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Md Rafee
Md Rafee

Reputation: 5550

change detection of property in Angular

In app.component.ts, I have a property called current.

export class appComponent {
  current = 0;
}

In some of my methods I changed this property

previous() {
  this.current -= 1
}
next() {
  this.current += 1
}

Now, I want to run a set of command when current property is changed. I can do it by appending those command after changes.

previous() {
  this.current -= 1;
  this.runCommands();

}
next() {
  this.current += 1;
  this.runCommands();
}

Everything works just fine. But see, it seems very messy calling this method every time this property changes. What I want to do run a change detection function what run my command like:

this.current.valueChanges.subscribe(() => this.runCommand());

is it possible with any simpler way in angular?

Thanks in advance

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1928

Answers (1)

JamieT
JamieT

Reputation: 1187

You would want to make current an Observable via a BehaviorSubject. Ideally, these would exist in an injectable service and then the components that rely on the value of current would be subscribed via the injected service.

Setting up the Observable would look like

   private _current = new BehaviorSubject<number>(0);
   public readonly current = this._current.asObservable();

and then we can subscribe to current in the components (in this example, the one it lives in) that need to like 

   this.current.subscribe(val => {
        // do stuff here
    })

Any time we wish to change the value of current and fire the event for anything subscribed to it we do this like

    this._current.next(123);  // anything subscribed receives the value of 123

You can do this in your component, but the best practice is to put the Observable in your service layer.

To achieve your desired use case of incrementing the value by 1 or -1, the BehaviorSubject function getValue() will come in handy by telling you the current value stored in the Observable.

    this._current.next(++this._current.getValue()) // increment 1
    this._current.next(--this._current.getValue()) // increment -1
    // etc...

Upvotes: 6

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