Aggregate in Typescript

I have implemented Aggregate method in my Linq library written for Typescript.

if (!Array.prototype.Aggregate) {
  Array.prototype.Aggregate = function <T>(accumulator: any, currentValue: any, reducerFunc: (accumulator: any, currentValue: any) => any): any {
    //debugger
    if (reducerFunc === undefined || reducerFunc === null) {
      reducerFunc = (accumulator, currentValue) => accumulator + currentValue;
    }
    let result = this.reduce(reducerFunc);
    return result;
  }
}

if (!Array.prototype.AggregateSelect) {
  Array.prototype.AggregateSelect = function <T>(property: (keyof T), accumulator: any, currentValue: any, reducerFunc: (accumulator: any, currentValue: any) => any): any {
    //debugger
    if (reducerFunc === undefined || reducerFunc === null) {
      reducerFunc = (accumulator, currentValue) => accumulator + currentValue;
    }
    //debugger
    let result = this.Select(property).map(n => n[property]).reduce(reducerFunc);
    return result;
  }
}

Here are some Jasmine tests for these two methods - note that I also support setting the initial value.

  it('can aggregate items to expected result using Aggregate on array of items of numbers', () => {
    let someNums = [1, 2, 3, 4];
    let result = someNums.Aggregate(0, 0, null);
    expect(result).toBe(10);
  });

  it('can aggregate items and project to expected result using AggregateSelect on array of items of objects', () => {
    let someArray: any[] = [];
    someArray.push(<SomeClass>{ Name: "Foo", Num: 1 });
    someArray.push(<SomeClass>{ Name: "FooBaz", Num: 4 });
    someArray.push(<SomeClass>{ Name: "AllyoBaze", Num: 7 });
    let result = someArray.AggregateSelect<SomeClass>("Num", 0, 0, null);
    expect(result).toBe(12);
  });

  it('can aggregate once more items and project to expected result using AggregateSelect on array of items of objects with accumulator value set initially', () => {
    let someArray: Student[] = [];
    someArray.push(<Student>{ StudentID: 1, StudentName: "John", Age: 13 });
    someArray.push(<Student>{ StudentID: 2, StudentName: "Moin", Age: 21 });
    someArray.push(<Student>{ StudentID: 3, StudentName: "Bill", Age: 18 });
    someArray.push(<Student>{ StudentID: 4, StudentName: "Ram", Age: 20 });
    someArray.push(<Student>{ StudentID: 5, StudentName: "Ron", Age: 15 });
    let result = someArray.AggregateSelect<Student>("StudentName", "Student Names: ", 0, (a, b) => a + "," + b);
    expect(result).toBe("John,Moin,Bill,Ram,Ron");
  });

My interface definition is growing everytime for my Linq Library! Here is how it looks now:

export { } //creating a module of below code
declare global {
  type predicate<T> = (arg: T) => boolean;
  type sortingValue<T> = (arg: T) => any;
  interface Array<T> {
    FirstOrDefault<T>(condition: predicate<T>): T;
    LastOrDefault<T>(condition: predicate<T>): T;
    Where<T>(condition: predicate<T>): T[];
    Count<T>(): number;
    CountBy<T>(condition: predicate<T>): number;
    Select<T>(...properties: (keyof T)[]): any[];
    GroupBy<T>(groupFunc: (arg: T) => string): any[];
    EnumerableRange(start: number, count: number): number[];
    Any<T>(condition: predicate<T>): boolean;
    All<T>(condition: predicate<T>): boolean;
    MaxSelect<T>(property: (keyof T)): any;
    MinSelect<T>(property: (keyof T)): any;
    Average<T>(): number;
    AverageSelect<T>(property: (keyof T)): number;
    Max(): any;
    Min(): any;
    Sum(): any;
    Distinct<T>(): T[];
    DistinctBy<T>(property: (keyof T)): any;
    SumSelect<T>(property: (keyof T)): any;
    Intersect<T>(otherArray: T[]): T[];
    IntersectSelect<T>(property: (keyof T), otherArray: T[]): T[];
    MinSelect<T>(property: (keyof T)): any;
    OrderBy<T>(sortMember: sortingValue<T>): T[];
    OrderByDescending<T>(sortMember: sortingValue<T>): T[];
    ThenBy<T>(sortMember: sortingValue<T>): T[];
    OfType<T>(compareObject: T): T[];
    SequenceEqual<T>(compareArray: T): boolean;
    Take<T>(count: number): T[];
    TakeWhile<T>(condition: predicate<T>): T[];
    SkipWhile<T>(condition: predicate<T>): T[];
    Skip<T>(count: number): T[];
    defaultComparerSort<T>(x: T, y: T);
    ElementAt<T>(index: number);
    ElementAtOrDefault<T>(index: number);
    Aggregate<T>(accumulator: any, currentValue: any, reducerFunc: (accumulator: any, currentValue: any) => any): any;
    AggregateSelect<T>(property: (keyof T), accumulator: any, currentValue: any, reducerFunc: (accumulator: any, currentValue: any) => any): any;
  }
}

DistinctBy operator written in Typescript

I am extended my Linq library for Typescript with many more methods! Here is my implementation of DistinctBy.

if (!Array.prototype.DistinctBy) {
  Array.prototype.DistinctBy = function <T>(property: (keyof T)): T[] {
    if (this === null || this === undefined) {
      return [];
    }
    let filteringArray = this.Select(property).map(n => n[property]);

    let distinctRunOnArray = this.filter((value, index, array) => {
      let valueProperty = value[property];
      return filteringArray.indexOf(valueProperty) === index;
    });
    return distinctRunOnArray;
  }
}

This Jasmine test can test this operator out.

describe('TSLinq Jasmine tests', () => {

  it('can filter out duplicates using DistinctBy on array of items of objects', () => {
    let someArray: Student[] = [];
    someArray.push(<Student>{ StudentID: 1, StudentName: "John", Age: 13 });
    someArray.push(<Student>{ StudentID: 2, StudentName: "Moin", Age: 21 });
    someArray.push(<Student>{ StudentID: 2, StudentName: "Moin", Age: 21 });
    someArray.push(<Student>{ StudentID: 4, StudentName: "Ram", Age: 20 });
    someArray.push(<Student>{ StudentID: 5, StudentName: "Ron", Age: 15 });
    let expectedArray: Student[] = [];
    expectedArray.push(<Student>{ StudentID: 1, StudentName: "John", Age: 13 });
    expectedArray.push(<Student>{ StudentID: 2, StudentName: "Moin", Age: 21 });
    expectedArray.push(<Student>{ StudentID: 4, StudentName: "Ram", Age: 20 });
    expectedArray.push(<Student>{ StudentID: 5, StudentName: "Ron", Age: 15 });
    let result = someArray.DistinctBy<Student>("StudentID");
    expect(result).toEqual(expectedArray);
  });


});

The Student class is simple:

class Student {
  StudentID: number;
  StudentName: string;
  Age: number;
}

Implementing OfType in Typescript

I am working on my Linq library for Typescript and wanted to implement OfType. Turns out, this is hard because the generic type arguments in Typescript usually requires a value, i.e. an object instance of type T to get any shape information at run-time. So I ended up passing in a vanilla object setting default property values instead. Here is how my implementation ended up:

function isOfSimilarShape<T>(input: any, compareObject: T): boolean {
  if (input === undefined || input === null || compareObject === undefined || compareObject === null)
    return false;

  let propsOfInput = Object.keys(input);
  let propsOfCompareObject = Object.keys(compareObject);
  //debugger
  let sameShapeOfInputAndCompareObject = propsOfInput.EqualTo(propsOfCompareObject);
  return sameShapeOfInputAndCompareObject;
}

if (!Array.prototype.OfType) {
  Array.prototype.OfType = function <T>(compareObject: T): T[] {
    let result: T[] = [];
    this.forEach(el => {
      //debugger
      let t: T = null;
      if (isOfSimilarShape(el, compareObject))
        result.push(el);
    });
    return result;
  }
}

The following Jasmine test shows its usage:

describe('Array Extensions tests', () => {

  it('can find desired items using OfType of type T', () => {
    let someMixedArray: any[] = [];
    someMixedArray.push(<SomeClass>{ Name: "Foo", Num: 1 });
    someMixedArray.push(<SomeOtherClass>{ SomeName: "BarBazBaze", SomeOtherNum: 813 });
    someMixedArray.push(<SomeClass>{ Name: "FooBaz", Num: 4 });
    someMixedArray.push(<SomeOtherClass>{ SomeName: "BarBaze", SomeOtherNum: 13 });
    someMixedArray.push(<SomeClass>{ Name: "AllyoBaze", Num: 7 });

    let compareObject = <SomeClass>{ Name: "", Num: 0 };
    let filteredArrayBySpecifiedType = someMixedArray.OfType(compareObject);
    console.log(filteredArrayBySpecifiedType);

    expect(filteredArrayBySpecifiedType.All(item => <SomeClass>item !== undefined)).toBe(true, "Expected only items of type SomeOtherClass in the filtered array after running OfType of SomeOtherClass on it.");
  });

It would be nice if we did not have to pass in a vanilla object and populate its properties, but I could not find any tips online or in the Typescript documentation for how to implement extracting type information from generic arguments of Typescript. This is very easy in C#, but while Typescript gives compilation type information, getting runtime information from generic arguments in the Javascript code that Typescript compiles into turned much harder.

