Iterate over object in Angular

Question

I am trying to do some things in Angular 2 Alpha 28, and am having an issue with dictionaries and NgFor.

I have an interface in TypeScript looking like this:

Answer 1

Adding to SimonHawesome's excellent answer. I've made an succinct version which utilizes some of the new typescript features. I realize that SimonHawesome's version is intentionally verbose as to explain the underlying details. I've also added an early-out check so that the pipe works for falsy values. E.g., if the map is null.

Note that using a iterator transform (as done here) can be more efficient since we do not need to allocate memory for a temporary array (as done in some of the other answers).

import {Pipe, PipeTransform} from '@angular/core';

@Pipe({
    name: 'mapToIterable'
})
export class MapToIterable implements PipeTransform {
    transform(map: { [key: string]: any }, ...parameters: any[]) {
        if (!map)
            return undefined;
        return Object.keys(map)
            .map((key) => ({ 'key': key, 'value': map[key] }));
    }
}