];
@ViewChild('stockin_items_containair', {read: ViewContainerRef}) stockin_items_containair: ViewContainerRef; //dynamic stocked in item goes here
addNewChildComponent(){
//create the child component then subscribe an event to it:
let instance=this.stockin_items_containair.createComponent(this.childComponent);
instance.instance['eventActionHandler'].subscribe(this.emittedNewRowAction);
}
emittedNewRowAction($event){
//data sent from saveRow metod of child component and source of error
console.log($event)
console.log(this.saved_data);//saved_data undefined
}