The `debounce()` rule allows developers to control when changes to a
form control are synchronized to the form model.
This feature necessitated some changes to `FieldState`:
* `controlValue` is a new signal property that represents the current
value of a form field as it appears in its corresponding control.
* `value` conceptually remains unchanged; however, its value may lag
behind that of `controlValue` if a `debounce()` rule is applied.
The `debounce()` rule essentially manages when changes to `controlValue` are
synchronized to `value`. The intent is that an expensive or slow
validation rule can react to the debounced `value`, rather than a more
frequently changing `controlValue`.
Directly updating `value` immediately updates `controlValue`, and cancels any
pending debounced updates.
When multiple `debounce()` rules are applied to the same field, the last
currently active rule is used to debounce an update. These rules are
applied to child fields as well, unless they override them with their
own rule.
This removes the need to specify type arguments for
`reducedMetadataKey()` when the value returned from the `getIntial`
callback is a subtype of the accumulated type.
https://github.com/angular/angular/pull/64590 implemented change
detection for field bindings, but only for those bound to native or
custom form controls. This change extends that optimization to apply to
field bindings on interoperable controls built using Reactive Forms as well.
By intersecting with `object` instead of `unknown` in the primitive and
`FormControl` cases, we get TypeScript to show nicer type errors that
mention `FieldTree<...>` insetad of `() => FieldState<...>`
Currently we maintain the pathKeys internally, but do not expose them
through the `FieldContext`, this PR updates the `FieldContext` to expose
this property.
These methods are only intended to be used internally within framework
instructions. Prefix them with `ɵ` to indicate that they are
framework-private and should not be called from user code.
PR Close#64471
Add support for interoperability between signal forms and reactive forms that
commit effccffde0 had removed.
A signal forms field can once again be bound to any element or component with a
`ControlValueAccessor`.
PR Close#64471
Renames the control directive and the input that users set to bind a
field to a UI control.
Previously users would do:
```
<input [control]="someField">
```
Now users will do:
```
<input [filed]="someField">
```
PR Close#64300
Move most of the implementation of the `Control` directive into core
framework instructions. This allows field state changes to be propagated
to their corresponding UI controls directly during execution of a
template update block, instead of relying on `effect()`s to synchronize
each change later during the update (and too late in the case of
required inputs).
* Define a private API in `@angular/core` for signal forms to implement:
* `ɵControl` for the `Control` directive.
* `ɵFieldState` for the control's associated `FieldState`.
* Emit specialized instructions when compiling a `[control]` binding:
* `ɵɵcontrolCreate` sets up the `ɵControl` directive if present,
determines whether it's bound to a native control element or a
custom control component, and adds the appropriate event listeners
to notify the `ɵFieldState` of UI changes.
* `ɵɵcontrol` propagates changes from `ɵFieldState` properties to their
corresponding UI control properties (in additional to binding the `control`
property itself).
PR Close#63773
There are two primary reasons for this renaming:
1. It better reflects the actual nature of the proxy object, namely that
the form is represented as a tree, and that this object is used for
navigating the tree structure (while `FieldState` is used for getting
the state at a particular point in the structure).
2. This frees up the name `Field` to be used for the directive that
binds a `FieldTree` to a UI control.
PR Close#64214
Moves the control directive under api/ since it is part of the public
API. Also removes the interop abstract control from the public API
PR Close#63616
This allows passing errors and disabled reasons that did not originate
from `@angular/forms/signals` in case the the control is being used
separately from the forms system
PR Close#63455
Removes custom handling of emptiness in several of the validators and
replaces it with a common `isEmpty` check. The common empty check
considered the following values to be empty: `null`, `undefined`, `''`,
`false`, `NaN`
Generally most validators should treat an empty value as valid. This
aligns with both the behavior or native HTML validators and reactive
forms validators.
As an example, consider an optional email field. If the email validator
considered empty string to be an invalid email, there would be no way
for the user to not enter it.
