Why angular 2 ngOnChanges not responding to input array push

Manush picture Manush · Apr 5, 2017 · Viewed 16.1k times · Source

My angular application stuck with a issue, i used input as array and pushed a value to the array when the click event arise. But the ngOnChanges not firing when the array push is done. Is there a way to fire ngOnChange

My Code is ts file is

@Component({
  selector: 'adv-search',
  templateUrl: './app/modules/result.html'
})

export class InputComponent {
  @Input() metas:any=[];

  ngOnChanges() {
    console.log(this.metas);
  }
}

My Selector Tag

<adv-search [metas] = "metaIds"></adv-search>

Click Event Code

insertIds(id:any) {
   metaIds.push(id);
}

Answer

G&#252;nter Z&#246;chbauer picture Günter Zöchbauer · Apr 5, 2017

Angular change detection only checks object identity, not object content. Inserts or removals are therefore not detected.

What you can do is to copy the array after each update

insertIds(id:any) {
  this.metaIds.push(id);
  this.metaIds = this.metaIds.slice();
}

or use IterableDiffer to check for changes inside InputComponent in ngDoCheck like NgFor does.