More methods: Any, All, EnumerableRange, GroupBy for Linq like library written in TypeScript

I am extending my TypeScript library written to target Linq like methods, which can be used with Angular 8 and Typescript also. You can find my Github repo SimpleLinqLibraryTs here: https://github.com/toreaurstadboss/SimpleLinqLibraryTs/blob/master/src/app/array-extensions.ts

export { } //creating a module of below code
declare global {
  type predicate<T> = (arg: T) => boolean;
  interface Array<T> {
    FirstOrDefault<T>(condition: predicate<T>): T;
    LastOrDefault<T>(condition: predicate<T>): T;
    Where<T>(condition: predicate<T>): T[];
    Select<T>(...properties: (keyof T)[]): any[];
    GroupBy<T>(groupFunc: (arg: T) => string): any[];
    EnumerableRange(start: number, count: number): number[];
    Any<T>(condition: predicate<T>): boolean;
    All<T>(condition: predicate<T>): boolean;
  }
}

if (!Array.prototype.FirstOrDefault) {
  Array.prototype.FirstOrDefault = function <T>(condition: predicate<T>): T {
    let matchingItems: T[] = this.filter((item: T) => {
      if (condition(item))
        return item;
    });
    return matchingItems.length > 0 ? matchingItems[0] : null;
  }
}

if (!Array.prototype.Any) {
  Array.prototype.Any = function <T>(condition: predicate<T>): boolean {
    if (this.length === 0)
      return false;
    let result: boolean = false;
    for (let index = 0; index < this.length; index++) {
      const element = this[index];
      if (condition(element)) {
        result = true;
        break;
      }
    }
    return result;
  }
}

if (!Array.prototype.All) {
  Array.prototype.All = function <T>(condition: predicate<T>): boolean {
    if (this.length === 0)
      return false;
    let result: boolean = true;
    for (let index = 0; index < this.length; index++) {
      const element = this[index];
      if (!condition(element)) {
        result = false;
      }
    }
    return result;
  }
}

if (!Array.prototype.LastOrDefault) {
  Array.prototype.LastOrDefault = function <T>(condition: predicate<T>): T {
    let matchingItems: T[] = this.filter((item: T) => {
      if (condition(item))
        return item;
    });
    return matchingItems.length > 0 ? matchingItems[matchingItems.length - 1] : null;
  }
}

if (!Array.prototype.Select) {
  Array.prototype.Select = function <T>(...properties: (keyof T)[]): any[] {
    let result = [];
    for (let i = 0; i < this.length; i++) {
      let item: any = {};
      for (let j = 0; j < properties.length; j++) {
        let key = properties[j];
        item[key] = this[i][properties[j]];
      }
      result.push(item);
    }
    return result;
  }
}

if (!Array.prototype.GroupBy) {
  Array.prototype.GroupBy = function <T>(groupFunc: (arg: T) => string): any[] {
    let groups: any = {};
    this.forEach(el => {
      let itemKeyValue: any = groupFunc(el);
      if (itemKeyValue in groups === false) {
        groups[itemKeyValue] = [];
      }
      groups[itemKeyValue].push(el);
    });
    let result = Object.keys(groups).map(key => {
      return {
        key: key,
        values: groups[key]
      }
    });
    return result;
  }
}

function* Range(start, count) {
  for (let x = start; x < start + count; x++) {
    yield x;
  }
}

if (!Array.prototype.EnumerableRange) {
  Array.prototype.EnumerableRange = function (start: number, count: number): number[] {
    let generatedRange = [...Range(start, count)];
    return generatedRange;
  }
}


if (!Array.prototype.Where) {
  Array.prototype.Where = function <T>(condition: predicate<T>): T[] {

    let matchingItems: T[] = this.filter((item: T) => {

      if (condition(item)) {
        return true;
      }
    });
    return matchingItems;
  }
}

Implementing Linq methods on arrays with Typescript for Angular 8

This article will look into implementing Linq methods on array with Typescript for Angular 8. First off, I have created a repo for this article on Github. Simple Linq Library written with Typescript for Angular 8 This only implements FirstOrDefault and Where Linq operators on arrays. We first need to define our Array prototype methods. Since we use Angular, first we define an empty module using export {} and then declare global { .. } Inside our declare global we define our type predicate and our methods Where and FirstOrDefault. Then we define our two methods if they do not exist yet on Array.prototype. The special syntax above is adaptions for Typescript and Angular. I have tested this with Angular 8. Here is the Typescript code I ended up with:

export { } //creating a module of below code
declare global {
  type predicate<T> = (arg: T) => boolean;
  interface Array<T> {
    FirstOrDefault<T>(condition: predicate<T>): T;
    Where<T>(condition: predicate<T>): T[];
  }
}

if (!Array.prototype.FirstOrDefault) {
  Array.prototype.FirstOrDefault = function <T>(condition: predicate<T>): T {
    let matchingItems: T[] = this.filter((item: T) => {

      if (condition(item)) {
        return item;
      }
    });
    if (matchingItems.length > 0) {
      return matchingItems[0];
    }
    return null;
  }
}

if (!Array.prototype.Where) {
  Array.prototype.Where = function <T>(condition: predicate<T>): T[] {

    let matchingItems: T[] = this.filter((item: T) => {

      if (condition(item)) {
        return true;
      }
    });
    return matchingItems;
  }
}

Let us define some input data - an array to work on and pass into predicates where we can test out FirstOrDefault and Where methods !

import { Movie } from './movie';

export const StarWarsMovies : Array>Movie< =
 [{
      "title" : "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace",
      "episode_number" : "1",
      "main_characters" : ["Qui-Gon Jinn", "Obi-Wan Kenobi", "Anakin Skywalker", "Padmé Amidala", "Jar Jar Binks", "Darth Maul"],
      "description" : "The evil Trade Federation, led by Nute Gunray is planning to take over the peaceful world of Naboo. Jedi Knights Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi are sent to confront the leaders. But not everything goes to plan. The two Jedi escape, and along with their new Gungan friend, Jar Jar Binks head to Naboo to warn Queen Amidala, but droids have already started to capture Naboo and the Queen is not safe there. Eventually, they land on Tatooine, where they become friends with a young boy known as Anakin Skywalker. Qui-Gon is curious about the boy, and sees a bright future for him. The group must now find a way of getting to Coruscant and to finally solve this trade dispute, but there is someone else hiding in the shadows. Are the Sith really extinct? Is the Queen really who she says she is? And what's so special about this young boy?",
      "poster" : "star_wars_episode_1_poster.png",
      "hero_image" : "star_wars_episode_1_hero.jpg"
    },

    {
      "title" : "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones",
      "episode_number" : "2",
      "main_characters" : ["Obi-Wan Kenobi", "Anakin Skywalker", "Count Dooku", "Padmé Amidala", "Mace Windu", "Yoda", "Jango Fett", "Supreme Chancellor Palpatine"],
      "description" : "Ten years after the 'Phantom Menace' threatened the planet Naboo, Padmé Amidala is now a Senator representing her homeworld. A faction of political separatists, led by Count Dooku, attempts to assassinate her. There are not enough Jedi to defend the Republic against the threat, so Chancellor Palpatine enlists the aid of Jango Fett, who promises that his army of clones will handle the situation. Meanwhile, Obi-Wan Kenobi continues to train the young Jedi Anakin Skywalker, who fears that the Jedi code will forbid his growing romance with Amidala.",
      "poster" : "star_wars_episode_2_poster.png",
      "hero_image" : "star_wars_episode_2_hero.jpg"
    },

    {
      "title" : "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith",
      "episode_number" : "3",
      "main_characters" : ["Obi-Wan Kenobi", "Anakin Skywalker", "Count Dooku", "Padmé Amidala", "Mace Windu", "Yoda", "C-3PO", "Supreme Chancellor Palpatine"],
      "description" : "Three years after the onset of the Clone Wars; the noble Jedi Knights are spread out across the galaxy leading a massive clone army in the war against the Separatists. After Chancellor Palpatine is kidnapped, Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and his former Padawan, Anakin Skywalker, are dispatched to eliminate the evil General Grievous. Meanwhile, Anakin's friendship with the Chancellor arouses suspicion in the Jedi Order, and dangerous to the Jedi Knight himself. When the sinister Sith Lord, Darth Sidious, unveils a plot to take over the galaxy, the fate of Anakin, the Jedi order, and the entire galaxy is at stake. Upon his return, Anakin Skywalker's wife Padme Amidala is pregnant, but he is having visions of her dying in childbirth. Anakin Skywalker ultimately turns his back on the Jedi, thus completing his journey to the dark side and his transformation into Darth Vader. Obi-Wan Kenobi must face his former apprentice in a ferocious lightsaber duel on the fiery world of Mustafar.",
      "poster" : "star_wars_episode_3_poster.png",
      "hero_image" : "star_wars_episode_3_hero.jpg"
    },

    {
      "title" : "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope",
      "episode_number" : "4",
      "main_characters" : ["Luke Skywalker", "Han Solo", "Princess Leia Organa", "Ben Kenobi", "Darth Vader", "C-3P0", "R2-D2", "Chewbacca"],
      "description" : "Part IV in George Lucas' epic, Star Wars: A New Hope opens with a Rebel ship being boarded by the tyrannical Darth Vader. The plot then follows the life of a simple farm boy, Luke Skywalker, as he and his newly met allies (Han Solo, Chewbacca, Obi-Wan Kenobi, C-3PO, R2-D2) attempt to rescue a Rebel leader, Princess Leia, from the clutches of the Empire. The conclusion is culminated as the Rebels, including Skywalker and flying ace Wedge Antilles make an attack on the Empire's most powerful and ominous weapon, the Death Star.",
      "poster" : "star_wars_episode_4_poster.png",
      "hero_image" : "star_wars_episode_4_hero.jpg"
    },

    {
      "title" : "Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back",
      "episode_number" : "5",
      "main_characters" : ["Luke Skywalker", "Han Solo", "Princess Leia Organa", "Darth Vader", "C-3P0", "R2-D2", "Chewbacca", "Lando Calrissian", "Boba Fett"],
      "description" : "Fleeing the evil Galactic Empire, the Rebels abandon their new base in an assault with the Imperial AT-AT walkers on the ice world of Hoth. Princess Leia, Han Solo, Chewbacca and the droid C-3PO escape in the Millennium Falcon, but are later captured by Darth Vader on Bespin. Meanwhile, Luke Skywalker and the droid R2-D2 follows Obi-Wan Kenobi's posthumous command, and receives Jedi training from Master Yoda on the swamp world of Dagobah. Will Skywalker manage to rescue his friends from the Dark Lord?",
      "poster" : "star_wars_episode_5_poster.png",
      "hero_image" : "star_wars_episode_5_hero.jpg"
    },

