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Danyx
Danyx

Reputation: 724

Initializing Template Driven Form in Angular 7

I'm looking to initialize certain form fields on a form and then call a function that has a if(this.form.valid) condition on it.

on the ngOnInit function I have an API call that gets some basic info and fills it on the form: 

ngOnInit(){
    this.apiService.getInfo(this.user.id).subscribe(
        userInfo => {
            this.formModel.fieldA = userInfo.A; 
            this.formModel.fieldB = userInfo.B; 
            this.formModel.fieldC = userInfo.C; 
            this.doStuff();
        }
    );
}

However when calling this.doStuff() the form is invalid, even though there are no errors and clicking on the submit button seems to force the validation and causes it to be valid.

Is there a way I can manually trigger the form's validation so that valid becomes true?

Edit: Stackblitz.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1214

Answers (1)

AVJT82
AVJT82

Reputation: 73357

Angular template-driven forms are in fact asynchronous. This is more prominently shown when working with the NgForm directive in component, compared to reactive forms. If you were to put a debugger in your calc() function from the stackblitz:

You would see that in the calc function when called from OnInit shows that the form is not valid, nor does the form controls have any value:

enter image description here

So your if in calc():

if (this.formExample && this.formExample.valid)

is not truthy and result will not be computed since the form is not valid.

So if we wait a tick before calling calc() that should solve your issue:

this.getInfo().subscribe(
  info => {
    this.params.field1 = info.field1;
    this.params.field2 = info.field2;
    // wait a tick!
    setTimeout(() => {
      this.calc();
    })
  }
);

STACKBLITZ

Upvotes: 3

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