How to Inject Angular2 Http service into es6/7 Class?

Question

If I use es6/7 (babel - stage 1) instead of TypeScript, how are services, and specifically Http, injected?

Here\'s my component JS:

import {Compone         


        

Answer 1

Since you have @Decorators enabled in Babel

...I'll fine-tune this answer to work with your specific setup.

1. You're missing HTTP_PROVIDERS

The HTTP_PROVIDERS constant includes a number of functions required to handle HTTP requests/responses.

import {Http, HTTP_PROVIDERS} from 'angular2/http';    

@Component({
  selector: 'login',
  providers: [ HTTP_PROVIDERS ]
})

2. You need to desugar the DI (Dependency Injection) syntax

As mentioned in @alexpods' answer.

Remove the static typing

constructor(http) {

@Inject handles DI implicitly but is only supported in Angular2+Typescript. Since you're using Angular2+ES6 you need to attach a static getter parameter to your class to provide the ES6-specific equivalent.

static get parameters() {
    return [[Http]];
}

3. You need to bind the Http instance to your class in the constructor

By doing this, it will become accessible in your authenticate() method.

constructor(http) {
    this.http = http;
    console.log('http', this.http);
}

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...and the full implementation:

import {Component, Inject, View, CORE_DIRECTIVES, ViewEncapsulation} from 'angular2/angular2';
import {Http, HTTP_PROVIDERS} from 'angular2/http';

@Component({
  selector: 'login',
  // required for Http
  providers: [ HTTP_PROVIDERS ]
})
@View({
  templateUrl: './components/login/login.html',
  styleUrls: ['components/login/login.css'],
  directives: [CORE_DIRECTIVES],
  encapsulation: ViewEncapsulation.Emulated
})
export class Login {
  constructor(http) {
    // bind http to your class during construction
    //   so it's available to authenticate()
    this.http = http;
  }

  // Angular2 DI desugar'd
  static get parameters() {
    return [[Http]];
  }

  authenticate(username, password) {
    this.http.get('/login');
  }
}

Aside: I know for a fact this works because I'm using it for the <ng2-markdown> component on EvanPlaice.com.

Answer 2

With babel-plugin-angular2-annotations, you can inject services with constructor parameter type annotations just like TypeScript.

Install babel plugins:

npm install -D babel-plugin-angular2-annotations babel-plugin-transform-decorators-legacy babel-plugin-transform-class-properties babel-plugin-transform-flow-strip-types babel-preset-es2015

.babelrc:

{
  "plugins": [
    "angular2-annotations",
    "transform-decorators-legacy",
    "transform-class-properties",
    "transform-flow-strip-types"
  ],
  "presets": [
    "es2015"
  ]
}

and voila!

import {Component, View, CORE_DIRECTIVES, ViewEncapsulation} from 'angular2/angular2';
import {Http} from 'angular2/http';

@Component({
  selector: 'login'
})
@View({
  templateUrl: './components/login/login.html',
  styleUrls: ['components/login/login.css'],
  directives: [CORE_DIRECTIVES],
  encapsulation: ViewEncapsulation.Emulated
})
export class Login {
  constructor(http: Http) {
    console.log('http', http);
    this.http = http;
  }

  authenticate(username, password) {
    this.http.get('/login');
  }
}

Note that the type signature is used only for a hint for dependency injection and not used for type-checking.

Answer 3

How I've already answered it here, If you write code in ES7, use static getter for parameters property to specify injections into constructor of your component. For example:

import { Http } from 'angular2/http';
// other imports ...

// component decorators ...
export class Login {

  static get parameters() {
    return [[Http]];
  }

  constructor(http) {
    this.http = http;
    console.log('http', http);
  }

  // other methods
}

I think it most concise method at this moment.

Remember there is no proposal to support parameter decorators in ES7 at this moment (for example see this issue for Babel).

Answer 4

Method from the official API Review works for me:

import {Http, HTTP_PROVIDERS} from 'angular2/http';
@Component({
  selector: 'http-app',
  viewProviders: [HTTP_PROVIDERS],
  templateUrl: 'people.html'
})
class PeopleComponent {
  constructor(http: Http) {
    http.get('people.json')
      .map(res => res.json())
      .subscribe(people => this.people = people);
  }
}