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taylorswiftfan
taylorswiftfan

Reputation: 1517

Curly braces around a parameter in Angular

Looking at some Angular code:

    @Component({
      selector: 'my-app',
      templateUrl: 'kendoGrid.component.html'
    })
    export class AppComponent implements OnInit {

        public editDataItem: Product;
        public isNew: boolean;
        private editService: EditService;    

        public editHandler({dataItem}) { // What does wrapping a parameter in curly braces do?
            this.editDataItem = dataItem;
            this.isNew = false;
        }
    }

I could not find much result when I try to google curly braces / moustache with parameter in the context of Angular. What effect is achieved by wrapping a parameter in curly braces in Angular?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1385

Answers (2)

Jack Bashford
Jack Bashford

Reputation: 44125

It's known as destructuring, and it works like so:

Say you have an object which contains a person's name and age:

const person = {
    name: "John Doe",
    age: 42
};

And you have a function which prints out the age of the object passed to it:

function printAge(obj) {
    console.log(obj.age);
}

This function uses the whole object - however, since we don't actually need the other properties of the object (only age) we can use destructuring to extract that property:

function printAge({ age }) {
    console.log(age);
}

This is ES6 shorthand for the following:

function printAge(obj) {
    var age = obj.age;
    console.log(age);
}

So, all that this function does:

public editHandler({ dataItem }) {
    this.editDataItem = dataItem;
    this.isNew = false;
}

Is this ES5:

public editHandler(item) {
    var dataItem = item.dataItem;
    this.editDataItem = dataItem;
    this.isNew = false;
}

Upvotes: 5

Padmapriya Vishnuvardhan
Padmapriya Vishnuvardhan

Reputation: 2166

Instead of adding an object like

const dataItem = {test: "test"};

and pass it to a function, in ES6 we can directly pass an object like the one below.

public editHandler({test: "test"}) { 
        this.editDataItem = test;
        this.isNew = false;
    }

curly braces are nothing but an object.

Upvotes: -1

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