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Angular Dependency Injection

Objective: In this article, you will know dependency injection concept, custom dependency injection in Angular.

Pre-requisite Prior to completing this article, you should have already installed all pre-requisite tooling including: Visual Studio Code, Node Package Manager (NPM), Node, Angular CLI.

Dependency Injection

Consider all these components performing common task like accessing the database, rendering images on the view etc.

  • to avoid rewriting of code, Angular Service can be used
  • these service can then injected into the components that require that service
  • Dependency Injection or DI keeps the code flexible, testable and mutable
  • Classes can inherit external logic without knowing how to create it
  • DI is benefits directive, pipes and components

Normally, components are used to ensure a good user experience.

  • In order to execute tasks, using Service is ideal.
  • A component can delegate tasks like fetching data from the server, validating user input, or logging directly to the console to the Service.

Use Case

  • Create a Service that performs the task of displaying an employee list
  • Inject the service into the class using Dependency Injection

At first create a component ng g c emp_info

Next create a service ng g s records

records.service.ts

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';

@Injectable({
  providedIn: 'root'
})
export class RecordsService {

  info1: string[] = ["John Doe", "E234", "john@gmail.com"]
  info2: string[] = ["Simon Gomez", "E321", "simon@gmail.com"]
  info3: string[] = ["Bipon Biswas", "E123", "bipon@gmail.com"]

  getInfo1(): string[]{
    return this.info1;
  }
  getInfo2(): string[]{
    return this.info2;
  }
  getInfo3(): string[]{
    return this.info3;
  }

  constructor() { }
}
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Let's go back to our component .ts file emp-info.component.ts

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { RecordsService } from '../records.service';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-emp-info',
  templateUrl: './emp-info.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./emp-info.component.css'],
  providers: [RecordsService]
})
export class EmpInfoComponent implements OnInit {

  infoReceived1: string[] = [];
  infoReceived2: string[] = [];
  infoReceived3: string[] = [];

  constructor(private rservice: RecordsService) { }

  ngOnInit(): void {
  }

  getInfoFromServiceClass1(){
    this.infoReceived1 = this.rservice.getInfo1();
  }
  getInfoFromServiceClass2(){
    this.infoReceived2 = this.rservice.getInfo2();
  }
  getInfoFromServiceClass3(){
    this.infoReceived3 = this.rservice.getInfo3();
  }

}
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Service are implemented with the help of Dependancy Injection.

What we need to do. At first import the Service into the emp-info.component.ts file.

Import Service

import { RecordsService } from '../records.service';
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emp-info.component.html

<button type="button" name="button" (click)="getInfoFromServiceClass1()">Employee1</button>
<ul>
    <li *ngFor="let info of infoReceived1" class="list-group-item">{{info}}</li>
</ul>

<button type="button" name="button" (click)="getInfoFromServiceClass2()">Employee2</button>
<ul>
    <li *ngFor="let info of infoReceived2" class="list-group-item">{{info}}</li>
</ul>

<button type="button" name="button" (click)="getInfoFromServiceClass3()">Employee3</button>
<ul>
    <li *ngFor="let info of infoReceived3" class="list-group-item">{{info}}</li>
</ul>
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Create a three different button for different employees. And user click on the button the data is showing in the UI.

Import into app.component.html

<app-emp-info></app-emp-info>
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Employee list

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