In the tutorial, we show how to create an Angular Custom Pipe with Angular Pure Pipe, and Angular Impure Pipe.
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Custom Pipe
We can write our own custom pipes.
Example: create a pipe that calculates a logarithm of a number with the base value.
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import { Pipe, PipeTransform } from '@angular/core'; @Pipe({name: 'logbase'}) export class Logarithm implements PipeTransform { transform(value: number, base: number): string { return (Math.log(value) / Math.log(base)).toPrecision(2); } } |
– The @Pipe decorator allows you to define the pipe name that you’ll use within template expressions.
– PipeTransform interface’s transform method that accepts an input value followed by optional parameters and returns the transformed value.
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export interface PipeTransform { transform(value: any, ...args: any[]): any; } |
We must include custom pipe in the declarations array of the AppModule
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@NgModule({ declarations: [ ... Logarithm, ... ], ... }) export class AppModule { } |
Now we create a baselog component to use above custom pipe logbase ->
– baselog.component.ts ->
import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core'; @Component({ selector: 'app-baselog', templateUrl: './baselog.component.html', }) export class BaselogComponent { number = 8; base = 2; } |
– baselog.component.html ->
<h3>Logarithm Calculator</h3> <div>Number: <input [(ngModel)]="number"/></div> <div>LogBase: <input [(ngModel)]="base"/></div> <p> Value: {{number | logbase: base}} </p> |
-> result:
Pure Pipe and Impure Pipe
Problem
Follow the above custom pipe, we create a even pipe to filter even numbers in a given number array.
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import { Pipe, PipeTransform } from '@angular/core'; @Pipe({ name: 'even' }) export class Evenpipe implements PipeTransform { transform(nums: number[]) { return nums.filter(num => num%2==0); } } |
Now we create an evenums component that uses even :
– evennums.component.ts ->
import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core'; @Component({ selector: 'app-evennums', templateUrl: './evennums.component.html' }) export class EvennumsComponent{ nums =[1, 2, 3, 4]; addNumber(number: number) { this.nums.push(number); //this.nums = this.nums.concat(number); } } |
– evennums.component.html ->
<h3>Array Numbers</h3> <input type="text" #box (keyup.enter)="addNumber(box.value); box.value=''" placeholder="number"> <h6>All Numbers</h6> <div *ngFor="let num of nums"> {{num}} </div> <h6>Even Numbers</h6> <div *ngFor="let num of (nums | even)"> {{num}} </div> |
Results:
– Inital state -> it works well:
– Add an even -> even pipe does NOT work well.
-> Why?
We can find all solutions in below sessions Pure & Impure pipes. Let’s go ->
Pure Pipe
Angular has 2 kinds of pipe: pure & impure.
In Angular, Pure is default pipe.
– Angular executes a pure pipe only when it detects a pure change to the input value.
– A pure change is either a change to a primitive input value (String, Number, Boolean, Symbol) or a changed object reference (Date, Array, Function, Object).
That is the reason, we got the above problems, even pipe does NOT work.
We use push method to add new number to exist array:
this.nums.push(number);
-> So the reference of array did NOT change. Then pure even pipe did NOT work.
How to fix it?
Solution -> change the array referene when adding a new item, see below code:
this.nums = this.nums.concat(number);
-> Test:
It works well now! -> Congratulation!!!
Have other solution? -> We can use impure pipe with below session.
Impure Pipe
An impure pipe is called often because Angular executes an impure pipe during every component change detection cycle.
-> Must more take care about performance for user experience when using impure pipe because it is expensive, long-running.
How to implement an Angular impure pipe?
-> The same ways that we had developed a custom pipe (pure pipe). The only difference point is the pure: false flag.
Now we implements an evenImpurePipe pipe ->
import { Pipe, PipeTransform } from '@angular/core'; import { Evenpipe } from './evenpipe'; @Pipe({ name: 'evenImpurePipe', pure: false }) export class Evenimpurepipe extends Evenpipe { } |
Don’t forget to include evenImpurePipe pipe in the declarations array of the AppModule ->
@NgModule({ declarations: [ ... Evenpipe, Evenimpurepipe, ], ... }) export class AppModule { } |
– Change the style of evennums component as below:
<h3>Array Numbers</h3> <input type="text" #box (keyup.enter)="addNumber(box.value); box.value=''" placeholder="number"> <h6>All Numbers</h6> <div *ngFor="let num of nums"> {{num}} </div> <h6>Even Numbers</h6> <!-- <div *ngFor="let num of (nums | even)"> --> <div *ngFor="let num of (nums | evenImpurePipe)"> {{num}} </div> |
– Implement addNumber with push method:
import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core'; @Component({ selector: 'app-evennums', templateUrl: './evennums.component.html' }) export class EvennumsComponent{ nums =[1, 2, 3, 4]; addNumber(number: number) { this.nums.push(number); //this.nums = this.nums.concat(number); } } |
Results -> It works well:
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