There are several exceptions to this rule:
- `required` whose entire purpose is to ensure that the field is *not*
empty
- `validateStandardSchema` which should subject all values including
empty ones to the specified standard schema. It is up to the schema to
decide whether an empty value is valid or not
- `validate`/`validateAsync` which leaves it up to the user's custom
validation logic to decide if an empty value is valid.
PR Close#63456
This commit introduces an experimental version of a new signal-based forms API for Angular. This new API aims to explore how signals can be leveraged to create a more declarative, intuitive, and reactive way of handling forms.
The primary goals of this new signal-based approach are:
* **Signal-centric Design:** Place signals at the core of the forms experience, enabling a truly reactive programming model for form state and logic.
* **Declarative Logic:** Allow developers to define form behavior, such as validation and conditional fields, declaratively using TypeScript. This moves logic out of the template and into a typed, testable schema.
* **Developer-Owned Data Model:** The library does not maintain a copy of data in a form model, but instead read and write it via a developer-provided `WritableSignal`, eliminating the need for applications to synchronize their data with the form system.
* **Interoperability:** A key design goal is seamless interoperability with existing reactive forms, allowing for incremental adoption.
* **Bridging Template and Reactive Forms:** This exploration hopes to close the gap between template and reactive forms, offering a unified and more powerful approach that combines the best aspects of both.
This initial version of the experimental API includes the core building blocks, such as the `form()` function, `Field` and `FieldState` objects, and a `[control]` directive for binding to UI elements. It also introduces a schema-based system for defining validation, conditional logic, and other form behaviors.
Note: This is an early, experimental API. It is not yet complete and is subject to change based on feedback and further exploration.
Co-authored-by: Kirill Cherkashin <kirts@google.com>
Co-authored-by: Alex Rickabaugh <alxhub@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Leon Senft <leonsenft@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Dylan Hunn <dylhunn@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Michael Small <michael-small@users.noreply.github.com>
PR Close#63408
The `FormArrayDirective` will allow to have a `FormArray` as a top-level form object.
* `NgControlStatusGroup` directive will be applied to the `FormArrayDirective`
* `NgForm` will still create a `FormGroup`
Fixes angular#30264
BREAKING CHANGE: This new directive will conflict with existing FormArray directives or formArray inputs on the same element.
PR Close#55880
Enables users to add an array of FormControls to a FormArray using its existing .push() method,
instead of pushing each new FormControl one by one triggering events along the way.
PR Close#57102
This change also decorelate the `reset` type argument from `TValue` by adding a 3rd generic parameter to `AbstractControl`.
This improves the typings overall.
PR Close#55860
This aligns with how angular/components marks their hidden APIs.
`@nodoc` has been broken since the switch to adev, this change should
properly hide the APIs again.
PR Close#61194
Adds the `markAllAsDirty` method to the `AbstractControl` class. This method will mark the control and all its
descendants as dirty.
I pretty much just duplicated the behaviour and tests of `markAllAsTouched`.
Fixes#55990
PR Close#58663
Instead of relying on Microsoft's API extractor for `d.ts` bundling,
we are switching to Rollup-based `.d.ts` bundling.
This allows us to support code spliting, even for `.d.ts` files,
allowing for relative imports to be used between entry-points, without
ending up duplicating `.d.ts` definitions in two files. This would otherwise cause
problems with assignability of types.
It also nicely integrates into our existing rollup configuration, and
overall simplifies the `ng_package` rule even further!
Notably `tsup` also uses this rollup plugin, and it seems to work well.
Keep in mind that Microsoft's API extractor is pretty hard to integrate,
caused many problems in the past, and isn't capable of code splitting.
This aligns our d.ts bundling with the .mjs bundling (great alignment).
PR Close#60321
This commit makes the host bindings of `NgControlStatus[Group]`
compatible with `OnPush` components. Note that this intentionally _does not_
expose any new APIs in the forms module. The goal is only to remove
unpreventable `ExpressionChangedAfterItHasBeenCheckedError` in the forms
code that developers do not have control over.
PR Close#55720
This commit deprecates the aliases for the control events to ease the changes in G3
A follow-up commit will remove those deprecated entries.
PR Close#55698
