Angular 2: Passing Data to Routes?

Question

I am working on this angular2 project in which I am using ROUTER_DIRECTIVES to navigate from one component to other.

There are 2 components. i.e. PagesComponent & DesignerComponent.

I want to navigate from PagesComponent to DesignerComponent.

So far its routing correctly but I needed to pass page Object so designer can load that page object in itself.

I tried using RouteParams But its getting page object undefined.

below is my code:

pages.component.ts

import {Component, OnInit ,Input} from 'angular2/core';
import { GlobalObjectsService} from './../../shared/services/global/global.objects.service';
import { ROUTER_DIRECTIVES, RouteConfig } from 'angular2/router';
import { DesignerComponent } from './../../designer/designer.component';
import {RouteParams} from 'angular2/router';

@Component({
    selector: 'pages',    
    directives:[ROUTER_DIRECTIVES,],
    templateUrl: 'app/project-manager/pages/pages.component.html'
})
@RouteConfig([
  { path: '/',name: 'Designer',component: DesignerComponent }      
])

export class PagesComponent implements OnInit {
@Input() pages:any;
public selectedWorkspace:any;    
constructor(private globalObjectsService:GlobalObjectsService) {
    this.selectedWorkspace=this.globalObjectsService.selectedWorkspace;                    
}
ngOnInit() { }   
}

In the html, I am doing following:

<scrollable height="300" class="list-group" style="overflow-y: auto; width: auto; height: 200px;" *ngFor="#page of pages">
    {{page.name}}<a [routerLink]="['Designer',{page: page}]" title="Page Designer"><i class="fa fa-edit"></i></a>
</scrollable>

In the DesignerComponent constructor I have done the following:

constructor(params: RouteParams) {
    this.page = params.get('page');
    console.log(this.page);//undefined
}

So far its routing correctly to designer, but when I am trying to access page Object in designer then its showing undefined. Any solutions?

Answer 1

1. Set up your routes to accept data

{
    path: 'some-route',
    loadChildren: 
      () => import(
        './some-component/some-component.module'
      ).then(
        m => m.SomeComponentModule
      ),
    data: {
      key: 'value',
      ...
    },
}

2. Navigate to route:

From HTML:

<a [routerLink]=['/some-component', { key: 'value', ... }> ... </a>

Or from Typescript:

import {Router} from '@angular/router';

...

 this.router.navigate(
    [
       '/some-component',
       {
          key: 'value',
          ...
       }
    ]
 );

3. Get data from route

import {ActivatedRoute} from '@angular/router';

...

this.value = this.route.snapshot.params['key'];

Answer 2

You can do this:

app-routing-modules.ts:

import { NgModule                  }    from '@angular/core';
import { RouterModule, Routes      }    from '@angular/router';
import { PowerBoosterComponent     }    from './component/power-booster.component';


export const routes: Routes = [
  { path:  'pipeexamples',component: PowerBoosterComponent, 
data:{  name:'shubham' } },
    ];
    @NgModule({
      imports: [ RouterModule.forRoot(routes) ],
      exports: [ RouterModule ]
    })
    export class AppRoutingModule {}

In this above route, I want to send data via a pipeexamples path to PowerBoosterComponent.So now I can receive this data in PowerBoosterComponent like this:

power-booster-component.ts

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { Router, ActivatedRoute, Params, Data } from '@angular/router';

@Component({
  selector: 'power-booster',
  template: `
    <h2>Power Booster</h2>`
})

export class PowerBoosterComponent implements OnInit {
  constructor(
    private route: ActivatedRoute,
    private router: Router

  ) { }
  ngOnInit() {
    //this.route.snapshot.data['name']
    console.log("Data via params: ",this.route.snapshot.data['name']);
  }
}

So you can get the data by this.route.snapshot.data['name'].

Answer 3

It changes in angular 2.1.0

In something.module.ts

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { CommonModule } from '@angular/common';
import { BlogComponent } from './blog.component';
import { AddComponent } from './add/add.component';
import { EditComponent } from './edit/edit.component';
import { RouterModule } from '@angular/router';
import { MaterialModule } from '@angular/material';
import { FormsModule } from '@angular/forms';
const routes = [
  {
    path: '',
    component: BlogComponent
  },
  {
    path: 'add',
    component: AddComponent
  },
  {
    path: 'edit/:id',
    component: EditComponent,
    data: {
      type: 'edit'
    }
  }

];
@NgModule({
  imports: [
    CommonModule,
    RouterModule.forChild(routes),
    MaterialModule.forRoot(),
    FormsModule
  ],
  declarations: [BlogComponent, EditComponent, AddComponent]
})
export class BlogModule { }

To get the data or params in edit component

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { Router, ActivatedRoute, Params, Data } from '@angular/router';
@Component({
  selector: 'app-edit',
  templateUrl: './edit.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./edit.component.css']
})
export class EditComponent implements OnInit {
  constructor(
    private route: ActivatedRoute,
    private router: Router

  ) { }
  ngOnInit() {

    this.route.snapshot.params['id'];
    this.route.snapshot.data['type'];

  }
}

Answer 4

You can't pass objects using router params, only strings because it needs to be reflected in the URL. It would be probably a better approach to use a shared service to pass data around between routed components anyway.

The old router allows to pass data but the new (RC.1) router doesn't yet.

Update

data was re-introduced in RC.4 How do I pass data in Angular 2 components while using Routing?