Accessing `selector` from within an Angular 2 component

Question

I'm trying to figure out how I can access the selector that we pass into the @Component decorator.

For example

@Component({
  selector: 'my-component'
})
class MyComponent {
  constructor() {
     // I was hoping for something like the following but it doesn't exist
     this.component.selector // my-component
  }
}

Ultimately, I would like to use this to create a directive that automatically adds an attribute data-tag-name="{this.component.selector}" so that I can use Selenium queries to reliably find my angular elements by their selector.

I am not using protractor

Answer 1

Use ElementRef:

import { Component, ElementRef } from '@angular/core'

@Component({
  selector: 'my-component'
})
export class MyComponent {
  constructor(elem: ElementRef) {
    const tagName = elem.nativeElement.tagName.toLowerCase();
  }
}