    {
      "title" : "Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi",
      "episode_number" : "6",
      "main_characters" : ["Luke Skywalker", "Han Solo", "Princess Leia Organa", "Darth Vader", "C-3P0", "Chewbacca", "The Emperor", "Boba Fett"],
      "description" : "Darth Vader and the Empire are building a new, indestructible Death Star. Meanwhile, Han Solo has been imprisoned, and Luke Skywalker has sent R2-D2 and C-3PO to try and free him. Princess Leia - disguised as a bounty hunter - and Chewbacca go along as well. The final battle takes place on the moon of Endor, with its natural inhabitants, the Ewoks, lending a hand to the Rebels. Will Darth Vader and the Dark Side overcome the Rebels and take over the universe?",
      "poster" : "star_wars_episode_6_poster.png",
      "hero_image" : "star_wars_episode_6_hero.jpg"
    }];

The Movie class looks like this:

export class Movie {
  title: string;
  episode_number: string;
  main_characters: string[];
  description: string;
  poster: string;
  hero_image: string;
}

Now we can test out these predicate methods FirstOrDefault and Where ! Note that in case you have worked with C# and Linq before, the syntax and the Intellisense will make you feel more at home with this kind of code - not only do you have type checking, but you can also pass in strongly typed predicate methods using Typescript, Generics and the Array prototype techniques discussed here. Also note how I define a predicate type here defining an arrow function, being the predicate.

import { Component, Inject } from '@angular/core';
import { StarWarsMovies } from './starwarsmovies';
import { Movie } from './movie';
import './array-extensions';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-root',
  templateUrl: './app.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./app.component.css']
})
export class AppComponent {
  title = 'Linq TsExtensions demo';

  firstMovieWithBoba: Movie;
  allMoviesWithLeia: Movie[];
  starwarsMovies: string;

  constructor() {
    this.starwarsMovies = JSON.stringify(StarWarsMovies);
    this.firstMovieWithBoba = 
StarWarsMovies.FirstOrDefault<Movie>(m => m.main_characters.indexOf('Boba Fett') > 0);
    this.allMoviesWithLeia = 
StarWarsMovies.Where<Movie>(m => m.main_characters.indexOf('Princess Leia Organa') > 0);
    console.log(this.firstMovieWithBoba);
    console.log(this.allMoviesWithLeia);
  }

}

We now can work on our strongly typed arrays and define easily our filtering predicates for Where and FirstOrDefault implementation. It should be easy to extend this into more methods, such as SingleOrDefault and Any and so on. The screen shot below shows the results after running ng serve -o:

Enumerable Range in Javascript

The following Javascript code uses Generator functions and destructuring spread operator ... to create an array between min and count, much similar to Enumerable.Range in Linq and C#. The following screen shot shows how it can be used. You can iterate this with for.. let.. of

function* Range(min,ct) {
  for (let x=min;x<=min+ct;x++) {
    yield x;
  }
}

let gen = [...Range(2,10)]
console.log(gen);

for (let y of gen) {
 console.log(y);
}

Generic method for builing a query string of classes in Typescript

This method below can be used in Typescript to build up a query string from a given object of a class instance in Typescript. Use it when performing HTTP(S) GET calls.

  BuildQueryString<T>(input: T): string {
    let q = "?";

    Object.keys(input).forEach(key => q += key + "=" + input[key] + "&");

    if (q.length > 0) {
      q = q.substr(0,q.length-1);
    }

    return q;

    
  }

Sample usage in Angular 8 solution of mine for example:

  async saveSurvey(): Promise<SurveyItem> {
    //debugger
    let s: SurveyItem = {
      Id: 0, LastUpdate: new Date(),
      EquipmentNumber: this.equpimentIdentifier, RoomNumber: this.roomIdentifier,
      PrimaryUsage: this.primaryUsage,
      IsInspected: this.GetBoolean(this.isInspected), IsNotFound: this.GetBoolean(this.isNotFound)
    };
    let q = this.fetcher.GetAPIUrl('savesurvey');
    q += this.fetcher.BuildQueryString(s);
    const response = await this.http.get<SurveyItem>(q, { headers: this.corsHeaders }).toPromise();
    //this.openSnackBar('Lagret utstyr ' + this.equpimentIdentifier);
    this.openSnackBar('Lagret utstyr ' + this.equpimentIdentifier + ' Laster inn liste for utstyr i samme rom også..');

    //After saving survye - update also the properties with updated Id and LastUpdate

    this.SetCurrentSurveyItemPropretiesFromSurveyItem(response);

    this.onRoomSelected(this.roomIdentifier);



    return response;
  }

Eslint Standalone tool

I have created a standalone Eslint tool the last weeks! This tool is available through Npmjs here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/eslint-standalone The source code is available here: https://github.com/toreaurstadboss/eslint-standalone To clone the repo, you can run this command:

git clone https://github.com/toreaurstadboss/eslint-standalone.git

This animated gif shows how the tools shows linting capabilities. The loaded .eslintrc.js file errors if there are ES6 syntax, which does not work well in Internet Explorer. This is done by specifying env->es6 set to true and parserOptions->ecmaVersion set to '5'. Why would you even consider supporting Internet Explorer as a browser for your products ? Well, in the real world, some customers still use Internet Explorer due to company restrictions and compability reasons. So this standalone tool together with .eslintrc.js file below should help you check files conforming to ES5 Syntax and thereby supporting Internet Explorer.

module.exports = {
  "plugins": ["ie11"],
  "env": {
    "browser": true,
    "node": true,
    "es6": false
  },
  "parserOptions": {
    "ecmaVersion": 5,
  },
  "rules": {
    "ie11/no-collection-args": ["error"],
    "ie11/no-for-in-const": ["error"],
    //"ie11/no-loop-func": ["warn"],
    "ie11/no-weak-collections": ["error"]
  }
};

To check that your Javascript code works using this tool, add the .eslinrc.js file above in the folder of your project (or any parent folder on that media disk volume). Then run the command eslint-standalone.exe after adding the .eslintrc.js file. You should then have outputted to the command line the errors (or warnings found) of ES6 Syntax, which IE does not support. Note that I have not added functionality for '--fix' with this ESLint tool yet. You must inspect the warnings and errors reported and manually adjust/fix the Javascript source code. Also note that this tool only supports looking at .js and .htm and .html files. I tried adding .cshtml files in the list of file globs supported, but the tool could not understand Razor syntax. Feel free to give me some tips here if you know how to add this as a support. Also note that it is additional documentation to be found for this tool on the Npmjs.org site and also in the GitHub repository.

eslint-standalone.exe 

The sample screen shot shows how to run the tool from the command line (simple command). I deliberately added an arrow method in a Javascript file and the tool quickly spots this issue. For a medium sized project the tool takes only 5-10 seconds to execute.

Sorting array word-wise in Javascript

Sometimes it is nice to sort arrays word-wise in Javascript. This means sorting not the entire column value,

/**
 * Summary: Sorts alphabetaically word-wise to be used in e.g. a Select2Js control. Specify the n-word to start sorting with. 
 *
 * Alphabetically sorts by each word
 * @param {Number}   startWordIndex The 'n-word' to begin sorting with  *
 * @param {boolean}  isAscending The direction of sorting - true means ascending, false means descending
 * @return {type} Return sort comparison value. If 0, the sorting is tie, if < 0 the element a preceeds b
 */
(function () {
    var sortFunction = function sortFunctionTemplate(isAscending, startWordIndex, valueSelector, a, b) {
        var aValue = valueSelector(a);
        var bValue = valueSelector(b);
        var astripped = aValue.split(' ');
        var bstripped = bValue.split(' ');
        var wordLength = Math.min(astripped.length, bstripped.length);

        var compareValue = 0;
        for (var i = startWordIndex; i < wordLength; i++) {
            compareValue = astripped[i].localeCompare(bstripped[i]);
            if (compareValue !== 0) {
                break;
            }
        }
        if (compareValue === 0) {
            if (astripped.length > bstripped.length) {
                compareValue = 1;
            } else if (astripped.length < bstripped.length) {
                compareValue = 1;
            }
        }
        return compareValue * (isAscending ? 1 : -1);
    };
    if (typeof (Array.prototype.sortWordwise) === 'undefined') {
        // ReSharper disable once NativeTypePrototypeExtending
        Array.prototype.sortWordwise = function sortWordwise(startWordIndex, isAscending, valueSelector) {
            if (valueSelector === null) {
                valueSelector = function (item) {
                    return item;
                };
            }
            //console.log('sorterer word-wise... ');

            return this.sort(sortFunction.bind(this, isAscending, startWordIndex, valueSelector));

        };

    }
})();

Example how to use this method: Here we use the Select2.js jQuery plugin to do our custom sorting to sort word-wise. I only consider the text after the ':' in my specific use case and I supply the starting index - sorting by the nth-word 1 (i.e. second word and so on) and supply a value selector function also. Select2.Js also retrieves a matcher function to specify the matching to be done case-insensitive (the find item in list function of the select 2 js control in this specific case).

