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amlyhamm
amlyhamm

Reputation: 1150

Call a function within a TypeScript Angular directive?

For a while now, I've been following an Angular directive TypeScript pattern that I really like. I give the directive its own isolated scope by creating a new controller.

I've run into a situation where I need to call a function within my Angular directive from outside of the directive.

For example, I have a really simple function that opens a popup within my directive. The directive's controller has something like:

public openPopup() {
    this.uiClasses.popup = "open";
}

The corresponding view has a few notable elements like:

<div ng-click="vm.openPopup()">Open the pop up</div>
<div ng-class="vm.uiClasses.popup">the actual popup</div>

With some really basic CSS, this works like a charm. But, what if I have a controller that creates this directive, and wants to trigger the directive's openPopup function. I want to do something like this:

class PageController {
    private scope: any = null;
    static $inject = ["$scope"];

    constructor($scope: any) {
        $scope.vm = this;
    }

    public openTheDirectivePopup() {
        // from here, how can I call the openPopup on a specific directive?
    }
}

The corresponding view:

<div ng-click="vm.openTheDirectivePopup()">I can open the popup inside the custom directive</div>
<my-custom-directive></my-custom-directive>

I also want to be able to have multiple instances of these directives on the same page without conflict.

It seems like this should be do-able, but I can't quite wrap my head around it. Any suggestions?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2044

Answers (1)

alcfeoh
alcfeoh

Reputation: 2267

What I would do in that case is add a "isOpen" attribute to your directive, and toggle that value true / false from your ng-click call.

It would look like this in your HTML:

<div ng-click="vm.isOpen = true">I can open the popup inside the custom directive</div>
<my-custom-directive isOpen="vm.isOpen"></my-custom-directive>

Upvotes: 0

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