First I would like to say how I appreciate this forum, and the support crew who are so helpful in answering so many small questions. I tend not to write much - but I spent many hours on so many days searching for the answer to the many questions that naturally arise while programming.
I am a long time programmer - started back in 1974! - but I only started programming ionic/angular four months ago - so I consider myself a skilled newbie. I’m working on a project, and mostly have made good progress, but I find programming in Ionic/Angular very frustrating! The main frustration seems to come from things that an instructor in a course says will work not working. An example of that is the topic of this post “Passing data to a component via html”
I needed to figure this out - and several months ago I spent more than a week trying everything, without success. I finally figured out how to use a service as an exchange - so a component could “ask” what data it was to use by calling the service which the parent had nicely loaded up with data. I consider this a kludge.
Today, finally! I figured out a method that worked - which is what I felt I should share.
In html I had tried to pass data to the child using [myID]=“item.id.”
Then, as everyone said to do - I used @Input(‘myID’) to bind a component variable to that ID.
I only saw the ID as “undefined” which made me crazy.
Then, today, I saw someone in a forum (stack overflow…) make a slight comment:
“use ngAfterContentInit to get the data - not ngOnInit”
This was what I needed to see - the data is undefined in ngOnInit - but is valid in ngAfterContentInit!
So frustrating that I spent weeks struggling with this - finally writing a kludge work around - but now it works, thanks to some wise soul writing in a random post in a random forum.
Just thought I would share.
thanks for your time - and thanks to all those who are so helpful to all who struggle.
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