$('.stentGraftfabrikatpicker').select2({
      width: "element",
            sortResults: function(data) {
                var velgVerdi = data[0];
                var ret = [velgVerdi];
                var dataToBeSorted = data.splice(1);
                return ret.concat(
                    dataToBeSorted.sortWordwise(1, true, function(item) {
                        var value = item.text;
                        return value.indexOf(':') >= 0 ? value.substring(value.indexOf(':') + 1) : value;
                    })
                );
            },
      matcher: function(term, text) {
       return text.toUpperCase().indexOf(term.toUpperCase()) >= 0;
      },
      allowClear: true
    });

AngularJS Directive for Focus trap for modal popups

If you use Bootstrap modal popup, chances are that hitting TAB enough types on the keyboard will navigate out of the modal popup and back to the background web page, the DOM elements "beneath" the modal popup. This AngularJS directive should fix up that, wrapping everything in an IFE (Immediately invoking Function Expression). Note that this only works if your module is called 'app' (the default name).

(function() {
angular.module('app')
 .directive('modal', trapFocus)
 
 function trapFocus() {
        return {
            restrict: 'C',
            priority: 1,
            link: function (scope, element, attr) {
                if (typeof (scope.registerFocusTrap) === 'undefined') {
                    scope.registerFocusTrap = registerFocusTrap;
                } else {
                    for (var i = 0; i < element.length; i++) {
                        registerFocusTrap(element.get(i));
 
                    }
                }
 
            }
        };
    }
 
    function registerFocusTrap(element) {
        var focusableEls = element.querySelectorAll(
            'a[href]:not([disabled]), button:not([disabled]), textarea:not([disabled]), input[type="text"]:not([disabled]), input[type="radio"]:not([disabled]), input[type="checkbox"]:not([disabled]), select:not([disabled])');
        var firstFocusableEl = focusableEls[0];
        var lastFocusableEl = focusableEls[focusableEls.length - 1];
        // ReSharper disable once InconsistentNaming
        var KEYCODE_TAB = 9;
 
        $(element).on('keydown',
            function (e) {
                console.log('inside registerFocusTrap keydown');
                var isTabPressed = (e.key === 'Tab' || e.keyCode === KEYCODE_TAB);
 
                if (!isTabPressed) {
                    return;
                }
 
                if (e.shiftKey) /* shift + tab */ {
                    if (document.activeElement === firstFocusableEl) {
                        lastFocusableEl.focus();
                        e.preventDefault();
                    }
                } else /* tab */ {
                    if (document.activeElement === lastFocusableEl) {
                        firstFocusableEl.focus();
                        e.preventDefault();
                    }
                }
            }
        );
    }
  
}); 
 

Note that the name of registered modules in AngularJs is not supported in AngularJs by itself. This polyfill should tough fix up this.

(function(orig) {
    angular.modules = [];
    angular.module = function() {
        if (arguments.length > 1) {
            angular.modules.push(arguments[0]);
        }
        return orig.apply(null, arguments);
    }
})(angular.module);

Implementing projection in Javascript

Github page for source code in this article:
https://github.com/toreaurstadboss/JsLinqSimpleProjection
https://www.npmjs.com/package/jslinqsimpleprojection
Npm package for source code in this article: Since I started working with Linq in C#, I missed a good way of doing much of the same functionality in Javascript. Today, there are several Linq libraries for Javascript and Typescript, and libraries such as Backbone.Js or Lodash also containing a lot of helpful operators or utility methods. As an educational exercise, I was looking into a simple way of doing a projection method in pure Javascript (no es6 syntax). Here is what I made. First off, we need to be able to project an array of objects by listing up properties. In ES6 Javascript we could use arrow functions. But I wanted to support pure Javascript. So I choose to use a comma separated list of property or field values to dive into the array object, written in Json notation of course. Consider first this array as an example:

        var someCountries = [
          { country: "Norway", population: 5.2, code: "NO" },
          { country: "Finland", population: 5.5, code: "SU" },
          { country: "Iceland", population: 0.4, code: "IC" },
          { country: "Sweden", population: 10.2, code: "SW" }
        ];

We want to project this array using a new method select on the array of which we use the Array.prototype to achieve. Note that this will immediately add methods to all array objects immediately in the global scope. Now consider a projection of just the 'country' and the 'population' fields of the Json structure. Given a method call of just these two properties, we want to create a select projection method. First consider this lightweight linqmodule implementation, using an IFE (Immediately invoked function expression) and using the revealing module pattern. We expose the method dump to this module.

var linqmodule = (function() {
  projection = function(members) {
    var membersArray = members.replace(/s/g, "").split(",");
    var projectedObj = {};

    for (var i = 0; i < this.length; i++) {
      for (var j = 0; j < membersArray.length; j++) {
        var key = membersArray[j];
        if (j === 0) {
          projectedObj[i] = {};
        }
        projectedObj[i][key] = this[i][key];
      }
    }

    return projectedObj;
  };
  Array.prototype.select = projection;

  dumpmethod = function(arrayobj) {
    var result = "";
    result += "[";

    for (var i = 0; i < Object.keys(arrayobj).length; i++) {
      var membersArray = Object.keys(arrayobj[i]);
      for (var j = 0; j < membersArray.length; j++) {
        if (j === 0) {
          result += "{";
        }
        var key = membersArray[j];
        result +=
          "key: " +
          key +
          " , value: " +
          arrayobj[i][key] +
          (j < membersArray.length - 1 ? " , " : "");
        if (j === membersArray.length - 1) {
          result +=
            "}" + (i < Object.keys(arrayobj).length - 1 ? "," : "") + "\n";
        }
      }
    }
    result += "]";

    return result;
  };

  return {
    dump: dumpmethod
  };
})();

Now it is easy to dump the contents of our projected array (which is copied into a new object) using the dump method:

 result = someNums.select("country,population");
         document.getElementById("result").innerText = linqmodule.dump(result);

        console.log(result);

Note that our new object contains only the country and population fields in the Json structure, not the code. We have created a simple projection mechanism in Javascript in a self contained module!

Arithmetic parser in Javascript

I just added an arithmetic parser in Javascript code sample on Github, check out the following repo: JsSimpleParser The parser is also available through Npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/simplejsparsermatharithmetic Installation: npm i simplejsparsermatharithmetic Supported expressions (examples): 2+3 should evaluate to 5 12 * 5–(5 * (32 + 4)) + 3 should evalute to -117 This is a great example of how to write a parser of your own.

Using TagBuilder in MVC

I have been started programming MVC again at work after many years focusing more on WPF. So I came accross a class called 'TagBuilder'. This is a handy class for generating markup programatically. Let us create a HTML helper that renders an image tag. It can use TagBuilder to achieve this. First off, we create the HTML helper like this:

using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;

namespace HelloTagBuilderDemo.Helpers
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Sample usage of TagBuilder in MVC
    /// </summary>
    public static class HtmlHelpers
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Generates an IMG element which is self-closing and uses as src the given path pointing to an image file with a relative path within the web application
        /// and with alternate text
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="path"></param>
        /// <param name="alternateText"></param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        // ReSharper disable once UnusedParameter.Global
        // ReSharper disable once InvalidXmlDocComment
        public static IHtmlString Image(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, string path, string alternateText)
        {
            var builder = new TagBuilder("img");
            // ReSharper disable once StringLiteralTypo
            builder.Attributes.Add("src", VirtualPathUtility.ToAbsolute(path));
            builder.Attributes.Add("alt", alternateText);
            var markupResult = builder.ToString(TagRenderMode.SelfClosing);
            return new MvcHtmlString(markupResult);
        }
    }
}

We make use of the VirtualPathUtility.ToAbsolute method to convert a virtual path to an absolute path. Then we make use of the html helper inside a MVC view like this:

@{
    ViewBag.Title = "Home Page";
}

@using System.Web.Mvc.Html
@using HelloTagBuilderDemo.Helpers


<div class="jumbotron">
    <h1>ASP.NET</h1>
    <p class="lead">ASP.NET is a free web framework for building great Web sites and Web applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.</p>
    <p><a href="https://asp.net" class="btn btn-primary btn-lg">Learn more »</a></p>
</div>

<div class="row">
    <div class="col-md-4">
        <h2>Getting started</h2>
        <p>Harold is at it again, making clones of himself to inflict multiple pain.</p>                
    </div>
    <div class="col-md-4">
        @Html.Image(@"~/Images/haroldatitagain.jpg", "Harold")
    </div>
</div>

And now we have our resulting HTML helper at display, showing also in the screen grab the markup the HTML helper generated for us. [1] Tagbuilder on MSDN: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.web.mvc.tagbuilder?view=aspnet-webpages-3.2

Deleting a set of databases with similar names with T-SQL

Devops Sunday. If you end up having many databases in SQL Server and want to get rid of them by matching their names, this T-SQL should help you out.

use master
go
declare @tablestoNuke as table(db nvarchar(100))
insert into @tablestoNuke
select name from sys.databases  
where name like '%SomeSimilarDbNameSet%'
declare @nukedb as nvarchar(100)
declare @nukesql as nvarchar(150)

declare nuker cursor for
select db from @tablestoNuke

open nuker
fetch next from nuker into @nukedb

while @@FETCH_STATUS = 0 
begin
set @nukesql = 'drop database ' + @nukedb
exec sp_executesql @nukesql
fetch next from nuker into @nukedb
end

close nuker
deallocate nuker

print 'All done nuking'

The T-SQL uses a cursor to loop through the database names fetched from sys.databases view on master db and then uses exec sp_executesql to delete the databases, by dropping them.

Getting started with tests on controllers in AngularJs

Some notes - I had to work with AngularJs tests today and needed to look into Jasmine and mocking enough and import enough to have running tests. I use the Chutzpah test runner to run the Jasmine Tests. The unit test below should get you started writing tests for controllers in AngularJs. The key concepts is to import jQuery, Bootstrap, Angular Animate, Angular-Mocks and your module and controller through using the reference path syntax at the top and then define a beforeEach that capture the _$controller_ and $_rootScope_ variables and using $rootScope.$new() to create a scope. But in my case I also had to specify a provided factory 'bootstrappedData' since my controller reads the 'model' property inside that. By specifying the value this provided factory returns at the top of each tests, I got the amount of DRY I needed to get started testing. I had to this since my controller got the data in an indirect manner, using he factory. I then create a new instance of the controller after updating the 'bootstrappedData' factory.

/// 
/// 
/// 
/// 
/// 
/// 
/// 

describe('someController works', function () {
    beforeEach(module('app'));
    var $scope;
    var $rootScope;
    var $controller;
    var $bootstrappedData;
    var $repository;
    var ctrl;
    var provide;

    beforeEach(module(function ($provide) {
        provide = $provide;
      
    }));

    beforeEach(module(function ($provide) {
        $provide.factory('repository', function () {
            return {
                model: {
                }
            };
        });
    }));

    beforeEach(inject(function (_$controller_, _$rootScope_) {
        $controller = _$controller_;
        $rootScope = _$rootScope_;
        scope = $rootScope.$new();

    }));

    it('Creates the AngularJs controller someController', function () {
        provide.factory('bootstrappedData', function () {
            return {
                model: {
                }
            };
        });

        ctrl = $controller('someController', { $scope: scope });
        expect(ctrl).not.toBe(null);

    });

    it('Method someproperty returns expected', function () {
        provide.factory('bootstrappedData', function () {
            return {
                model: {
                    SomeProperty: '3'
                }
            };
        });
        ctrl = $controller('KontrollskjemaController', { $scope: scope });
        var someprop = scope.isSomeConditionalPropertyReturningTrueIfSomePropertyIsThree;
        expect(someprop).toBe(true);
    });

});

A tip is to add a file called Chutzpah.json and ignoring well known Javascript libraries to only run code coverage on your own code:

{
  "CodeCoverageExcludes": [ "*\\jquery.js", "*\\angular.js", "*\\bootstrap.min.js", "*\\jquery*", "*\\angular-animate.min.js" ]
  //"CodeCoverageIncludes": [ "*\\*Spec.js" ]
} 

Looking into (circular) dependencies of MEF using C# and Ndepend - Migrating from MEF to Autofac

I decided to look into circular dependencies in C# using reflection and NDepend today. A circular dependency is problematic, especially if you are using dependency injection. In fact, if your system injects dependencies through constructors, if part A imports part B and vice versa - you will usually get a crash. To instantiate the part A we need part B, but that holds also for part A instantiating part B. A huge system I have been working on for years uses MEF or Managed Extensibility Framework. This is primarily an extension framework for allowing pluggable applications, such as seen in Silverlight. It also provides Inversion of Control and you can also import through constructors, that is - every type can decorate one constructor with the [ImportingConstructor] attribute. My system however uses property based injection. You can decorate a property with [Import] attribute and the type of the constructor will then create an instance of an object exporting itself as that type. You can import either concrete or interface based types, and it is also possible to specify a key for the import (string identifier). So the bad part about property based injections is that circular injections can creep up on you - the system will not crash - but it allows circular depedendencies to exist in your system. I created the following Unit Test to detect these circular dependencies.

        [Test]
        [Category(TestCategories.IntegrationTest)]
        public void OutputCircularDependencies()
        {
            var compositionParts = new List>CompositionPart<();
          
            foreach (var part in _aggregateCatalog.Parts)
            {
                var importList = new List>string<();
               
                foreach (var import in part.ImportDefinitions)
                {
                    if (import != null)
                    {
                        importList.Add(import.ContractName);
                    }
                }

                foreach (var export in part.ExportDefinitions)
                {
                    string exportType = null;
                    if (export.Metadata.ContainsKey("ExportTypeIdentity"))
                        exportType = export.Metadata["ExportTypeIdentity"].ToString();

                    string creationPolicy = null;
                    if (export.Metadata.ContainsKey("System.ComponentModel.Composition.CreationPolicy"))
                        creationPolicy = export.Metadata["System.ComponentModel.Composition.CreationPolicy"].ToString();
                    compositionParts.Add(new CompositionPart(part.ToString(), exportType, creationPolicy, importList));                   
                }             
            }

            foreach (var part in compositionParts)
            {
                //check each import if it imports this part
                foreach (var importPart in part.Imports)
                {
                    var matchingPart = compositionParts.FirstOrDefault(c =< c.Identity == importPart);
                    if (matchingPart != null)
                    {
                        if (matchingPart.Imports.Any(i =< i == part.Identity))
                        {
                            //Circular reference detected!
                            Console.WriteLine(@"Component {0} is circular dependent of component {1}", part.Name, matchingPart.Name);
                        }
                    }
                }
            }

            
        }

The code loops through the ComposablePart parts of the AggregateCatalog.Each part has ExportDefinitions (usually one export) and ImportDefinitions (often multiple imports). The first pass will then just gather up information for all the parts of the AssemblyCatalog and then loop through each part again and loop though its imports in an inner loop. If the imported part imports the part itself, we have a circular dpeendency. The test just outputs the circular dependencies to the console. I use the class CompositionPart to have a entity to contain some information about each composition part of the AssemblyCatalag instance. It is just a regular AssemblyCatalog in MEF, created like this:

        readonly AggregateCatalog _aggregateCatalog = new AggregateCatalog();
        CompositionContainer _container;

        [SetUp]
        public void CommonInitialize()
        {
            _aggregateCatalog.Catalogs.Add(new AssemblyCatalog(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetAssembly(typeof(SomeFeatureModule))));
            _aggregateCatalog.Catalogs.Add(new AssemblyCatalog(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetAssembly(typeof(SomeFeatureServiceAgent))));
            _aggregateCatalog.Catalogs.Add(new AssemblyCatalog(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetAssembly(typeof(SomeCommonUtil))));
            _aggregateCatalog.Catalogs.Add(new AssemblyCatalog(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetAssembly(typeof(SomeProvider))));           
            _container = new CompositionContainer(_aggregateCatalog);
            _container.ComposeParts();
        }

As we can see, the AggregateCatalog just consists of several assemblies in .NET. I rewrite the software to not use MEF and property based imports (i.e. properties decorated with the import attribute of System.ComponentModel.Composition.ImportAttribute) by looping through the parts of the AggregateCatalog and looking at the export definitions. The target is Autofac, which is a DI framework that offers dependency injection IMHO better than MEF ImportingConstructor, so analyzing the export defiitions, I can create a list of statements to migrate from MEF to Autofac.

        [Test]
        [Category(TestCategories.IntegrationTest)]
        public void OutputAutofacRegistrations()
        {

            var sb = new StringBuilder();

            foreach (var part in _aggregateCatalog.Parts)
            {
                string partName = part.ToString();

                if (part.ExportDefinitions != null)
                {
                    foreach (var export in part.ExportDefinitions)
                    {
                        string exportType = null;
                        if (export.Metadata.ContainsKey("ExportTypeIdentity"))
                             exportType = export.Metadata["ExportTypeIdentity"].ToString();                        
                        
                        string creationPolicy = null;
                        if (export.Metadata.ContainsKey("System.ComponentModel.Composition.CreationPolicy"))
                            creationPolicy = export.Metadata["System.ComponentModel.Composition.CreationPolicy"].ToString();
                        
                        string autofacExportDefinition = string.Format("builder.RegisterType>{0}<(){1}{2};", partName, 
                            !string.IsNullOrEmpty(exportType) ? ".As>" + exportType + "<()" : string.Empty,
                            !string.IsNullOrEmpty(creationPolicy) && creationPolicy.ToLower().Contains("nonshared") ? 
                            ".InstancePerDependency()" : ".SingleInstance()");
                        sb.AppendLine(autofacExportDefinition);

                        Console.WriteLine(autofacExportDefinition);
                    }
                    
                }

            }

I also used Ndepend as a supporting tool to look at visualizations of these dependencies. I had trouble detecting ImportingAttribute on properties (properties are methods in C# known as 'property getters' and 'property setters'), but at least I came up with the following CQLinq statements to look for all types that are decorated with the ExportAttribute (exporting parts) and Ndepend then got nice visualization of something called 'View internal dependency cycles on graph'. As Ndepend or my CQLinq skills lacking could not find the importing attribute decorated on properties (Ndepend does not fully support attribute detection on methods in an easy way yet - detecting attributes on types is easier), I ended up with the CQLinq below to at least list up the exporting classes and launching the graphical tool to look if the parts (classes) with circular dependencies was a hotspot in the source base, i.e. a class used by many other classes. The CQLinq below shows how to generate such a graph for revealing class interdepenencies - quite easy using Ndepend.

let exportingTypes = from type in JustMyCode.Types
where type.IsClass && type.HasAttribute("System.ComponentModel.Composition.ExportAttribute")
&& (type.FullNameLike("SomeAcme"))
let f = Types.ChildMethods().Where(m =< m.IsPropertyGetter)
select type
let typesAttributes = Types
from m in exportingTypes.UsingAny(typesAttributes).ChildMethods().Where(x =< x.IsPropertySetter || x.IsPropertyGetter)
let mAttributes = typesAttributes.Where(t =< m.HasAttribute(t)).ToArray()
where mAttributes .Length < 0
select new { m, mAttributes} 

So there you have some tips around how to migrate from MEF to Autofac and detect cyclic dependencies in your source code. Ndepend will be a good tool to have as a companion to the refactoring job when you want to migrate. I will suggest to first rewrite your application using importing constructors instead of property based imports and then fix up the cyclic dependencies. You can use the Lazy initializer for example. It will delay constructing a part of type T specified to fix up such circular dependencies. Or you could of course refactor the code such that part A and part B that imports eachother instead imports some other part C both.. There are different ways to fix it up. Once you have rewritten the software to use importing constructors and there are no circular dependencies, you can switch to Autofac. I showed you in the unit test OutputAutofacRegistrations how to do that. It outputs ContainerBuilder statements to build up a working Autofac IContainer with same kind of mesh of dependencies as in the MEF based application.

Building Angular apps with source maps and vendor chunk

Here is a quick tip about controlling the generation of source maps and vendor chunks in Angular 8 apps. Sourcemaps are built default in Angular according to the documentation @ https://angular.io/cli/build To be specific, the following command worked for me:

ng build --prod --sourceMap

In addition, the vendor chunk is now baked into the main chunk. To create a separate vendor chunk, run this: Angular 8 will put the vendor chunk into the main for optimizing the js code.

ng build --prod --sourceMap --vendor-chunk=true

In addition, it is recommended to analyze the bundle size with for example Webpack Bundle Analyzer like this: npm install -g webpack-bundle-analyzer Then add the following Npm run scripts to package.json:

    "buildwithstats": "ng b --sourceMap --prod --stats-json",
    "analyze": "webpack-bundle-analyzer --port 9901 dist/stats.json",

Now we have an interactive TreeMap view we can zoom into and see what is taking up space in our bundle!

Searching for 'Angularized values' in MS Sql Server DB

The following query can be used to look for 'Angularized values' in MS Sql Server DB.

DECLARE @sql nvarchar(1024)
DECLARE @column_name varchar(200)
DECLARE @table_name varchar(200)
DECLARE @sp_out varchar(2048)
DECLARE @x int

create table #tmp(sp_out varchar(2048), table_name varchar(255), column_name varchar(2048), id uniqueidentifier)
   
DECLARE tn_cursor CURSOR FOR
SELECT TABLE_NAME
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.tables

open tn_cursor 
FETCH NEXT FROM tn_cursor
INTO @table_name

WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0    
BEGIN   
                print @table_name

                DECLARE cn_cursor CURSOR FOR
                SELECT COLUMN_NAME
                FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.columns
                WHERE TABLE_NAME = @table_name

                open cn_cursor 
                FETCH NEXT FROM cn_cursor
                INTO @column_name

                WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0    
                BEGIN   
                                FETCH NEXT FROM cn_cursor
                                INTO @column_name

                                --print @column_name

                                set @sql = 
                                N'insert into #tmp SELECT TOP (1000) ' + @column_name + ', ''' + @table_name + ''', ''' + @column_name + ''', Id' +
                                N' FROM [dbo].[' + @table_name + N']' +
                                N' WHERE ' + @column_name + N' like ''%? % ?%'''
                
                                --print @sql
                                exec sp_executesql @sql
                END

                CLOSE cn_cursor;    
                DEALLOCATE cn_cursor; 

                FETCH NEXT FROM tn_cursor
                INTO @table_name
END

CLOSE tn_cursor;    
DEALLOCATE tn_cursor; 

select * from  #tmp
drop table #tmp

This query will look for all fields in the DB with the contents with pattern '%? % %?' that matches Angularized values. An Angularized value is generated by AngularJs when autogenerated values are made when the contents of a drop down does not match the HTML.

Font Awesome 5 in Angular 8

Font Awesome 5 in Angular 8 based app! Here is how I did it, I first import the Font awesome packages into the app module:

import { fas } from '@fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons';
import { far } from '@fortawesome/free-regular-svg-icons';
import { fab } from '@fortawesome/free-brands-svg-icons';
import { FontAwesomeModule } from '@fortawesome/angular-fontawesome';
import { library } from '@fortawesome/fontawesome-svg-core';
Importing the FontAwesomeModule also into the imports section.

Add the following in to your constructor of app module:

 constructor(){
    library.add(fab, far, fas);
  }

Now you can reference the Font Awesome icons from inside any component like in this markup example:

   <div class="crop"
     (click)="onClick()"
     [style.width.px]="starWidth"
     [title]="rating">
  <div style="width: 75px">
    <span><fa-icon [icon]="['far', 'star']"></fa-icon></span>
    <span><fa-icon [icon]="['far', 'star']"></fa-icon></span>
    <span><fa-icon [icon]="['far', 'star']"></fa-icon></span>
    <span><fa-icon [icon]="['far', 'star']"></fa-icon></span>
    <span><fa-icon [icon]="['far', 'star']"></fa-icon></span>
  </div>
</div>

Note that if you do not use the solid icons from the 'fas' library, you must specify the type of Font Awesome icon library, such as 'far' for the regular icons. I ended up with using the following npm packages: "@fortawesome/angular-fontawesome": "^0.3.0", "@fortawesome/fontawesome-svg-core": "^1.2.21", "@fortawesome/free-brands-svg-icons": "^5.10.1", "@fortawesome/free-regular-svg-icons": "^5.10.1", "@fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons": "^5.10.1", Note: I did a downgrade to version 0.3.0 of the angular-fontawesome package. Tested out in Angular 8. Note that adding the entire library is not suggested in most cases, as this will increase the bundle size Webpack builds up. Instead, add the necessary icons one by one. However, in a development period, it is neat to have all the (Free) icons from Font Awesome readily available until it is production/deploying time! Happy Angular 8 coding!

Example of a shared module you can set up to import in Angular 8 supporting Font Awesome five is below:

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { CommonModule } from '@angular/common';
import { StarComponent } from "src/app/shared/star.component";
import { FormsModule } from "@angular/forms";
import { fas } from '@fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons';
import { far } from '@fortawesome/free-regular-svg-icons';
import { fab } from '@fortawesome/free-brands-svg-icons';
import { library } from '@fortawesome/fontawesome-svg-core';
import { FontAwesomeModule } from '@fortawesome/angular-fontawesome';

@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    StarComponent
  ],
  imports: [
    CommonModule,
    FontAwesomeModule
  ],
  exports: [
   StarComponent,
   CommonModule,
   FormsModule,
   FontAwesomeModule,
  ]
})
export class SharedModule {

  constructor () {
    library.add(fab, far, fas);
  }

}

Angular - Displaying localized currency - setting up locale to Norwegian (example)

This article will quickly describe how we can set up a locale for Angular; to display for example currency in a correct manner. First off we import the necessary locale setup in our main module, e.g. app.module.ts :

import { NgModule, LOCALE_ID } from '@angular/core';
import { registerLocaleData } from '@angular/common';
import  localeNor from '@angular/common/locales/nb';
import  localeNorExtra from '@angular/common/locales/nb';

Note here that this setup targets Norwegian locale. You can see a list of these locales in the parent folder of this url: https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/master/packages/common/locales/nb.ts We also import the 'extra' information for locales - the Norwegian locale here. The parent folder show the available locales in this url: https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/master/packages/common/locales/extra/nb.ts Then we set up the Norwegian locale using the method registerLocaleData below the imports of our app module with a call to the method. registerLocaleData(localeNor, 'no', localeNorExtra); We also set up the providers for the app module to use the 'no' variable for LOCALE_ID A complete sample of the app module looks like this then:

import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { NgModule, LOCALE_ID } from '@angular/core';
import { registerLocaleData } from '@angular/common';
import  localeNor from '@angular/common/locales/nb';
import  localeNorExtra from '@angular/common/locales/nb';
import { FormsModule } from '@angular/forms';
import { RouterModule } from '@angular/router';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import { ProductListComponent } from "src/app/products/product-list.component";
import { WelcomeComponent } from "src/app/home/welcome.component";

registerLocaleData(localeNor, 'no', localeNorExtra);

@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    AppComponent,
    ProductListComponent,
  ],
  providers: [
    {provide: LOCALE_ID, useValue: 'no'
  ],
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    FormsModule,
    RouterModule.forRoot([
      { path: '', component: AppComponent }

    ])
  ],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }

An example of using the locale setup is to be observed in the use of the pipe called currency. Sample markup:

  <td>{{ product.productCode | lowercase }}</td>
            <td>{{ product.releaseDate }}</td>
            <td>{{ product.price  | currency:'NOK':'symbol':'1.2-2' }}</td>
            <td>

Note the syntax here: Inside the interpolation expression in Angular with {{ My_Expression }} as the notation we pipe with the '|' sign to the currency pipe then we add a ':' sign and the 'NOK' denotes the Norwegian currency. If we want 'øre' (Norwegian cents) afterwards, we can add that outside the interpolation expression. Note that we also add another ':' sign and then 'symbol':'1.2-2' This states that we show at least one digit for the integer part and between 2 and 2 decimals (i.e. just 2 decimals please). This shows how we can set up the standard locale of an Angular app. Supporting multiple aplications should then be a matter of importing additional locales for Angular and have some way of switching between locales. Probably it is best to be sure to usually addition both the locale and the 'locale extra' when setting this up.

Misc OpenId Connect setup for Angular 8

This article presents some sample basic setup for OpenId Connect setup for Angular 8, targeting the npm library openid-client and Thinktecture IdentityServer 4 as the STS. The following AutService sets up the UserManager first on the client side. I must mention here that the setup ended up quite similar to the setup I did for an ASP.NET Core backend API I did for a React frontend SPA.

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { HttpClient } from '@angular/common/http';
import { catchError } from 'rxjs/operators';
import { UserManager, User, WebStorageStateStore, Log } from 'oidc-client';
import { Constants } from '../constants';
import { Utils } from './utils';
import { AuthContext } from '../model/auth-context';

@Injectable()
export class AuthService {
  private _userManager: UserManager;
  private _user: User;
  authContext: AuthContext;

  constructor(private httpClient: HttpClient) {
    Log.logger = console;
    const config = {
      authority: Constants.stsAuthority,
      client_id: Constants.clientId,
      redirect_uri: `${Constants.clientRoot}assets/oidc-login-redirect.html`,
      scope: 'openid projects-api profile',
      response_type: 'id_token token',
      post_logout_redirect_uri: `${Constants.clientRoot}?postLogout=true`,
      userStore: new WebStorageStateStore({ store: window.localStorage }),
      automaticSilentRenew: true,
      silent_redirect_uri: `${Constants.clientRoot}assets/silent-redirect.html`
    };
    this._userManager = new UserManager(config);
    this._userManager.getUser().then(user => {
      if (user && !user.expired) {
        this._user = user;
        this.loadSecurityContext();
      }
    });
    this._userManager.events.addUserLoaded(args => {
      this._userManager.getUser().then(user => {
        this._user = user;
        this.loadSecurityContext();
      });
    });
  }

  login(): Promise<any> {
    console.log('Inside the new auth service!');
    return this._userManager.signinRedirect();
  }

  logout(): Promise<any> {
    return this._userManager.signoutRedirect();
  }

  isLoggedIn(): boolean {
    return this._user && this._user.access_token && !this._user.expired;
  }

  getAccessToken(): string {
    return this._user ? this._user.access_token : '';
  }

  signoutRedirectCallback(): Promise<any> {
    return this._userManager.signoutRedirectCallback();
  }

  loadSecurityContext() {
    this.httpClient.get<AuthContext>(`${Constants.apiRoot}Account/AuthContext`).subscribe(context => {
      this.authContext = context;
    }, error => console.error(Utils.formatError(error)));
  }
}

The login redirect file oidc-login-redirect.html goes into the assets folder of Angular 8 project.

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/oidc-client/1.4.1/oidc-client.min.js"></script>
<script>
  var config = {
    userStore: new Oidc.WebStorageStateStore({ store: window.localStorage })
  };
  var mgr = new Oidc.UserManager(config);
  mgr.signinRedirectCallback().then(() => {
        window.history.replaceState({},
            window.document.title,
            window.location.origin);
        window.location = "/";
    }, error => {
        console.error(error);
    });

</script>

The silent redirect that automatically renews the token is in the file silent-redirect.html in the assets folder:

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/oidc-client/1.5.1/oidc-client.min.js"></script>
<script>
  var config = {
    userStore: new Oidc.WebStorageStateStore({ store: window.localStorage })
  };
new Oidc.UserManager(config).signinSilentCallback()
        .catch((err) => {
            console.log(err);
        });

</script>

Then, the config in the ThinkTecture IdentityServer looks somewhat like this:

using System.Collections.Generic;
using IdentityServer4;
using IdentityServer4.Models;

namespace SecuringAngularApps.STS
{
    public class Config
    {
        public static IEnumerable<ApiResource> GetApiResources()
        {
            return new List<ApiResource>
            {
                new ApiResource("projects-api", "Projects API")
            };
        }

        public static IEnumerable<Client> GetClients()
        {
            return new List<Client>
            {
                new Client
                {
                    ClientId = "spa-client",
                    ClientName = "Projects SPA",
                    AllowedGrantTypes = GrantTypes.Implicit,
                    AllowAccessTokensViaBrowser = true,
                    RequireConsent = false,

                    RedirectUris =           { "http://localhost:4200/assets/oidc-login-redirect.html","http://localhost:4200/assets/silent-redirect.html" },
                    PostLogoutRedirectUris = { "http://localhost:4200/?postLogout=true" },
                    AllowedCorsOrigins =     { "http://localhost:4200/" },

                    AllowedScopes =
                    {
                        IdentityServerConstants.StandardScopes.OpenId,
                        IdentityServerConstants.StandardScopes.Profile,
                        "projects-api"
                    },
                    IdentityTokenLifetime=120,
                    AccessTokenLifetime=120

                },
                new Client
                {
                    ClientId = "mvc",
                    ClientName = "MVC Client",
                    AllowedGrantTypes = GrantTypes.HybridAndClientCredentials,

                    ClientSecrets =
                    {
                        new Secret("secret".Sha256())
                    },

                    RedirectUris           = { "http://localhost:4201/signin-oidc" },
                    PostLogoutRedirectUris = { "http://localhost:4201/signout-callback-oidc" },

                    AllowedScopes =
                    {
                        IdentityServerConstants.StandardScopes.OpenId,
                        IdentityServerConstants.StandardScopes.Profile
                    },
                    AllowOfflineAccess = true

                }
            };
        }

        public static IEnumerable<IdentityResource> GetIdentityResources()
            {
                return new List<IdentityResource>
            {
                new IdentityResources.OpenId(),
                new IdentityResources.Profile(),
            };
            }
        }
    }

And in the API backend we wire up the STS like this in Asp.net Core in the Startup.cs:

using System;
using System.Linq;
using SecuringAngularApps.STS.Data;
using SecuringAngularApps.STS.Models;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Builder;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity;
using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration;
using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.OpenIdConnect;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.Cookies;
using IdentityServer4.Services;
using SecuringAngularApps.STS.Quickstart.Account;

namespace SecuringAngularApps.STS
{
    public class Startup
    {
        public IConfiguration Configuration { get; }
        public IHostingEnvironment Environment { get; }

        public Startup(IConfiguration configuration, IHostingEnvironment environment)
        {
            Configuration = configuration;
            Environment = environment;
        }

        public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
        {
            services.AddDbContext<ApplicationDbContext>(options =>
                options.UseSqlServer(Configuration.GetConnectionString("DefaultConnection")));

            services.AddIdentity<ApplicationUser, IdentityRole>()
                .AddEntityFrameworkStores<ApplicationDbContext>()
                .AddDefaultTokenProviders();

            services.AddCors(options =>
            {
                options.AddPolicy("CorsPolicy", corsBuilder =>
                {
                    corsBuilder.AllowAnyHeader()
                    .AllowAnyMethod()
                    .AllowAnyOrigin()
                    .AllowCredentials();
                });
            });
            services.AddTransient<IProfileService, CustomProfileService>();

            services.AddMvc();

            var builder = services.AddIdentityServer(options =>
                {
                    options.Events.RaiseErrorEvents = true;
                    options.Events.RaiseInformationEvents = true;
                    options.Events.RaiseFailureEvents = true;
                    options.Events.RaiseSuccessEvents = true;
                })
                .AddInMemoryIdentityResources(Config.GetIdentityResources())
                .AddInMemoryApiResources(Config.GetApiResources())
                .AddInMemoryClients(Config.GetClients())
                .AddAspNetIdentity<ApplicationUser>()
                .AddProfileService<CustomProfileService>();


            if (Environment.IsDevelopment())
            {
                builder.AddDeveloperSigningCredential();
            }
            else
            {
                throw new Exception("need to configure key material");
            }
        }

        public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env)
        {
            if (env.IsDevelopment())
            {
                app.UseDeveloperExceptionPage();
                app.UseDatabaseErrorPage();
            }
            else
            {
                app.UseExceptionHandler("/Home/Error");
            }

            app.UseStaticFiles();
            app.UseCors("CorsPolicy");

            app.UseIdentityServer();
            app.UseMvcWithDefaultRoute();
        }
    }
}

Intellisense of spy objects (mocks) in Jasmin tests

When creating unit tests or integration tests for Angular 8, we often use mocking - such as mocking services. We sometimes want to fix up the intellisense of our mocks when we create a spy object using Jasmine (of which Angular tests most often are written in - the 'NUnit for Javascript world'). Here is how we can achieve that. First off, create a new file called Spied.ts and add this Typescript:

export type Spied<T> = {
  [Method in keyof T]: jasmine.Spy;
};

A little bit of terminology here for .NET coders concerning Javascript tests:

• Spy object : Mock object
• Using .and.returnValue(of(somedata)) : Equal to using Moq Setup method to return some data for given method
• Expect in Jasmin : Similar to Assert in MSTest and NUnit.

This builds a mapped type that maps to a jasmine.Spy object, see the explanation of a mapped type here: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/release-notes/typescript-2-1.html#mapped-types We now can declare our mock objects as a 'Spied' object like this example:

let mockHeroService: Spied<HeroService>
mockHeroService = jasmine.createSpyObj(['getHeroes', 'addHero', 'deleteHero']);

The great thing about this then is that we now have decent Intellisense in place! Look at this video from VsCode as proof! To handle dependency injection scenarios do like in this example:

import { VoterService, ISession } from "src/app/events";
import { of } from "rxjs";
import { Spied } from "src/app/common/Spied";
import { HttpClient } from "@angular/common/http";

describe('VoterService', () => {
  let voterService: VoterService;
  let mockHttp: Spied<HttpClient>;

  beforeEach(() => {
    mockHttp = <Spied<HttpClient>>jasmine.createSpyObj('mockHttp', ['delete', 'post']);
    voterService = new VoterService(mockHttp);
    console.log('Inside beforeEach');
  });

  describe('deleteVoter', () => {

    it('should remove the voter from the list of voters', () => {
      var session = { id: 6, name: "John", voters: ["joe", "john"] };
      mockHttp.delete.and.returnValue(of(false));
      console.log(voterService);

      voterService.deleteVoter(3, <ISession>session, "joe");
      expect(session.voters.length).toBe(1);
    });

  });

});

We can then adjust our constructor to include the '| any' modifier of the injected parameter:

import { Injectable, Inject } from '@angular/core';
import { ISession } from '../shared';
import { HttpClient, HttpHeaders } from '@angular/common/http';
import { Observable, of } from 'rxjs';
import { catchError } from 'rxjs/operators';

@Injectable()
export class VoterService {
  constructor(@Inject(HttpClient) private http: HttpClient | any) {


  }

..

Note that we here adjust the constructor to not only accept the concrete class HttpClient but also 'any' allowing us to inject the mock object. We could alter this and introduce an interface for example instead for a more elegant approach. In case you get build errors like when running ng build stating that 'jasmine' could not be found, try out this: Inside tsconfig.json, explicitly add 'jasmine' for your 'types' like this:

{
  "compileOnSave": false,
  "compilerOptions": {
    "baseUrl": "./",
    "outDir": "./dist/out-tsc",
    "sourceMap": true,
    "declaration": false,
    "downlevelIteration": true,
    "experimentalDecorators": true,
    "module": "esnext",
    "moduleResolution": "node",
    "importHelpers": true,
    "target": "es2015",
    "types": [ "jasmine" ],
    "typeRoots": [
      "node_modules/@types"
    ],
    "lib": [
      "es2018",
      "dom"
    ]
  },
  "angularCompilerOptions": {
    "fullTemplateTypeCheck": true,
    "strictInjectionParameters": true
  }
}

And then put the single line on top to import jasmine like this in Spied.ts:

import 'jasmine';

Consistency guard of enums used in Entity Framework

This is a consistency guard for enums in Entity Framework. It is a mechanism for protecting an entity in Entity Framework or just EF, in case an enum value was loaded from the database with an illeagal value. An illeagal enum value would be any value of an enum that cannot be parsed into an enum. We use Enum.IsDefined method (at first running Convert.ChangeType) to check if the value for the enum is leagal or not. We define a helper class BrokenEnumValue to contain our metadata about enum values that are illeagal or 'broken'. The rest of the code in this article goes into the DbContext class (Or ObjectContext would also work) that EF uses. The ObjectMaterialized event is added in the constructor for example.

            var objectContext = ((IObjectContextAdapter) this).ObjectContext;
            _log = (ILog) AutofacHostFactory.Container.Resolve(typeof(ILog));
            objectContext.ObjectMaterialized += ObjectContext_ObjectMaterialized;

Our helper POCO:

    public class BrokenEnumValue
    {
        public string PropertyName { get; set; }
        public string PropertyTypeName { get; set; }
        public Guid? SchemaGuid { get; set; }
        public string OldValue { get; set; }
        public string CorrectedValue { get; set; }

        public override string ToString()
        {
            return $"{PropertyName} {PropertyTypeName} {SchemaGuid} {OldValue} {CorrectedValue}";
        }
    }

        private void ObjectContext_ObjectMaterialized(object sender, ObjectMaterializedEventArgs e)
        {
            var brokenEnumProperties = FixBrokenEnumProperties(e.Entity);
            if (brokenEnumProperties.Any())
            {
                Type objType = e.Entity.GetType();
                var idProperty = objType.GetProperty("Id");
                Guid? schemaGuid = idProperty?.GetValue(e.Entity, null) as Guid?;
                foreach (var brokenEnum in brokenEnumProperties)
                    brokenEnum.SchemaGuid = schemaGuid;
                string brokenEnumsInfo = string.Join(" ", brokenEnumProperties.Select(b => b.ToString()).ToArray());
                _log.WriteWarning($"Detected broken enum propert(ies) in entity and resolved them to default value if available in enum (None): {brokenEnumsInfo}");
            }
        }

           public IList<BrokenEnumValue> FixBrokenEnumProperties(object obj)
        {
            var list = new List<BrokenEnumValue>();
            try
            {
                if (obj == null) return list;
       
                PropertyInfo[] properties = obj.GetType().GetProperties();
                foreach (PropertyInfo property in properties)
                {
                    if (property.GetIndexParameters()?.Any() == true)
                        continue; //skip indexer properties
                    if (property.PropertyType.IsArray)
                    {
                        Array a = (Array) property.GetValue(obj);
                        for (int i = 0; i < a.Length; i++)
                        {
                            object o = a.GetValue(i);
                            list.AddRange(FixBrokenEnumProperties(o));
                        }
                        continue; //continue to next iteration
                    }
                    object propValue = property.GetValue(obj, null);
                    var elems = propValue as IList;
                    if (elems != null)
                    {
                        foreach (var item in elems)
                        {
                            list.AddRange(FixBrokenEnumProperties(item));
                        }
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        if (property.PropertyType.IsEnum && !IsEnumDefined(propValue, property.PropertyType))
                        {
                            var correctedValue = GetDefaultEnumValue(propValue, property.PropertyType);
                            list.Add(new BrokenEnumValue
                            {
                                CorrectedValue = correctedValue?.ToString(),
                                OldValue = propValue?.ToString(),
                                PropertyName = property.Name,
                                PropertyTypeName = property.PropertyType.FullName,
                            });
                            property.SetValue(obj, correctedValue);
                            
                        }
                        if (property.PropertyType.IsClass && (property.PropertyType.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(DataContractAttribute))?.Any() == true)
                                                          && !(property.PropertyType == typeof(string)) && !property.PropertyType.IsValueType)
                        {
                            list.AddRange(FixBrokenEnumProperties(propValue));
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
            catch (Exception err)
            {
                _somelog.WriteError($"Expection occurred trying to fix broken enum properties: {err}");
            }
            return list;
        }

           private static T GetDefaultEnumValue<T>(T entity, Type propertyType)
           {
               foreach (var enumValue in propertyType.GetEnumValues())
               {
                   if (String.Compare(enumValue.ToString(), "None", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) == 0)
                   {
                       return (T)enumValue;
                   }
               }
               return entity;
           }

        private static bool IsEnumDefined(object entity, Type propertyType)
        {
            var castedValue = Convert.ChangeType(entity, propertyType);
            return Enum.IsDefined(propertyType, castedValue);
        }

With this guard, we can avoid that the entity does not load in case an illeagal value was loaded for a given enum. Note that our fallback is looking for the enum value mapping to the [None] enum member, so we fallback to the [None] enum value, if it exists. Mosts enum should have a [None] member mapping to the enum integer value 0. You can of course adjust the strategy used here. I believe such a consistency guard would be helpful for many applications using EF.

Slide-in animation of forms in Angular 8

This is a cool feature in Angular 8, the support of animations. First off, we define our animation in a Typescript file like for example a sliding in translation of the X-axis. app-animation.ts

import { trigger, animate, transition, style, group, query } from '@angular/animations';

export const slideInAnimation = trigger('slideInAnimation', [
  // Transition between any two states
  transition('* <=> *', [
    // Events to apply
    // Defined style and animation function to apply
    // Config object with optional set to true to handle when element not yet added to the DOM
    query(':enter, :leave', style({ position: 'fixed', width: '100%', zIndex: 2 }), { optional: true }),
    // group block executes in parallel
    group([
      query(':enter', [
        style({ transform: 'translateX(100%)' }),
        animate('0.5s ease-out', style({ transform: 'translateX(0%)' }))
      ], { optional: true }),
      query(':leave', [
        style({ transform: 'translateX(0%)' }),
        animate('0.5s ease-out', style({ transform: 'translateX(-100%)' }))
      ], { optional: true })
    ])
  ])
]);

In our app.component.ts, we import this animation slideInAnimation like this:

import { slideInAnimation } from './app.animation';
@Component({
  selector: 'pm-root',
  templateUrl: './app.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./app.component.css'],
  animations: [ slideInAnimation ]
})
export class AppComponent {
  pageTitle = 'SomeAcme Product Management';

Note the association of the slideInAnimation above. And in the app component template (app.component.html) we just declare a template variable for the router outlet and set it up to trigger on route activation.

<div class="container" [@slideInAnimation]="o.isActivated ? o.activatedRoute: ''">
  <router-outlet #o="outlet"></router-outlet>
</div>

This video shows the effect. Note that this is an excerpt from Deborah Kurata's course on Angular routing from Pluralsight. Video of this technique:

Angular 8 - Datepicker and timepicker

I have been looking at the ngx-bootstrap components for Angular lately. These components are very nice and similar to the components that Bootstrap provides, for Angular. I have tested it out with Angular 8. First off, we import the datepicker and time picker of this library like this: ng add ngx-bootstrap --components datepicker ng add ngx-bootstrap --components timepicker Inside your app.module.ts, you should see the two components imported:

import { BsDatepickerModule } from "ngx-bootstrap/datepicker";
import { TimepickerModule } from 'ngx-bootstrap/timepicker';

It is also included to the imports. My sample projects app.module.ts looks like this:

import { BrowserModule } from "@angular/platform-browser";
import { FormsModule } from "@angular/forms";
import { NgModule } from "@angular/core";
import { HttpClientModule } from "@angular/common/http";
import { AppComponent } from "./app.component";
import { UserSettingsFormComponent } from "./user-settings-form/user-settings-form.component";
import { AppFocusDirective } from "./data/app-focus.directive";
import { ButtonsModule } from "ngx-bootstrap/buttons";
import { BsDatepickerModule } from "ngx-bootstrap/datepicker";
import { BsLocaleService } from 'ngx-bootstrap/datepicker';
import { BrowserAnimationsModule } from "@angular/platform-browser/animations";
import { defineLocale } from "ngx-bootstrap/chronos";
import { nbLocale } from "ngx-bootstrap/locale";
import { TimepickerModule, TimepickerConfig } from 'ngx-bootstrap/timepicker';
import { getTimepickerConfig  } from './TimepickerConfig';

defineLocale("nb", nbLocale);

@NgModule({
  declarations: [AppComponent, UserSettingsFormComponent, AppFocusDirective],
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    FormsModule,
    HttpClientModule,
    ButtonsModule.forRoot(),
    BsDatepickerModule.forRoot(),
    BrowserAnimationsModule,
    TimepickerModule.forRoot()
  ],
  providers: [ BsLocaleService,
   { provide: TimepickerConfig, useFactory: getTimepickerConfig }
  ],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule {

  constructor(private bsLocaleService: BsLocaleService) {
    this.bsLocaleService.use('nb');
  }
}

Observe the localization adjustments I have included here, for Norwegian localization of the date picker. I also include a custom factory function for setting up the time picker to not show the meridian button, i.e. show a 24 hours format of the time.

import { TimepickerConfig } from "ngx-bootstrap/timepicker";

// such override allows to keep some initial values

export function getTimepickerConfig(): TimepickerConfig {
  return Object.assign(new TimepickerConfig(), {
    hourStep: 2,
    minuteStep: 5,
    showMeridian: false,
    readonlyInput: false,
    mousewheel: true,
    showMinutes: true,
    showSeconds: false
  });
}

If you want to test out the adjustments I made, the Github repo is available here: https://github.com/toreaurstadboss/Angular8FormsNgxBootstrapTesting